Digital Signage?

[SPARTAN sui]

Hello, I've been tasked with finding a weather widget for our campus digital signage. I was wondering if YoWindow had any future plans to release a digital signage package? Since I started almost a year ago I've been tasked to manage our digital signage, when I started it was just a simple PowerPoint, now we're looking at displaying more engaging content and I'm the one to come up with a solution. Most of our content will still be presented with a PowerPoint presentation, however I'd like to offer a weather forecast along side the PowerPoint. Possibly a five day forecast that runs for a few minutes on every hour. I've configured some open source digital signage software (Xibo) with our setup, however I'm having issues coming up with a weather widget that will work for us.

Hope to hear back from someone!

[hermanz]

Hi spartaan
if I understand is this a presentation monitor. Like i have posted : http://yowindow.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=2963
Connect a PC with a yowindow screensaver.

Search on the forum for a final solution.

gr.
Herman

[SPARTAN sui]

That looks great! Hmm, you actually gave me an idea.

My setup is a little different than just a computer connected to a TV. We have the Xibo server, where I can schedule and configure what is displayed on each TV, and than the players, or clients, that are connect to each TV. These computers are simply running Windows 7 with Xibo client software. We have 5 TVs around campus that I manage.

I'm thinking I may be able to have my PowerPoint play for the allotted time, then it will switch to a new full screen website (Xibo supports embedded HTML) which will have the YoWindow widget with a picture of our campus play for 5-10 minutes or so. I think that just might work.

[seedogg]

I too am a coordinator of a digital signage network at my place of employment. I want to display YoWindow immediately in fullscreen without having to click to make it fullscreen. Is there a way to do this?

[ikarus1969]

I too am a coordinator of a digital signage network at my place of employment. I want to display YoWindow immediately in fullscreen without having to click to make it fullscreen. Is there a way to do this?

I don't know if there's a "hidden" Parameter to YoWindow to do this, so i found this solution for me:

i call YoWindow.exe with the "/screenSaver" option. That's all.
For this i created a very little batch-file - see below - placed it on my desktop and double-click it every time i want to start YoWindow immediately in fullscreen-mode:

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start [Path to the YoWindow executable]\yowindow.exe /screenSaver

The only thing is: you can't change to a different location. But that's ok for me

The known command-line parameters for YoWindow are:

• /debug -> to start YoWindow in debug-mode
• /screenSaver -> to start YoWindow with "screenSaver" role
• /mt -> to start YoWindow minimized to tray

You get this list by starting YoWindow.exe with the parameter "/?"

Maybe, if you ask Pavel, he would add a command-line parameter like "/fullScreen" to start YoWindow in full-screen-mode? Please place such a request in the "Suggestions" sub-forum - thanks!