They have about 10,000 accounts in 128 countries. Rise Vision has been doing digital signage since 1992, they offer both free and paid plans. All you need is a Raspberry Pi and a TV to run it.
It is free and backed by the user community and maintained by the software firm WireLoad, which is behind Screenly. The commercial product has a limited free license, but more to the point, there is Screenly OSE. Screenly is a commercial digital signage platform built around the Raspberry Pi micro-PC, but it has a pair of free options. The value for resellers and manufacturers comes from using it to build solutions. OpenSplash does not have a CMS, and therefore is not a complete signage solution out of the box. Supporting video walls, screen zoning with overlapping and depth order, and dynamic content, it is designed to be driven by any network-based content management system (CMS).
It was and is a project driven by Montreal’s Ayuda Media Systems, which markets a full static and digital solution for out of home media companies (a platform that is definitely not free). Open Splash: OpenSplash is free, open source software built to get playlist data and media files from a server. It started as a university project in 2004. There is a low-cost version of Xibo, called Xibo in the Cloud.
Xibo: Xibo is a complete digital signage solution comprised of a web-based content management system (CMS) and choice of Windows or Android signage players. However, active development on the software stopped in 2014. Vodigi: Vodigi is billed as free, open source, interactive digital signage software solution that offers all the features you need to promote and advertise your products and services. A software company that grew out of RPI now markets a commercial, hosted version of Concerto. It has remained open source and is still in active development. It was a student project to create a modern (and free) system to distribute announcements and information across campus without the campus-wide e-mail announcement lists and paper posters.
This tends to be work best left to people with an interest and distinct skills in information technology.Ĭoncerto: Concerto started at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (also known as RPI) in 2008.
To use them, you need to download the software, install them on your own servers (new or re-purposed), and then manage them. These are software packages that have been developed by and supported by the open source community. It is very hard to stay on top of all the options out there and the variations on free, but we’re going to try – by category and by alphabetical order. When it comes to free digital signage software, there are many products touted in some form or another as free. If it introduces compromises and risks, is it worth it? The best advice is to look first at the demands and workflows of a signage network, and sort out what’s needed. While enterprise-grade software from some of the largest firms in digital signage can be costly, there are scores of options for commercial signage CMS platforms that come in at low to quite low costs per media player license, in the range of $10 to $25/month. End-users invariably need to invest real money for media player and display hardware, and they will have soft and real ongoing costs for content and creative. This is not a review or recommendations of what to use.