Concerto change date format

This requires some access to the database. The date format is stored in the content field of the content table. PHP format codes are here:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

I changed the content to:

l F, d g:i A

l - Full Day (Thursday)
F - Full Month (October)
, comma
d - day integer
g - hour without leading zero
: colon
i - minutes
A - am/om

Concerto RSS feed

http://www.concerto-signage.org/help_pages/39

RPi Auto Start

Tried this for an automatic start of the Raspberry Pi.

http://www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk/2012/06/auto-login-auto-load-lxde/

I'm looking for another idea. The performance doing it that way was horrible for some reason.

Concerto PDF Image upload

Had an issue uploading a pdf file to the concerto server. Turns out there is a dependency on some ImageMagick libraries to convert from pdf to png. Luckily, ImageMagick is in the Debian repository.

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

Concerto server install on Raspberry Pi

I am following the directions found on the github website (https://github.com/concerto/concerto-debian). The first time I did this, I was not familiar with git at all. More info on git can be found here (http://git-scm.com/about). First you want to install git using the command:

sudo apt-get install git

OK. I ended up going into the raspberry pi's gui and downloading the source code from

http://www.concerto-signage.org/deploy

I downloaded the tar.gz and moved the files to the /var/www directory.

Continuing on with the installation, use phpmyadmin to create a concerto database, run the schema.sql and data.sql scripts.

Make a copy of the config.inc.php.sample using this command

cp config.inc.php.sample config.inc.php

Open the config.inc.php and change the sql settings to localhost and the user/password you create.

Pointing a browser to //localhost/index.php should show the concerto login screen.

Fix administrator password here:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!msg/concerto-digital-signage/WgWMgZEqtI0/YGoWpOHDtWIJ

It is important to remember to create an images folder and templates folder in the content folder and grant read/write permissions.

mkdir /var/www/content/images
mkdir /var/www/content/templates
chmod 777 /var/www/content/images
chmod 777/var/www/content/templates

Install LAMP on Raspberry Pi

While dropping the kids off at the first day of school, I ran into our district's technology coordinator and ended up talking about a television monitor he wanted to turn into a digital sign. I thought the Raspberry Pi would be a cheap, usable tool to accomplish this. I played around with it and discovered Concerto, an open source solution developed at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. I got it working on the RPi as a server and a client. Unfortunately, I ran out of space on the SD card as I forgot to increase the partition. So here we go starting over. This time I am going to document the steps. First we want to install apache, mysql and php to make the RPi a LAMP server. I found outstanding documentation here: http://fusionstrike.com

First instructions: download the Debian disk image from http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads. I use Win32DiskImager to write the image to an sd card(http://www.softpedia.com/get/CD-DVD-Tools/Data-CD-DVD-Burning/Win32-Disk-Imager.shtml). There is a great config screen. I like to enable ssh, expand the root file structure to fill card (forgot this last time), set timezone and overclock. Changing the password would be a good idea as well. Checking for upgrades is a good idea as well.

Install apache: http://fusionstrike.com/2012/installing-apache2-raspberry-pi-debian. I like to use Putty to ssh into my pi (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html).

Install mysql: http://fusionstrike.com/2012/setting-mysql-raspberry-pi-debian

Install php: http://fusionstrike.com/2012/setting-php-raspberry-pi-debian

Install phpmyadmin: http://fusionstrike.com/2012/installing-phpmyadmin-raspberry-pi-debian. The first time, I usually get a 404 not found error. Running the two commands toward the end of the tutorial fixes it.