While working on the website for the church I attend, it occured to us that our new WordPress site might be able to deliver digital signage. We tried it with the Foyer plugin, and although the developer Menno Luitjes was very helpful, we haven’t gotten that right.
For now, we have a Raspberry Pie running MinimalKiosk OS, displaying our church calendar, which comes from the calendar we keep up to date on ACS Church Software. Every night the Pi restarts, and that refreshes the calendar to show new events.
It’s not an elegant solution, but it works, for now, and doesn’t require any extra work from volunteers or staff. It displays the calendar that they do, anyway.
We put in a feature request to ACS to give us a view of the calendar that is more appropriate for digital signage, and they said great idea, they’ll submit it to their team.
[this post updated 1/17/2019]