Raspberry Pi Implementation and Potential Development to Support Video Further

[mpaulmitchell]

I've been utilizing this system for signage for well over a year now. I was curious if any testing has been done on Raspberry Pi's when it comes to video support. We are not getting autoplay. Also curious if some additional development could be worth it to support video in other ways.

[cabal95]

Apologies for the late response.

We have not done any testing on Raspberry Pi's specifically. Usually videos not autoplaying is a browser setting. Many browsers now require you to manually grant permission to the site to autoplay videos. So you might check on that and make sure the browser is configured to allow auto play.

[Greyraid]

I'm super late to the party here but I just started using this digital signage system using Raspberry Pi 4Bs. It works very well. The Pis are just on Pi OS and I found how to auto launch some code on boot that launches Firefox in a kiosk mode. The videos auto play in Firefox just fine. I've written some instructions on how to set it up. The only issues I am having is that after a certain period of time (usually after a few hours) the videos will drop out of the slide show. The pictures will be there but the videos are not. Its almost like the network falls asleep and it ceases to stream the video links. Eventually it picks them back up though (after several minutes). I'm trying to search through network logs to see if connection is dropped. It might just be an issue in the network system itself and not in the Pis or digital signage system. Other than that the Pis work great and are simple to setup once you figure out how you want to run it.