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Screenly Pro is now in beta
A while ago I started hacking on Screenly, a digital signage solution for the Raspberry Pi. It has been a huge success with a lot of traction from the Raspberry Pi community.
The open source edition of Screenly (a.k.a. Screenly OSE) is an excellent tool if you want to setup a single sign. All you need is a Raspberry Pi ($35), some cables, and a monitor. You can literally be up and running in five minutes (not including the time it takes to flash Rasbian to the SD-card).
But what if you want to manage a number of nodes? Let’s say you have one hundred nodes that you want to manage from place? The answer to that is Screenly Pro. It’s based on the same platform as Screenly OSE, but it enables you to easily manage a large number of nodes. It also comes with a number of other improvements to make it easier to setup.
We already have a fully working beta of Screenly Pro running, but we are now taking ready to start letting new users in. If you’re interested, please sign up for the wait-list and we’ll let you know as soon as we’re ready to ship.
Interested to know about screenly pro. We have setup of about 100 display. Is screenly pro based on R-pi? I mean , does all my monitors (HDMI based) be connected to individual pi’s and from a central machine, I can push contents, schedule displays? Is that what you mean.
> Interested to know about screenly pro.
Great!
> We have setup of about 100 display.
> Is screenly pro based on R-pi?
Yes, Screenly Pro is an extension of Screenly OSE.
> I mean , does all my monitors (HDMI based) be
> connected to individual pi’s and from a central
> machine, I can push contents, schedule displays?
Yes, that’s exactly right.
Do you have any approximate date/schedule on Screenly Pro release?
We’ve let in a few beta-testers already and we’re hoping to be able to let more in in the next month or so.
We hope to have a production ready version of Screenly Pro during Q1 of this year.
Very nice! What will the price be?
Hi Eivind,
We haven’t decided on the final pricing for Screenly Pro yet, but it will be affordable for sure.
Hi there, verry verry intrested in the pro version, Will it be possible to upload images from a local media/pc and store them locally ? url is not that handy with images, for the rest perfect!
Regards,
Werner Busschots
Stebutech
Hi Werner,
Great! Screenly Pro already does caching of assets locally. This is one of the biggest differences between Screenly OSE and Screenly Pro.
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