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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