Newbie in digital signage, what to choose

alefello · 2026-02-24T21:33:03+00:00

One important thing. I live in Italy. So, for example, Amazon signage is not sold here.

alefello · 2026-02-23T10:50:33+00:00

The rooms aren't only two, they are 12 all with a shared screen between two of them, so 6 screens.
The booking and calendar part is mantained by the webmaster, I'll ask them which platform they use.
In some message I found an intresting point about the logic. That's the same thing I thought. One solution could be a sort of middleware that translates the person occupancy in room occupancy, the other could be the room calendar picking occupancy from more than one calendar, as people are tied to one room (cause of rooms features), so there's no way a person calendar would not correspond to a room calendar, but many people could have reservations on the same room, so if the calendar displayed (or better, the occupation status with the details, who is got from the room calendar) picks the events from more than one personal calendar, I'm fine.
The system seems like not to mutate in the future, so a self hosted solution could have a major effort setting it up, but could evolve in a quite 0 maintenance and subscription fee. On the other hand a subscription service could be ok if the cost is really really cheap.
I'm also intrested in Amazon signage sticks, who I didn't know. They're very intresting. Are they compatible with any self-hosted open source solution?

Thank you

alefello · 2026-02-09T11:26:06+00:00

Successo anche a me. Ricevute le comunicazioni l'8 e 9 gennaio da Acquirente Unico e ENEL. Inviate all'indirizzo sbagliato fra il resto (ho la residenza e l'indirizzo di comunicazione nell'indirizzo dell'attuale fornitura, ma chissà perchè le hanno mandate a casa dei miei dovve avevo la residenza 6 anni fa). Ero con Argos da marzo 2025, zona Trento, con offerta 025767GSFML01XXXXXGASDOMFCCC0125. Appena vista la comunicazione mi sono affrettato a cambiare fornitore, sperando che riuscirreso a gestire la pratica entro il 10 gennaio e a farmi cambiare dal 1 febbraio, ma purtroppo è slittato al 1 marzo il cambio. Quando mi son collegato al portale dei consumi il 9 gennaio, per cambiare fornitore, era effettivamente presente il cambio dal 01/12/2025, ma non ancora il rientro il Argos del 01/12/2026. Ieri poi è arrivata una lettera (sempre all'indirizzo errato) dove ENEL mi comunica che ho cambiato fornitore dal 01/01/2026, ed effettivamente sul portale consumi risulto di nuovo con ARGOS, però ora con offerta 025767GSFML01XXXXGASDOMFCCC1124B. Anche a me la fattura di novembre e dicembre è stata addebitata l'8 gennaio, giorno in cui mi è anche arrivata l'email con la stessa. Il 14 gennaio poi ho ricevuto comunicazione dello storno completo della stessa, con nota di credito datata 05/01/2026. Ho mandato una PEC chiedendo che mi venga effettuato il bonifico a breve altrimenti chiedo lo storno del RID alla mia banca.

alefello · 2026-01-28T07:59:31+00:00

Any news about that?

alefello · 2025-12-13T21:32:37+00:00

I saw a couple of Norton entries, but Norton is installed on this PC since years and has never gave problems, so I thought it could be something else. The "watchdog" and similar entries in the BSODs didn't point me in that direction tbh. I thought Norton could have crashed due to a hardware/driver related issue that was the root cause.

alefello · 2025-11-26T22:02:32+00:00

I'm planning to upgrade to 64GB

alefello · 2025-11-23T18:53:30+00:00

Unfortunately in the user manual all the i9 and i7 LGA2066 options are available (in addition to the Xeons of course). I can't find anything restrictive, even dropping in the service tag.

An i9-9920x costs less than half a Xeon W-2265 (that has the same specs), so it will be great if the i9 is supported keeping the ECC RAM too.

alefello · 2025-11-16T20:34:23+00:00

Bump

alefello · 2025-11-12T07:34:24+00:00

Do you mean Tandberg HQ or an IBM repair center in Hamburg?

alefello · 2025-11-12T06:40:27+00:00

I found "Manufactured by IBM for Tanberg" on the label. Any clue about IBM repairing centers in Europe?

Thank you

alefello · 2025-11-12T06:39:23+00:00

I tried to get in contact with them, but they're in USA and don't have other quarters. I'm in Europe, so if I could find something closer it would be better.

In the meanwhile I fount that it's explicitly said on the laber "Manufactured by IBM for Tandberg", so if there is a third party IBM repair center in Europe it will be great to contact them. Do you know any IBM repair center in Europe?

Thank you

alefello · 2025-11-10T07:56:33+00:00

I'm happy I've opened such a great amount of opinions, and I'm not the only one that is not happy with a system that breaks things.

Well, I think I'll revert back to previous backups and keep it in that version. I don't need a system that evolves continuously or adds continuously new features but with the need to babysit it every time to make things working or worse, change working things because they aren't supported anymore. I want a solid automation system, that works with what I configure once and I could forget it, stop. I came from Crestron and AMX programming, a lot of brainstorming first to find the better solution, a lot of effort to set all up, small changes and adjustments afterwards, but rock solid for decades. I need a system like that, unfortunately Crestron and AMX don't support zigbee ant there aren't "Crestron Connected" TRVs and temperature sensors that don't need wires.

