Multi display presentation help

[Woblee]

I'm after some help/direction in getting info on some presentation/display equipment for where I work. Here a short run down of what it needs to do....


Several screens/TV's that could display a type of 'dashboard' which shows facts and figures. Each one will have slightly different information. They need to be updated hourly from a central point/pc. Preferably the displays could be updated by copy/paste a bunch of figures from excel.

The only other slight problem is that they aren't located close to each other, different areas/rooms. There is a network though so all data can be routed through that.




So, a bit vague I know. But is there any solutions to this?

 

[arad85]

What sort of facts/figures? Numbers generated by machines?

 

[Woblee]

What sort of facts/figures? Numbers generated by machines?

Figures from excel spreadsheets and possibly the odd graph.

Currently doing some digging and found out that the sort of thing I'm after is called "digital signage" or possibly "eboards". Still researching it. Looks like you buy a 'player' which is linked to to a screen.

 

[Brayg01]

Will each of screens be controlled by a local computer? If so you can go the free option and run a presentation via Google docs. Someone has commented on what they have done here (sounds close to what you need) http://www.istartedsomething.com/20...-automatically-updating-tv-kiosk-presentation

 

[Woblee]

Will each of screens be controlled by a local computer? If so you can go the free option and run a presentation via Google docs. Someone has commented on what they have done here (sounds close to what you need) http://www.istartedsomething.com/20...-automatically-updating-tv-kiosk-presentation

After reading the headline and the first few paragraphs I'm inclined to say yes. I'm about to leave work for the day now, but will certainly look at it later when I get home.

 

[Dale_tem]

Check out geckoboard and ducksboard.

We use these at work for our dashboards. Very flexible lots of plug ins and can pull data from files or data pushed by json

 

[Woblee]

Check out geckoboard and ducksboard.

We use these at work for our dashboards. Very flexible lots of plug ins and can pull data from files or data pushed by json

Will do, cheers

 

[Woblee]

Sorry it took so long to get back.

Had a look at ducksboard, but it's very limited i the number of widgets. Geckoboard isn't as 'pretty' but it is a lot more customizable. I'm going to look in to gecko a bit more.

 

[Dale_tem]

We use geckoboard a lot, have 6 different dashboards looping, does our bug tracking, web stats, web server uptime, sales, help desk, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, app downloads and some more.

You can customise the visuals iirc with stylesheets.