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Visio-Display: a self-hosted digital signage platform with one-command deployment (github.com)

submitted 1 hour ago by woofix@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi everyone,

I have been developing Visio-Display, a GPL-3.0 self-hosted digital signage platform for centrally managing multiple Linux kiosk screens.

What started as a way to display images and videos has grown into a broader operational platform with:

Independent screens, playlists, ordering, and display durations
Image, video, and PDF media management
Date and time scheduling
Temporary priority campaigns
A built-in 16:9 announcement editor
QR code generation
Remote Linux kiosk deployment over SSH
Client heartbeats, online status, screenshots, and system information
Remote restart, shutdown, reinstallation, and updates
Users, roles, permissions, and activity logs
Manual and scheduled backups, web restoration, and optional SMB copies

Clients keep their configuration and heartbeat token locally. If a screen loses power or network connectivity, it is simply marked offline. When it becomes available again, its systemd service resumes sending heartbeats and the server recognizes the same client without manual re-pairing.

The server uses Python, Flask, Gunicorn, PostgreSQL, Redis/RQ, and Docker Compose.

A guided installer can deploy the server stack with one command:

bash <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/woofix/visio_display/main/server-install.sh)

Source code: https://github.com/woofix/visio_display

More detailed technical overview: https://dev.to/woofix/visio-display-building-a-self-hosted-digital-signage-platform-1ph7

I use ChatGPT/Codex as an assistant for some code suggestions, reviews, tests, and documentation, while I maintain the architecture, deployments, and validation of the running project.

Feedback, testing, bug reports, and contributions are welcome. Which environments or hardware platforms would you test next?

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