An information display is a screen thats (almost) always on and that displays interesting information.
A few years ago it was considered science fiction to have one in a home. Today you can do it too!
If you like to create a digital mirror: Read this tutorial.
My Trello Screen:
Components:
Rough Plan:
sudo nano /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart# comment everything and add the following lines @xset s off @xset -dpms @xset s noblankchromium-browser --kiosk http://trello.com
If you rather use midori:@midori -e Fullscreen -a http://trello.com
Another idea is to power on and power off the display at night.
Suggestion: login by ssh to set this up.
Create those files:
/usr/bin/sleepMonitor.sh
#!/bin/sh
tvservice -o
/usr/bin/startMonitor.sh
tvservice -p;
sudo chvt 6;
sudo chvt 7;
Now start this with crontab.
I had difficulties getting crontab to use my timezone. Change for your timezone
sudo cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich /etc/localtime
Note: always restart crontab.
Maybe you need to add "TZ=CET" in /etc/default/cron.
I generated the crontab entries using this generator.
Probably interesting if you don't want to do it with an raspberry pi but with an old laptop:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/61708/automatically-sleep-and-wake-up-at-specific-times
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