Pidee Exhibition Runner

Pidee Exhibition Runner is a script for booting a Raspberry Pi into either:

• a fullscreen looping video
• chrome-less web app.

The video or html file is selected by the Pidee board.

This allows multiple videos and web apps to be on the same SD card, useful is you are doing an exhibition with lots of exhibits.

Instructions

To run: ./script-exhibition-runner.sh

To run on LXDE start up

nano ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart

then add

@lxterminal -e + the path to the script-exhibition-runner.sh

Pidee Setup

To play a video set dip switch 8 to ON.

To load a fullscreen webapp set the dip switch 8 to OFF.

Videos load from the ./videos folder. Webapps load from the ./html folder.

The script will load $-filename where $ is equal to the binary number set in dip switches 1 to 7.

Examples

To load a videofile in ./videos/1-test-movie.mp4 the dip switch:

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
ON	OFF	OFF	OFF	OFF	OFF	OFF	ON

To load a webapp in ./html/1-something.mp4 the dip switch:

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
ON	OFF	OFF	OFF	OFF	OFF	OFF	OFF

Case Study: Kavital for Bene's Exhibitions Settings

During London's Clerkenwell Design Week, The Workers' staged a fictitious company called Kavital Ltd., in the showrooms of Bene. In this experience, there were fake computer displays powered by Raspberry Pi using the Pidee Exhibition Runner.

The configuration is below.

2. Inventor Computer

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
OFF	ON	OFF	OFF	OFF	OFF	OFF	OFF

3. Inventor Video

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
ON	ON	OFF	OFF	OFF	OFF	OFF	ON

4. Glitch

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
OFF	OFF	ON	OFF	OFF	OFF	OFF	ON

5. Presentation Loop

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
ON	OFF	ON	OFF	OFF	OFF	OFF	ON

6. Boardroom Grid Display

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
OFF	ON	ON	OFF	OFF	OFF	OFF	ON

7. PR Team 1

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
ON	ON	ON	OFF	OFF	OFF	OFF	OFF

8. PR Team 2

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
OFF	OFF	OFF	ON	OFF	OFF	OFF	OFF