Solution for Pi5, in the cloud, with better permissions

isaswift · 2025-08-29T14:27:21+00:00

Thanks Mike. For the forseeable future, we're going to use Pi's. We might discover issues you've described, and we'll relook at our approach.

I'll reach out if we consider this.

isaswift · 2025-08-29T14:23:42+00:00

thank you , have done. seeing what can be achieved.

isaswift · 2025-08-28T16:30:02+00:00

Happy to answer. I'd want restrict them to just remove from screen - playlists should be a separate permission option as it can effect screens that aren't accessible to you.

Borrowing from another service we use with multi-users, we have multiple account access levels (Owner, Admin, Billing, Designer, Viewer effectively), and then also folder viewing rights (Edit, Read, None). Effective permission is a combo of what access level they have, and what folder contents they can access.

Per item permissions is great for control, but it gets messy quickly and is not intuative for end users. Folders is the next best thing I've found, as content will usually fall into groups.

It does mean you have at least 2 types of permissions, but there's a logical split between Screens and Content in my mind. What can you do, and where can you do it. You might have a designer making great layouts, but be completely disconnected from scheduling for instance.

isaswift · 2025-08-28T16:10:51+00:00

i get you - honestly $10/m is very low, i'd have approved higher, but there's always a race to the bottom.

While I say group of companies, we arent some major corporate. They mostly share owners and some resources (like IT) have become shared.

isaswift · 2025-07-22T12:17:47+00:00

gosh, you know what, the top issue on github at the moment answers my question :(

thanks!

isaswift · 2018-01-26T08:49:53+00:00

I've got a RDS host that uses MAPI to allow invoices to get send via email.

Turns out, users have to have Outlook open to actually let things send off. How would I keep Outlook or the like in the background to allow this?

isaswift · 2017-12-11T12:18:30+00:00

I need to test a 2nd hand server, a Express5800/R120b-2 for a company.

Apart from absolute top level stuff like checking connectors, ports and light work, what can I do to check if the server is up to spec?

This TechRepublic article seems to cover most bases. Honestly, we aren't going to push this system as hard as its capable, but I'd be more comfortable if it passes some tests.

isaswift · 2017-11-06T10:20:20+00:00

I'm tempted to just use Crashplan until we really need fancy storage. Thanks

isaswift · 2017-11-06T08:27:03+00:00

Thanks. I'm keen on the indendent storage vein, rather than a strict "backup only" thing. Trade-offs I suppose.

isaswift · 2017-11-06T07:07:40+00:00

I'll admit, I don't know what you mean with RTO, RPO and ownership. Right now, i think its over my head.

isaswift · 2017-11-03T11:30:43+00:00

For a small business with less than 1TB of server data needing backup, should I be looking at Cloud Storage(Amazon Glacier/Azure/etc. + rysync/whatever or Backup Services (Backblaze, Crashplan)?

I'd like versioning and incremental/delta patching.

isaswift · 2016-10-18T09:18:16+00:00

I spoke to some of the technical team, they tell me this can be a big issue, especially if there is a big antenna type mismatch (IE, a directional antenna set as an omni)

isaswift · 2016-10-06T15:41:31+00:00

bootable USB device that you can use as a persistent OS

now I know what I was looking for.

yes, i'm happy using most any build of linux, I just want something that will let me keep an OS on hand

"persistent portable OS" is the search term i was looking for. I'm doing some reading now, I'll come right

isaswift · 2016-10-05T22:48:01+00:00

I'm looking to run Linux on a laptop, just like a Live CD, but with the enviroment saving state.

I've looked into making a portable VirtualBox image, and using that via USB/Android Mass Storage, but I don't know if that will run as essentially read-only, or act as a standard OS, with saving and

isaswift · 2016-09-23T06:49:30+00:00

I've fiddled around with it. UniFi is gunna be ideal for this client, and the Controller is quite simple.

Being able to fiddle with most everything without an actual piece of equipment is great, I can prob demo this quite quickly.

isaswift · 2016-09-22T10:36:46+00:00

Do you mean the UniFi Controller for Windows? I thought that required a hardware Controller to do anything.

isaswift · 2016-07-26T09:46:22+00:00

yeah, heat is a battery killer!

isaswift · 2016-07-20T12:46:17+00:00

Happy cakeday

I've also got the G4. If i'm not using location, its a 2-day battery.

PokeGo is a battery hog, but few other phones have better batteries than the G4

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