hi all
we are a non-profit organization that has operating hours and operating days. we have 2 display TVs that repeatedly display clips of videos. These clips will change over time depending on the current activities at our center.
our required functionality:
– each of our TVs will be connected to a Raspberry Pi 3
– the Raspis are networked to our media server, where they will load videos from the media server over the network
– the media server will be regularly updated with videos which will be reflected in an updated playlist
– the Raspis should wake up in the morning and go to sleep at night
– the Raspis should check a list of holidays for the year and determine if it should go back to sleep for the day
– if it is to be active for the day, the Raspis should access the playlist on the media server, load the videos from the media server and start playing
– the media files could be up to a maximum of 100MB
other info:
– we are currently testing OSMC in manual mode (we wish to automate the function as described above)
– we see that we need to execute startup scripts (we are familiar with python)
– we want to run and loop the videos from memory without repeatedly fetching the videos over the network
– we also do not want to shorten the life of the MicroSD by writing the videos to the card. if possible we want to load the videos into memory and play them off the RAM.
– if need be we are okay with loading OSMC over the network so that should there be a power failure, the MicroSD won’t be affected. we have found another article where the Pi can be booted over the network.
– we are open to using OpenElec if it will do the job for us.
please educate us as to how we can go about achieving the above. we appreciate all the help you can give.
thank you all in advance