Create signage for digital content based on web browser built with Laravel

• Your monitor only needs a webbrowser with javascript
• Use a Raspberry Pi 3B or higher or any other device with browser
• Not supported: Raspberry Zero 2W, Raspberry Pi 2B
• Memory amount depends on amount of slides, recommend at least 1GB
• Recommendation: FullPageOS

• Export Presentation as PDF and upload document
• Background processing starts and generates images from each page
• Create and register monitor
• Assign presentation to monitor, group or schedule
• Automatically display presentation on monitor
• Create schedules or groups to easily assign presentations to multiple devices

• LDAP-Login only
• Create, manage, delete devices
• Create, manage, delete groups
• Create, manage, delete presentations
• Create, manage, delete schedules
• Manage monitor settings (e.g Slide-duration)
• Discover url for easy mass deployment (IP recognition)
• Logging of actions in UI
• Rightmanagement

• Hides the cursor
• Force monitor reload on request
• Force monitor reload after x hours to prevent memory leak

• Edit docker-compose.yml to your needs

• Move env.example to .env
• Setup LDAP Connection

LDAP_LOGGING=true
LDAP_CONNECTION=default
LDAP_HOST=some.ldap.server
LDAP_USERNAME="CN=ro_mis,CN=Users,DC=ldap,DC=server"
LDAP_PASSWORD=
LDAP_PORT=636
LDAP_BASE_DN="dc=ldap,dc=server"
LDAP_TIMEOUT=15
LDAP_SSL=true
LDAP_TLS=false
LDAP_SASL=false
LDAP_ALLOWED_GROUP="CN=MIS,OU=Groups,DC=ldap,DC=server"

• Setup Database connection (Default: sqlite)

• Build image with docker build -t open-signage/open-signage:latest
• Edit "image" in docker-compose to your tagged image name
• Edit "environment" in docker-compose to your need
• sudo docker compose up
• sudo docker ps and grab container id for open-signage-app
• sudo docker exec ID php artisan migrate
• sudo docker exec ID php artisan db:seed

apt install php8.3 php8.3-imagick php8.3-mbstring php8.3-curl php8.3-ldap php8.3-bcmath

• php8.3
• npm
• composer
• php ldap extension
• php imagick extension
• ghostscript
• Replace imagick policy

sed -ri -e 's/<policy domain="resource" name="memory" value="256MiB"\/>/<policy domain="resource" name="memory" value="2GiB"\/>/g' /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml

sed -ri -e 's/<policy domain="resource" name="map" value="512MiB"\/>/<policy domain="resource" name="map" value="8GiB"\/>/g' /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml

sed -ri -e 's/<policy domain="resource" name="disk" value="1GiB"\/>/<policy domain="resource" name="disk" value="8GiB"\/>/g' /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml

• git clone https://github.com/bluecraank/open-signage
• cd open-signage
• composer install
• npm install
• npm run build
• php artisan migrate --force
• php artisan db:seed
• php artisan serve (Not recommended)
• Use apache/nginx/caddy and configure root directory to ./public

• If you use a reverse proxy to serve this app, set PROXY_URL in env file PROXY_URL="https://open-signage.company.com
• Make sure your proxy expose real ip-address of client, so open-signage can recognize monitors and redirect them to correct presentation

• Set enviroment variables

SSO_ENABLED=false
SSO_HTTP_HEADER_USER_KEY=HTTP_AUTH_USER
SSO_BYPASS_DOMAIN_VERIFICATION=false

• use FullPageOS https://github.com/guysoft/FullPageOS
• or chromium parameters chromium --enable-logging --log-level=2 --v=0 --kiosk --touch-events=enabled --disable-pinch --noerrdialogs --simulate-outdated-no-au='Tue, 31 Dec 2099 23:59:59 GMT' --disable-session-crashed-bubble --disable-component-update --overscroll-history-navigation=0 --disable-features=Translate --autoplay-policy=no-user-gesture-required --app=https://mis.dc.local/discover

• Add --ignore-certificate-errors to chromium flags (Not recommended)
• Add root-ca of your organization or domain

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.