There’s a debate in the church world about how effective announcements are. Some belive it’s just so much white noise and not worth the effort. Taking a cue from the world of advertising, messages do get through if done properly or people wouldn’t pay to do it. I think an unobtrusive display with a running loop might be the answer. Here’s how I did it with a Raspberry Pie.
Inexpensive Monitor facing people as they enter the church.
Raspberry Pie 2 with the Kodi OpenElec OS.
Pictures are stored on the SD card or use a Dropbox plugin to run with a wireless connection. You’ll find the Slide Show presentation feature in the Picture menu.
The advantage to using a Raspberry Pie is it’s low power, great graphics capability and low heat output. You can let it run all day (or all weekend when you forget to turn it off) 🙂
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