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Monitors and RasPis

willie

Active Member
My old office did that with cheap Android sticks (search for "mk808") and later upgraded to Chrome boxes.  The Android sticks worked pretty well.  They ran their built-in browser permanently pointed at a web page we set up to display various status and alerts, updating a few times a minute (someone else set it up, so I don't know if there was any sort of push update).
 
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willie

Active Member
@willie, how were those mk808's?  Work well?   Long been interested in them / newer models.  Haven't tinkered with one yet.
The ones we had worked pretty well in 720p.  There was a suspicious-looking firmware upgrade for 1080p that required running some equally suspicious binary blob under Windows to load the firmware into the stick, so I never ran that. It might be possible to find the source for that thing.  I spent a little while looking without success, but with more persistence it might turn up.  There are several makes/models of the mk808 and there's some newer ones now, so shop around.
 

mikho

Not to be taken seriously, ever!
Yup - one Pi - one monitor.


But you can use the Raspberry Pi "video wall" project for your usecase.
Cool project indeed, my mind was on a multiple monitor setup with something more in the line of network or client monitoring. Example: a website /monitor showing statistics or client information.
 

fusa

New Member
Verified Provider
Why don't you use the new smart-TV's this has an build in browser, just point this at your status page, full screen, done
 

Eased

Member
I use my RPi with my 27" monitor without any issue. I mostly run RPITC (Raspberry Pi Thin Client) and my Windows 7 VMs are hosted in various DCs around the country (locally hosted would be MUCH better but under 20ms is still usable).

Here's a video of my RPi connected to a VM in Virginia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpoflazJ-Pg
That is awesome! I also have not had the time to play with a Raspberry Pi yet, but this makes me want to buy one right away. 
 

SpeedBus

New Member
Verified Provider
How about this ? http://hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php


$59 / Quad-Core / 2 GB RAM / 1080p HDMI out :)


* 1.7GHz Quad-Core processor and 2GByte RAM

* 10/100Mbps Ethernet with RJ-45 LAN Jack 
* 3 x High speed USB2.0 Host ports
* Audio codec with headphone jack on board

* XUbuntu 13.10 [SIZE=10pt]or [/SIZE][SIZE=10pt]Android 4.x  Operating System[/SIZE]

* Size : 83 x 48 mm, Weight : 48g including heat sink

* Package includes the main board and the heat sink 
 

TruvisT

Server Management Specialist
Verified Provider
On a side note, has anyone tried using a Pi as a local backup node?
No. There is no point as it is not practical in anyway especially when you compare costs to an actual backup node device/system.
 
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drmike

100% Tier-1 Gogent
USB2 speed would be the limitation along with USB's flakiness and prone to fubaring drives.

For such a beast, there is the Cubieboard that packs a SATA port.

Contemplating a Cubieboard + big SSD for cache and file storage on a wireless network --- as the central out there "on center" storage.
 
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MartinD

Retired Staff
Verified Provider
Retired Staff
"local backup node" = storing files locally. It doesn't mean uber fast, massively reliable, redundant storage array.

Come on people. It's a Pi for crying out loud.
 
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