Hi Xibo community and developers,
We are a small marine station trying to move away from a overly expensive crapy digital signage system to the so far so good xibo system with an on site server (all by ourselves ;)). We are re-using the android stick that were provided with the previous system, installed the trial version and ran some tests. Xibo is incredible! . Installation of ther server was easy and the wokflow is much easier than the previous system, really like the campaign. We have only some minor problems:
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I don’t know how to set transparent region suitable for the android client. On the screenshot and preview, the regions are transparent but when it is rendered on the display, through the android client, they are not. Same for the weather module. I set its appearance to “5 day with current day in big circle”, the big circle do not appear and the bg is all white. Again, the flip clock is all white (adobe flash is installed) and html5 clocks have their background white. Is it a bug? Is it fixable?
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Perhaps related: png images, I think with an alpha channel, appear very blurred on the display, not on the preview. Any tricks? We want to use a big png as background with our university logo and colors, and regions containing png showing figures from our research, but it is very bad rendered. I will try with jpg in the mean time, see if it is better.
Small wish, but they are easily worked around:
- Overlapping regions, it would allow to add dynamic annotations or “animations” on a figure
- Support for libreoffice impress, there is an android viewer available. it would be good to ask other research staff to produce their own content.
- Possibility to add a layout on other layout during schedule to allow “flash news ribbon” on the bottom of the screen when needed, BBC style.
Really enjoying xibo, and because the translation to japanese is not complete, I will recover my launchpad account and start working on it.
Cheers
Sylvain