Roll Your Own Digital Signage with an AppleTV: Intro
A while ago, I was charged with the task of looking into AppleTV’s usefullness as a digital signage solution. I knew what I wanted. I wanted the signs to be able to be updated offsite. I wanted to be able to browse to a website, login, upload images and edit their display order. It’d be cool if I could add a ticker at the bottom to pull headlines from our church’s website and maybe a clock and weather widget.
Well, I’ve accomplished this for the most part through the smashing together of a few off the shelf tools. Total cost for this project (minus the TV) was less than $400. Does it do everything? No. But it works, and it was fun. And maybe, with your help, it can be better.
Over the next couple of weeks I’ll be blogging about the steps I took to get to where this project is today, talking about ways it might be better, and ultimately putting the call out for some of you guys who are far smarter than I am to help make this a solution that any church can use with little effort or cost.
Stay tuned.
