pisignage-server

Server to manage piSignage players in a LAN or Private Network

New version 0.9.0 has been released!

Upgrading to 0.9.0 from existing versions

1. git pull origin master and apply your code changes if any
2. start the pisignage-server and go to url localhost:3000
3. Enter the account name of yours at pisignage.com
4. Default authentication credentials for player webUI has been changed to pi:pi
5. New settings tab has been added for settings instead of config/env/all.js file
6. New software upgrades are automatically pulled to the server and you can upgrade from the local server itself
7. Upload new licenses bought to the local server so that they are automatically installed in the pi
8. Authentication has been added to the server UI which can be changed under settings (default pi:pi)

Getting Started

1.Install mongodb

• Ubuntu

     sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv 7F0CEB10
     
     echo "deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu "$(lsb_release -sc)"/mongodb-org/3.0 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.0.list
     
     sudo apt-get update
     
     sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org
  

  check for /data/db directory , If not found create using sudo mkdir -p /data/db and change the owner if needed using sudo chown USERNAME /data/db

• CentOS

     
     echo -e "[mongodb-org-2.6] \nname=MongoDB 2.6 Repository \nbaseurl=http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/redhat/os/x86_64/ \ngpgcheck=0 \nenabled=1" | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb-org-2.6.repo 
     
     sudo yum install -y mongodb-org
    
     
  

  check for /data/db directory , If not found create using sudo mkdir -p /data/db and and change the owner if needed using sudo chown USERNAME /data/db

• Mac

  Please use Homebrew

     brew update
     
     brew install mongodb
  

  check for /data/db directory , If not found create using sudo mkdir -p /data/db and and change the owner if needed using sudo chown USERNAME /data/db

• Windows

  Please refere here

For More info please refer here

2.Install node.js and npm

In some installations there is another program called node, be sure to install nodejs. If other node program is laready installed you can find out by node --version command, it will not output anything. Uninstall the node program in that case

• Ubuntu

     curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_0.12 | sudo bash -
     
     sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
  

• CentOS

     sudo yum install -y epel-release
             
     sudo yum install -y nodejs
     
     sudo yum install -y npm
     
     sudo yum install -y git
  

• Mac

     brew install node
  

  You may be asked to run above command as super user. If asked please do so.

• Windows

  get .msi from here

• For more info on node installation, please refer here

3. Install ffmpeg using below steps OR download from here

   • Ubuntu

     sudo apt-get update
     
     sudo apt-get -y --force-yes install autoconf automake build-essential libass-dev libfreetype6-dev \
     libsdl1.2-dev libtheora-dev libtool libva-dev libvdpau-dev libvorbis-dev libxcb1-dev libxcb-shm0-dev \
     libxcb-xfixes0-dev pkg-config texi2html zlib1g-dev
     
     mkdir ~/ffmpeg_sources
     cd  ~/ffmpeg_sources
     
     sudo apt-get install yasm
     
     sudo apt-get install libx264-dev
     
     cd  ~/ffmpeg_sources
     wget -O fdk-aac.tar.gz https://github.com/mstorsjo/fdk-aac/tarball/master
     tar xzvf fdk-aac.tar.gz
     cd mstorsjo-fdk-aac*
     autoreconf -fiv
     ./configure --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" --disable-shared
     make
     make install
     make distclean
     
     cd  ~/ffmpeg_sources
     wget http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-snapshot.tar.bz2
     tar xjvf ffmpeg-snapshot.tar.bz2
     cd ffmpeg
     PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$HOME/ffmpeg_build/lib/pkgconfig" ./configure \
     >   --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" \
     >   --pkg-config-flags="--static" \
     >   --extra-cflags="-I$HOME/ffmpeg_build/include" \
     >   --extra-ldflags="-L$HOME/ffmpeg_build/lib" \
     >   --bindir="$HOME/bin" \
     >   --enable-gpl \
     >   --enable-libass \
     >   --enable-libfdk-aac \
     >   --enable-libfreetype \
     >   --enable-libtheora \
     >   --enable-libvorbis \
     >   --enable-libx264 \
     >   --enable-nonfree
     PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" make
     make install
     make distclean
     hash -r
     

