{"id":5212,"date":"2014-01-08T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=5212"},"modified":"2014-01-08T11:58:25","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T11:58:25","slug":"setup-10zig-peakos-to-work-as-a-digital-status-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=5212","title":{"rendered":"Setup 10ZiG PeakOS to work as a digital status display (Kiosk mode)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/thinclient-display.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5213 aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/thinclient-display.jpg\" width=\"627\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/thinclient-display.jpg 1494w, https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/thinclient-display-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/thinclient-display-1024x477.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thin Clients are typically used to connect to VDI\/Session hosted environments using though Microsoft\/Citrix\/VMWare technologies but they do have their other uses&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In this post I am going to show you how to setup a 10ZiG thin client (in my case the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.10zig.com\/product\/thin-clients-for-vdi\/181\/\">5872v<\/a>) running their custom made Linux PeakOS that will<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Display status maps from my PRTG network monitor server<\/li>\n<li>Run two displays<\/li>\n<li>Automatically display a different webpage on each display on boot up<\/li>\n<li>Automatically power off at 5pm (after the end of the day)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>So all of that is great but why would I want to use a thin client instead of a full PC to power such a display?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Upfront hardware cost is much cheaper and you get dual DVI as a standard (something you won&#8217;t find on most desktop PCs)<\/li>\n<li>The software required to use the thin client in this manner is built right in &#8211; no fiddling around with scheduled tasks\/group policies<\/li>\n<li>Power consumption is lower &#8211; a thin client such as this one can draw little more than 12W when running such a display (a full desktop could be many times higher)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Want to go one step further? <\/strong>Higher end Windows powered thin clients like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.10zig.com\/product\/thin-clients-for-vdi\/185\/\">10ZiG 6818v<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.10zig.com\/product\/thin-clients-for-vdi\/183\/\">6817v<\/a> can be upgraded (at the factory) to <strong>run 4 displays off the same client<\/strong>, thus saving you from going with a power hungry graphics card in a full desktop PC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thin Clients are typically used to connect to VDI\/Session hosted environments using though Microsoft\/Citrix\/VMWare technologies but they do have their other uses&#8230; In this post I am going to show you how to setup a 10ZiG thin client (in my case the 5872v) running their custom made Linux PeakOS that will Display status maps from my PRTG network monitor server&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=5212\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20],"tags":[62,205,197],"series":[],"class_list":["post-5212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-software","tag-10zig","tag-5872v","tag-prtg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5212"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5271,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212\/revisions\/5271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5212"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=5212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}