c4Iona Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 Wondering if anyone has a DAKBoard in their project. I was looking to buy one and found they are back ordered. I noticed I could get a Raspberry Pi and run the DAKBoard from that and add it to the video matrix and have it available on all TV's in the house. Anyone doing this? Is it worth the time? is there something better out there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejn1 Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 8 minutes ago, c4Iona said: Wondering if anyone has a DAKBoard in their project. I was looking to buy one and found they are back ordered. I noticed I could get a Raspberry Pi and run the DAKBoard from that and add it to the video matrix and have it available on all TV's in the house. Anyone doing this? Is it worth the time? is there something better out there? Looks really cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcovach Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 16 hours ago, c4Iona said: Wondering if anyone has a DAKBoard in their project. I was looking to buy one and found they are back ordered. I noticed I could get a Raspberry Pi and run the DAKBoard from that and add it to the video matrix and have it available on all TV's in the house. Anyone doing this? Is it worth the time? is there something better out there? If you had Control4 touch screens, you could insert your DAKBoard url in the Generic URL driver from Blackwire. It may display a bit small on a 7" ts but it works! msgreenf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turls Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 Good idea, I have been running the free version on some multimonitor PCs, but this seems like a good idea if I could dedicate a Pi to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c4Iona Posted March 27, 2021 Author Share Posted March 27, 2021 11 hours ago, turls said: Good idea, I have been running the free version on some multimonitor PCs, but this seems like a good idea if I could dedicate a Pi to it. https://dakboard.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/35000125880-download-and-install-the-dakboard-os-for-raspberry-pi?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf turls 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wnpublic Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 17 hours ago, dcovach said: If you had Control4 touch screens, you could insert your DAKBoard url in the Generic URL driver from Blackwire. It may display a bit small on a 7" ts but it works! Not a knock on the driver, more about the T3's - but that solution is slow to load, and has limits, especially with fancy html and javascript. you would be much better off with a dedicated solution if this is what you really want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejn1 Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 Anyone know if that DAKBoard 24in screen is touchscreen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcovach Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 51 minutes ago, wnpublic said: Not a knock on the driver, more about the T3's - but that solution is slow to load, and has limits, especially with fancy html and javascript. you would be much better off with a dedicated solution if this is what you really want. I see your point. I'm just using the preconfigured DAKBoard template and the url works fine once it's loaded. The clock displays the seconds and it never misses a number on the T3. I suppose if you created your own fancy template and if it was really busy then maybe not everything would fit on a T3 or update as nicely compared to viewing on a monitor or a TV. wnpublic 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanDad Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 Great suggestion. Just added an old Rpi that I had laying around on to our matrix. Loaded the Dakboard OS, added in our calendars and a few photos and voila. My wife thinks it’s fantastic. c4Iona 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAV Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 2 hours ago, ejn1 said: Anyone know if that DAKBoard 24in screen is touchscreen? It's not. ejn1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c4Iona Posted March 27, 2021 Author Share Posted March 27, 2021 1 hour ago, OceanDad said: Great suggestion. Just added an old Rpi that I had laying around on to our matrix. Loaded the Dakboard OS, added in our calendars and a few photos and voila. My wife thinks it’s fantastic. I have a pi coming Monday. I am looking forward to this. Thinking I may end up with two. One for my office and another one for the Family. I will probably set it to auto turn on in the morning and off at the end of the day in my office and have it turn on in the bedroom and kids room every morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
videostorm Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 FYI our Splash-tiles.com tool is very similar to Dakboard. Except it has some nice C4 integration built in (and is less expensive overall). Runs on your Android TV / Fire OS devices (you can also run on a pi if you like) Complete cloud control is actually included in the FREE version Free C4 driver with a lot of integration features Push data / control from C4 to your displays Transparent overlays & such Authenticated Camera support with popup Full WebGl graphics applications built in Personally I like Dakboard as well. It was in part the inspiration for SplashTiles. SplashTiles has much more of an automation focus Also, it works really well with a touch screen bezel (touch control is designed into our app). I have a 45" Samsung in my office with an Aliexpress touchscreen bezel attached (~$150). It is awesome I even put it on a rotating wall mount so I can spin it to landscape if needed (normally it is mounted portrait). turls 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c4Iona Posted March 28, 2021 Author Share Posted March 28, 2021 5 minutes ago, videostorm said: FYI our Splash-tiles.com tool is very similar to Dakboard. cannot seem to get to that site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
videostorm Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 47 minutes ago, c4Iona said: cannot seem to get to that site. https://splash-tiles.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
videostorm Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 Made a video showing how the touchscreen works https://youtu.be/muz4W_fZrGM Instructions are at https://splash-tiles.com/help/vertical_tvs.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhyPhy Posted May 10, 2021 Share Posted May 10, 2021 On 3/26/2021 at 6:55 PM, dcovach said: If you had Control4 touch screens, you could insert your DAKBoard url in the Generic URL driver from Blackwire. It may display a bit small on a 7" ts but it works! Is there a way to make DAKboard or Splash Tiles act as a "screensaver" for C4 touch panels? So instead of activating the actual C4 time/date screensaver, go to the URL view and display the dashboard? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
videostorm Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 SplashTiles app (Android) has Screen saver mode built in. You can select any of your custom designed "screens" as your screen saver. This mode is implemented using the standard Android API. As such, it is directly selectable as a screen saver in settings once you install our app. Some platforms (Amazon Firetv for example), don't give you any options in the settings menu. However, you can still use ADB to put our screen saver in place and it works perfectly. So it "should" work on the c4 panel, but I don't have one to test it. The app is free, so download it and try. Please let us know if it works https://splash-tiles.com/help/screensaver.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhyPhy Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 10 hours ago, videostorm said: So it "should" work on the c4 panel, but I don't have one to test it. The app is free, so download it and try. Please let us know if it works Control4 Touchscreens don't allow Android screen savers as far as I know. I was thinking a possible solution would be more likely be around C4 navigation agent forcing the generic web view driver to open via custom programming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
videostorm Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 Yeah, you could do that. In our case you would just use the commands on our NetPlay Cloud driver to load the screen you want (SplashTiles is fully controllable via our driver). Android screen saver would be a less work though if it supports it. Try the ADB method we describe in our documentation link (prior post). Do the C4 touchscreen have a default screen saver? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 On 5/11/2021 at 2:36 PM, WhyPhy said: Control4 Touchscreens don't allow Android screen savers as far as I know. I was thinking a possible solution would be more likely be around C4 navigation agent forcing the generic web view driver to open via custom programming. I don’t think the Navigation agent is what you want. But any of the many webview drivers should do the trick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhyPhy Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 On 5/12/2021 at 3:50 PM, South Africa C4 user said: I don’t think the Navigation agent is what you want. But any of the many webview drivers should do the trick. I was thinking that maybe Navigation Agent could programmatically call a webview for the dashboard? Or just define the webview as the default screen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 3 hours ago, WhyPhy said: I was thinking that maybe Navigation Agent could programmatically call a webview for the dashboard? Or just define the webview as the default screen? The Navigation agent (at this stage unless I missed an update somewhere) only allows one to programmatically pull up a camera . Any of the various web-view drivers allows one to programmatically pull up a url. I use the Blackwire driver but there are many others all of which will do this, WhyPhy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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