     Create a symboloic for ffprobe and ffmpeg (could be in /usr/local/bin or ~/bin)

     
     sudo ln -s ~/bin/ffmpeg /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg  (or the directory where ffmpeg/ffprobe programs are created)
     sudo ln -s ~/bin/ffprobe /usr/local/bin/ffprobe  (or the directory where ffmpeg/ffprobe programs are created)
     
     

   • Mac

     brew install ffmpeg
     

     You may be asked to run above command as root user

4.Install imagemagik

• Ubuntu

  sudo apt-get install imagemagick
  

• Mac

  brew install imagemagick
  

5.Clone this reporsitory and run follwing commands

 git clone https://github.com/colloqi/pisignage-server 
 
 cd pisignage-server
 
 npm install

6.Currently network port is configured as 3000 in local server. Modify in the file config/env/development.js for the port

7.Run node server with sudo node server.js

8.Open Chrome browser and check at http://localhost:3000 OR http://[your-ip]:3000 (ex: 192.168.1.30:3000, 10.50.16.110:3000)

9.Do the following configuration before you start( New under 0.9.0 )
- Under settings, configure the username to be same as that of your signin username at pisignage.com
- Download the license files either from email or from pisignage.com, upload them to your local server under settings
- You can upgrade your players directly from your local server now - authentication is pi & pi, you can change this under settings

NOTE: Please make sure mongod process is running and /data/db owenership is changed to regular user. If not use, sudo chown -R your-username:user-group /data

Configure Pi

Please do not forget to give PORT number of server (default 3000)

1. Download the pisignage player software here

2. Once installed and Powered-ON Configure admin and media server to your local address and port using one of the below methods

   a. Using the webUI of the player at http://[player IP]:8000/settings

   b. Connect Keyboard and press Ctrl-N or F6

   • Change config and media server to http://[your server ip]:port (ex: 192.168.1.30:3000, 10.50.16.110:3000)
   • Open terminal ctrl+Alt+ t and delete any existing _config.json and _settings.json file from /home/pi/piSignagePro/config directory

   c. Connect through ssh

   • Edit /home/pi/piSignagePro/package.json for admin and media server configuration
   • delete any existing _config.json and _settings.json file from /home/pi/piSignagePro/config directory

Features

1.Player management
- Auto discovery of players in a network
- Monitor Players

2.Group management - create groups and assign players to groups
- Display settings - 1080p/720p and landscape or portrait mode
- Deploy default playlist, scheduled playlists and advt playlist
- Assign Players to Groups

3.Assets Management
- Upload assets (video,mp3,html/zip,images, links, google calendar feed)
- Videos are automatically converted to mp4 using ffmpeg
- Thumbnail creation for videos and video metadat extraction to store in data base
- Add labels to manage assets
- View Details of files
- rename or delete files
- view assets locally
- auto label creation for uploaded time (in coming releases)

4.Playlist management
- Create, rename or delete playlists
- Assign assets & drag to change order
- assign duration for non-video assets
- select a layout to show (1,2a,2b,3a,3b,4,4b,2ab)
- Enable ticker & set Ticker text
- Make it ad playlist with configurable interval timer

5.Reports & Logs
- Not planned (Feature requests welcome)

Points to remember

1.angularjs-dropdown-multiselect is taken directly from
https://github.com/dotansimha/angularjs-dropdown-multiselect/pull/23/files instead of bower (for close-on-select to work)

2.Requires following programs to work
- ffmpeg >= 0.9 (in certain Os, these may have to be compiled since the package does not exist, please see the issue #9, it is not that scary!)
- ffprobe associated with ffmpeg needed to convert videos
- imagemagick creates thumbnails

3.Two directories are created by the program ../media and ../media/_thumbnails. If these directories are not created server won't work as expected (for e.g. thumbnails won't be created if _thumbnails directory does not exit). In that case create those directories manually.

You can also manage players using Browser(http://playerip:8000) or downloading Chrome app

The code is still in early release, Please raise an issue for problems or send an email to [email protected]