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| - | The Stairwell displays are run from the Ubuntu machine, ''auscope-screens'' at 131.217.62.142. User ''auscope'', password the usual. | + | The Stairwell displays are run by four Raspberry Pi mini computers. Communication to the Pis is from the Ubuntu machine, ''auscope-screens'' at 131.217.62.142. User ''auscope'', password the usual. |
| - | Please power down the stairwell monitors using the switches under the main desk labelled Screen 1, Screen 2, after hours to save power. Please power them up at 8-9am weekdays if you are in the control room. The display computers (Raspberry Pi's) are shutdown automatically at 4:55pm each day. | + | Please power down the stairwell monitors using the switches under the main desk labelled Screen 1, Screen 2, after hours to save power. Please power them up at 8-9am weekdays if you are in the control room. The Raspberry Pi's are shutdown automatically at 4:55pm each day by a cron job on ''auscope-screens''. |
| - | The switch labeled Screen 4 also powers the Raspberry Pi's. | + | The power switch labeled Screen 4 also powers the Raspberry Pi's. |
| - | There are instructions for controlling the displays on the Desktop of auscope-screens. You can ssh or vnc the Raspberry Pi's after first logging into the auscope-screens machine. The Pi's are on a subnet, quarantined from the uni network, routed through auscope-screens. The Pi's can display video, pdf's, slide shows in pdf format, and can access web pages and resources. | + | There are instructions for controlling the displays on the Desktop of ''auscope-screens''. You can ssh or vnc the Raspberry Pi's after first logging into the ''auscope-screens'' machine. The Pi's are on a subnet, quarantined from the uni network, routed through auscope-screens. The Pi's can display video, pdf's, slide shows in pdf format, and can access web pages and resources. |
| ==Instructions== | ==Instructions== | ||
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| A cron job on ''auscope-screens'' will shut the pi down at 4:55 pm daily (shutdownpi.sh). | A cron job on ''auscope-screens'' will shut the pi down at 4:55 pm daily (shutdownpi.sh). | ||
| - | If communication is lost, power cycle with power switch [4] under desk. | + | If communication is lost, power cycle Pi's with power switch [4] under desk. |
| On boot the pi should start looping through randomly selected movies. | On boot the pi should start looping through randomly selected movies. | ||
| (play.sh called in /etc/rc.local on pi) | (play.sh called in /etc/rc.local on pi) | ||
/home/www/auscope/opswiki/data/pages/operations/big_screens.txt · Last modified: 2017/12/05 00:10 by Warren Hankey
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