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WiFis with Captive Portals are not supported! If you see a landing page in a browser when you connect to your WiFi, info-beamer hosted won't work! See below.Ģ.4Ghz WiFi networks are supported on all Pis with a built-in or supported USB adapter. If you can, please use an Ethernet connection instead.

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If you're creating your configuration with a Windows text editor, make sure it does not save with endings and you editor doesn't add a BOM (byte-order-marker).ĭo not use windows line endings for your configuration files or they won't work! Use Unix line endings ( ) when saving your config files! WiFi configurationīefore you decide to use WiFi, be aware that WiFi has a lot of problem sources like bad reception, regional channel policies, random connection losses, slow download speed, updated WiFi credentials, etc. This partition is the one that's visible when you insert the SD card into a Windows machine.Īll configuration files are stored in the /config directory.Īll files must be created with unix line endings ( ). You can enable certain options by creating files on the first partition. If, after a reboot, the device doesn't work properly, for example if the WiFi configuration is incorrect or it can't reach the info-beamer service, it will automatically restart after 6 minutes and revert to the previous working configuration. This might take a moment as the device reinstalls the complete operating system with your changes applied to it. Once you're done, click on Apply configuration and reboot device and the device will save the configuration and reboot. Just go to the device detail page of the device you want to edit and use the configuration editor. The latest info-beamer OS offers support for editing almost all configuration options remotely. See below for all the different configuration files and options. This requires you to be at the device while editing. File based editingįor experts only and usually not recommended: You can unplug the device, get its SD card and edit the configuration files directly. Both of them require a short downtime of your device. If your device is already running and showing content, you can change configuration values in two ways. Extract the install.zip on an empty SD card and your Pi will boot and apply the configuration settings. Finally click on the Download install.zip button. Just click on Customize download on the linked page and specify the initial configuration for your device. Download info-beamer hosted installation files.

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