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== The TV == | == The TV == | ||
It's a Hitachi 42PD5000. Native resolution is 1024x1024, but it does not accept digital input at this resolution, or any sane resolution. The screen itself is 16:9, but all the advertised EDID modes are 4:3. The manual suggests that it should be capable of more, but these are specific to which inputs are used (DVI accepts different resolutions to VGA). | It's a Hitachi [https://sphere.chronosempire.org.uk/~HEx/32pd5000.pdf 42PD5000]. Native resolution is 1024x1024, but it does not accept digital input at this resolution, or any sane resolution. The screen itself is 16:9, but all the advertised EDID modes are 4:3. The manual suggests that it should be capable of more, but these are specific to which inputs are used (DVI accepts different resolutions to VGA). | ||
After much experimentation, I (HEx) settled on 1024x768 over VGA, software scaled to 1366x768. | After much experimentation, I (HEx) settled on 1024x768 over VGA, software scaled to 1366x768. | ||
Revision as of 22:48, 3 May 2015
A plasma TV is affixed to the wall. It displays status information about the space.
The TV
It's a Hitachi 42PD5000. Native resolution is 1024x1024, but it does not accept digital input at this resolution, or any sane resolution. The screen itself is 16:9, but all the advertised EDID modes are 4:3. The manual suggests that it should be capable of more, but these are specific to which inputs are used (DVI accepts different resolutions to VGA).
After much experimentation, I (HEx) settled on 1024x768 over VGA, software scaled to 1366x768.
Sauron
Driving the TV is an Athlon 64 box named sauron (172.31.26.150). It runs debian jessie.
User "kiosk" is logged in on boot, running Chromium in kiosk mode.
Status page
The status page displays:
- General status from the API (open or closed, who's here, current temperature).
- Twitter feed
- Mailing list feed
- IRC
- Camera feed
Currently it's fetched from https://sphere.chronosempire.org.uk/~HEx/kiosk/.
Code is on github.