I'm working on a very similar project!

[rsora]

Hi!
I saw your project on Hackaday, so cool!

Just wanted to let you know that I'm working on something very similar, maybe you can find something useful in my repo 😸

here is the link https://github.com/rsora/luncher

There is also a tutorial for another similar project, that I referenced in my repo https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/02/turn-an-old-ereader-into-an-information-screen-nook-str/ maybe you could find some inspiration with this one as well!

Happy coding!

[jonatron]

I assume the Electric Sign app takes care of stopping the screensaver? That's still on my to-do list. Edit: Didn't read - it changes the screensaver - interesting.

[rsora]

I assume the Electric Sign app takes care of stopping the screensaver? That's still on my to-do list. Edit: Didn't read - it changes the screensaver - interesting.

It has also other interesting features like:

• startup on boot
• allow for disabling wifi and save battery
• error messaging
• ...

OTOH the biggest limitation that I see is that the app is able to fetch only unsecure http endpoints, that blocks me to deploy my server somewhere in the cloud 😄

[jonatron]

I might have a look at https://www.bouncycastle.org/java.html later for https

[jonatron]

I have can make a basic TLS(SSL) HTTP 1.1 request with spongy castle, but I haven't done certificate verification. If you're not bothered about certificate verification, I put the example here if you want?