/laughing-train

Digital Notice Board

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laughing-train

Raspberry Pi ISA Digital Smart Board

Author : Souvik Saha

Date of Implementation : 20th March, 2018.

Version v1.0

v1.0 Features

  • Automatically mounts pendrive to the Raspberry Pi and displays the images in numerical order
  • Can add captions in the file
  • To add new images, just copy and paste the images onto the USB drive and plug into the RPi
  • The RPi will automatically boot onto the slideshow window.
  • Slideshow interval is 10 seconds.

Setup

  • Install feh using sudo apt-get install feh
  • Add script to startup --- cd ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi --- sudo nano autostart --- Add to the end of the file @./slide.sh
  • Mount USB -- --- sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g --- Get UUID of drive using ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid example CA1C-06BC --- sudo mkdir /media/usb1 --- Get GID id -g pi --- Get UID id -u pi --- Edit fstab file sudo nano /etc/fstab --- Add to end of fstab file like this UUID=057B-26E9 /media/pi/usb1 vfat nofail,uid=pi,gid=pi 0 0