Re: "Information station" using Perl and Raspberry Pi

2017-07-26 Thread Sebastian Paaske Tørholm
On Wed, 2017-07-26 at 10:38 +0100, David Precious wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jul 2017 12:20:44 -0700 > SSC_perl wrote: > > > My first though was to use HTML, but I don't want to use a browser > > to > > display the text onscreen.  Would this require a GUI, such as Tk? > > FWIW, it might be sensible to

Re: "Information station" using Perl and Raspberry Pi

2017-07-26 Thread Gary Stainburn
I have seen a few projects similar to the one you've linked. This is the first one using a Pi Zero that I've seen but there's no reason why this wouldn't work. (I've never used Pi Zero's personally) A RPi2 and 3 both have 4 USB ports, LAN, HDMI, and audio out. His point about a Pi2 and a smalle

Re: "Information station" using Perl and Raspberry Pi

2017-07-26 Thread David Precious
On Tue, 25 Jul 2017 12:20:44 -0700 SSC_perl wrote: > My first though was to use HTML, but I don't want to use a browser to > display the text onscreen. Would this require a GUI, such as Tk? FWIW, it might be sensible to not fully discount the HTML option - seting an RPi up to start a browser on