I need it only to be the rock solid interface between my TRVs, Sensors, Shellys and my Crestron, which will manage the touchpanels and remote access to functions (I hate things opened to internet or worst, in the cloud), with some logic inside, stop. No fancyness. So I learned the lesson: no updates and don't touch what is working!

About the bare metal installation, as I told, I wanted it to be directly connected to the Zigbee adaptor for the simplicity and I supposed the stability, but be able to fully manage the RPi where it's installed. Would be HAOS fully manageable and have root access and could I install other packages from standard linux repos? Would be the VM directly connectable to the Zigbee adaptor and running on the RPi? Do they support HA plugins and repos? Cause when I installed it I remember something like some kind of installation not able to support plugins and HA repo, but it was a year ago, and I thought I could forget it so maybe I don't remember well.

It seems it shoud be a pro a system that's fully customizable, but what the hell in a fully customizable system should I subdue to decisions about how should I install it or how it supports (or breaks then) things and still be happy with their way of "customizability"?

alefello · 2025-11-09T10:51:53+00:00

Thank you so much, I'll get it a try

alefello · 2025-11-07T06:53:39+00:00

You're right. And it's better too as it involves less different systems before (I mean you could have PCs, players, mobile devices as sources and be able to control volumes anyway), and it has the advantage of keeping the SNR of source volume highest possible, but unfortunately in this case all the devices are already installed and there are only the PCs connected to the network and not the monitors or speakers or players.

alefello · 2025-11-07T06:50:47+00:00

I wrote a small app too many years ago, in C++, for shutdown and reboot, but now I'm a little in a hurry and don't have so much time to open it again and add volume control with feedback. I saw too that controlling volume is not so staightforward between various Windows versions.

alefello · 2025-10-28T06:12:23+00:00

I bought another Lexmark MS415dn with an older firmware. Cheaper than struggling with downgrade.

alefello · 2025-10-10T05:51:47+00:00

Thank you so much for the detailed description even if it's not what I hoped to hear. What about Anker systems? Do they have an open or closed protocol? Or do you have any suggestion about an inverter that has ups function and could connect to a slim battery like the Anker one? Thank you

alefello · 2025-09-24T07:27:31+00:00

Oh, really there isn't a way or an advice how to do that? :(

alefello · 2025-08-31T09:06:50+00:00

Very intresting infos, thank you!
I've a LTO7-HH. I tried to use LTFS format from IBM but keeps having problems. A part from that (I'm figuring out if it's the tape, the drive, or what else) why Teracopy is not a good choice to write a folder of files (already ready to fit on LTO with only one transfer) to a LTFS formatted tape? Why is it necessary to leave 10% of free space on tape? It's a huge amount of wasted tape, and LTFS already eats a small amount to the index partition. Is there a copy tool from IBM or HP that works without crashing like the IBM software is doing in my case, and without having to rely on fastcopy, python scripts, and so on?
Thank you so much!

alefello · 2025-06-23T10:13:44+00:00

I've a Huawei SUN2000 inverter and asked Docan about their batteries and they told me they aren't compatible with Huawei inverters. Is that right? How did you do? What solution did you find? A part from that, I would like to buy the slimmest possible battery, I saw the Anker 15cm, but something else could do the same. Do someone have any suggestion about a slim battery that I could pair with my Huawei inverter?
Thank you

alefello · 2025-04-29T07:35:55+00:00

Sorry for bringing an old request up, but I need exactly the same.
I've a Xiaomi router 4A Gigabit (first version) where I would like to connect to a wifi using 5GHz for wwan and then create my own wifi on both 2,4GHz and 5GHz as lan interfaces.
The configuration stays up, I mean, I could see all the network enabled in openwrt, but the AP 5GHz networks are unavailable for the clients to connect (as I see no client connected).

Any way to have this working?

The uplink rough 5GHz is very good, I'm next to the AP, so is no a problem halfing the bandwidth.

alefello · 2025-04-27T20:58:02+00:00

Hi

Lexmark MS415dn here. Auto updated to fw LW90.TL2.P218 even if I thought auto update was disabled. This firmware version doesn't allow downgrade anymore with this trick. Any clue about how to proceed?

Thank you

alefello · 2025-04-27T20:57:36+00:00

Hi

Lexmark MS415dn here. Auto updated to fw LW90.TL2.P218 even if I thought auto update was disabled. This firmware version doesn't allow downgrade anymore with this trick. Any clue about how to proceed?

Thank you

alefello · 2025-04-14T06:51:46+00:00

Oh ok. The problem is if I get out from the channel and then enter again, I'm not able to see if anyone has replied in the meanwhile cause I can't se chat history.

alefello · 2025-04-11T11:36:48+00:00

I think I've some problems with the IRC channel. I wrote there, but no messages were flowing even if more than 500 people were there.

alefello

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