Xibo for Linux

Xibo for Linux is a Digital Signage Player for Xibo.

It is in its early stages of development and supports a subset of Xibo's overall features. It can be used in production, but should be thoroughly tested with the intended content. It is not recommended to assume that any of Xibo's features will function. Please test yourself to confirm.

To discuss this Player with us, please join our community.

Installation

Installation and upgrade instructions can be found here.

Contributing

We use GitHub Issues to track development and the next milestone is full of issues for which we would happily accept contributions. In addition, if a Xibo feature you want is not mile-stoned, or mile-stoned against a later version, please get in touch if you'd like to work on it. We maintain a Kanban Board to ensure we're not doing overlapping work.

Please check that you're happy for your work to be available under the project licence - the AGPLv3 or later.

Let us know you'd like to contribute by joining our community.

Build

If you would like to work on the Player you can build it locally using the instructions below.

Building from sources

We recommend you use snapcraft to build Xibo.

Building with Snapcraft

• Install snapcraft, making sure you have version 4 or later (snap install snapcraft --classic)
• Clone this repository
• Run snapcraft in the root of the repository
• A .snap file will be created which you can use to install from

Debugging

We provide a VSCode dev container that has everything needed to build/debug the application using VSCode. This devcontainer uses a base image which is built from the Dockerfile in the root folder.

To debug this application using VSCode.

1. Copy the settings folder from a working player install into the /build/bin folder, making sure you have cmsSettings.xml and playerSettings.xml.
2. Open cmsSettings.xml and adjust the localLibrary setting to be /workspaces/vscode/build/bin/library.
3. Open the application directory using the remote containers plugin.
4. Go to the aplication debug extesion at left panel and click on the green play button.

Tutorial video: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6628028/162645464-5eadcb2b-a53a-450e-805f-9589fba6f8f0.mp4

Issue 260 will improve steps 1 and 2 so that the options app can be used.