With this project you can instantly overlay a video over your currently running layout. This way you don’t have to schedule something if you want to show something once.

On the frontend you have to ability to select a display and a video and it gets schedule. The backend creates a layout with 1 region and 1 embedded widget and in that embedded is a html page with a uuid. This html page requests instantly to the backend. This way the backend knows that the video started and can distinguish between multiple requests as all of them have a unique uuid. When the page request for the second time (either at the end of the video or on the second itteration) the backend deletes the layout thus deleting it from the schedule calender.

With this solution the videos will be shown smoothly and without refreshing at the beginnen.

This repository provides 2 images: xibo-on-demand/frontend and xibo-on-demand/backend. All you need are these 2. To simplify this process of deployment you can use the preconfigured docker-compose deployment in the deployment/ folder. In there you need to create a .env file. Use the .env.example for this:

Here you have 6 environment variables that you can and must change:

• MEDIA_TAG is used for querying only videos with the specified tag. Leave empty to get all videos (is not recommended as this will make the app confusing).

• DISPLAY_TAG is used for querying only displays with the specified tag. Leave empty to get all displays (same as above).

• PRIORITY sets the priority of the overlay layout.

• API_URL is the url of your backend server. Provide the reachable ip of the running machine.

• XIBO_URL is the url of your xibo server. Again provide the reachable ip of the xibo machine.

• XIBO_CLIENT_ID is the client id of the xibo-application.

• XIBO_CLIENT_SECRET is the client secret of the xibo-application.