concerto
Concerto Digital Signage System (by concerto)
enigma-bbs
ENiGMA½ BBS Software (by NuSkooler)
| concerto | enigma-bbs | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 7 | |
| 431 | 578 | |
| 1.2% | 3.1% | |
| 3.8 | 8.6 | |
| about 1 month ago | 7 days ago | |
| Ruby | JavaScript | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
concerto
Posts with mentions or reviews of concerto.
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Asus Chromebox 5
My higher education institution has bought every generation of these for Digital Signage since 2014. We use an open-source (abandonware?) Ruby project called Concerto[1] to generate webpages, and the Chrome OS Kiosk Mode[2] feature to boot these things straight to chrome-less full-screen web browsers that load Concerto webpages. It's a nice setup, but I do worry about the future support of both of those pillars.
1. https://github.com/concerto/concerto
2. https://chromeenterprise.google/os/kiosk-and-digital-signage...
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Chrome Sign Builder & folder full of JPGs
You could take a look at Concerto. A group of RPI students developed it to use as their campus signage system. I’ve deployed it twice before and it’s a pretty flexible system, you can add images, announcements, sync with an iCal. You can even add multiple users with different permissions (high school staff can only manage the high school sign).
enigma-bbs
Posts with mentions or reviews of enigma-bbs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-23.
- BBS: The Documentary
- ENiGMA½ – modern BBS software with a nostalgic flair
- Subtext - A multi-user BBS server for classic macOS
- Explaining Code Using ASCII Art
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BBS "Proxy" ?
One of the nice parts about it is it's open source :) It looks like it is (mostly) a raw TCP connection - take a look at https://github.com/NuSkooler/enigma-bbs/blob/master/core/telnet_bridge.js, which uses the net module from node.js. As far as I can see, this looks like raw TCP rather than actually telnet. The one thing that the telnet_bridge.js code does do is look for a request for term type and can respond with that, though that looks like that would be easy to comment out or make into an option if that were a problem.
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Ask HN: Could something like HN work on the fediverse?
Only if we can rock the old modems. I know there were some BBS....
....just went down the rabbit hole.
There is lots of bbs stuff out there. Here is one such example: https://github.com/NuSkooler/enigma-bbs
What are some alternatives?
When comparing concerto and enigma-bbs you can also consider the following projects:
xibo-cms - Xibo Content Management System
ascii-tables - ⚡ Quickly format table in ASCII. Great for code comments, or Github Markdown!
LibreSignage - A free and open source digital signage solution.
sbbs - Mirror of gitlab.synchro.net/sbbs (don't submit pull requests here)
flutter-pi - A light-weight Flutter Engine Embedder for Linux Embedded that runs without X11 or Wayland.
cross-platform-terminal-characters - All the characters that work on most terminals