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Visio-Display: Building a Self-Hosted Digital Signage Platform

I have been developing Visio-Display , a free and open-source digital signage platform released under the GPL-3.0 license . The project started with a simple requirement: manage content across several screens from a central interface while retaining full control over the hosting, data, and display clients. Over time, it grew beyond displaying images and videos. Visio-Display now covers a…

Visio-Display is a free and open-source digital signage platform released under the GPL-3.0 license. It allows users to manage content across multiple screens from a central interface, maintaining full control over hosting, data, and display clients. The platform covers various aspects of a signage infrastructure's operational lifecycle, including content creation, scheduling, client deployment, monitoring, maintenance, backups, and updates.

The source code is available on GitHub, and the platform is self-hosted, with the author validating it on their own infrastructure with real Linux display clients.

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