Hi Mike,
I’m a big fan of the Raspberry Pi and find them to be really reliable. We did have failures of some we installed a while ago but I wasn’t involved with that project so don’t the details. I do know that since the production was moved from China to Wales the failure rate generally has dropped massively. I don’t think the replacements have failed. The most unreliable part was the spring loaded SD card holder, which is why it has been replaced on the Pi3 with a none spring loaded part.
None of the Pi’s I’ve installed in gallery have failed and we have had ones running for 6 months continuously. My advice would b to make sure you use the official Pi Power supply. I’m less sure of what SD card to use. I was reading the other day about the various SD card technologies , not directly related to the Pi and seeing conflicting information, I need to dig deeper. But if you are loading a web page and getting the data off the network that’s going to be less of an issue that playing looping video that is reading the card all the time.
I’m working on getting some Pi’s playing 9 videos using buttons connected to the GPIO pins, our normal video players can only do 8 buttons, so that is a definite win.
I know the guys at the Sheringham museum have been doing some cools stuff using the Pi’s for interactives’ and information points. They presented at the recent Museum associations tech day. I’ll dig out the details.
Regards
Catherine Jones
New Media Engineer
Science Museum
t: +44 (0)20 7942 4798
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mike Ellis
Sent: 09 March 2016 09:43
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Subject: [MCG] Raspberry Pi signage
Hi all
We're building some prototype signage tools for the Raspberry Pi - it’s a relatively simple thing that runs a local web server / web page but then calls out to the web for bits of content. Ultimately it’ll be hitting up a WordPress install via the WP REST API then caching content locally so we can do stuff like retrieve the days’ events from the museum website and show them on-gallery - that sort of thing.
I know some people are doing groovy things with Pi’s in a production environment - particularly Watershed, Bristol Museums - but I’m interested in hearing:
1) about any other examples
and
2) what experiences there are in how resilient Pi’s are longer term - running day after day. The one I’ve built boots automatically into a fullscreen browser and fetches the relevant page. Then it updates itself every 10 minutes via ajax. I’ve been running it all day for a week now without any issues, and no sign of anything getting hot / tired (this is a RPi 3 - super fast!) - but if anyone has experience of whether there are any issues after months of uptime, that’d be good to hear…
Oh - related to 2) - what are good solutions for auto booting / shutdown each day?
Thanks muchly
Mike
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