[Cialug] Electronic carillon help

Dave J. Hala Jr. dave at 58ghz.net
Thu Jun 16 10:09:50 CDT 2005


Kiosk mode? Got any more information on this?

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 10:02, Josh More wrote:
> If it were up to me, I would write up a quick and dirty cgi/php file,
> set the linux machine to run in kiosk mode with a web browser set load
> the page, and do a server push every minute to update a clock.
> 
> As far as playing goes, just have code in the cgi that runs a command
> of 'play filename.ext'.
> 
> This is very similiar to what I did last year to make a web-based
> kiosk for a convention that spoke the current and upcoming events
> via text to speech.  We had a few blind attendees that year.
> 
> 
>  
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