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U-Disp - The Digg (tm) display (Open Source)

Step 17Project description - Software

Project description - Software
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The controlling software runs on a PC and is written in C#.

It is written to run as a Windows Service so that it starts automatically when the PC is booted and runs invisibly in the background.

To change settings there's a web interface that you can access from your browser by going to http://localhost/:4201 . There you can select what information that should be displayed and how and how long it is shown.

There's also a display simulator with four virtual displays that can be used for debugging and testing the software without actually having access to the u-disp hardware.

The software is working, but not completely reliable, so it needs some more work before its really usable. But I keep on working on in...
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