qante

qante is a QML-based framework to create standalone presentations, e.g., on TVs in a waiting room. It was designed to offer a smooth experience even on embedded devices like a Raspberry Pi 2 or 3.

Impressions

Please note: the photographs used in the following are not included in this repository

Demo video of qante on a Raspberry Pi 2 with RPibuntu connected to a FullHD TV in a waiting room:

Screenshot of the weather widget:

Available widgets

• Slideshow - animated display of still images
• Simple HTML - display a simple HTML page
• Ticker - show RSS/Atom feeds as scrolling text
• Weather - weather from openweathermap.org
• Webview - show a complex web page using QT's built-in browser

Usage

1. Create a screenplay.qml. For example:

    import QtQuick 2.5
    import QtQuick.Window 2.2
   
    Item {
    	Component.onCompleted: {
    		// show a simple HTML page with a scrolling ticker on the bottom
    		{
    			var args = {}
    			var scene
    			var ticker
    			
    			scene = newWidget(qante, "Scene", args)
    			
    			args = {
    				"feedType": ["atom"],
    				"urls": [
    					"http://rpibuntu.kicherer.org/www/feeds/news.atom.xml",
    				],
    				"namespaces": ["http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"]
    			}
    			
    			ticker = newWidget(scene, "ticker", args)
    			ticker.z = 1 // ensure ticker is always visible on top
    			
    			args = {"htmlURL": "example1.html"}
    			newWidget(scene, "simple_html", args)
    			
    			addScene(scene)
    		}
    	}
    }
   

   (an full example is available under doc/screenplay.qml.example)

2. Execute: qmlscene --fullscreen quante.qml

License

qante is released under GPLv3.

The weather icons under resources/weather/ are copied from the Gnome Desktop Tango Icon theme (v3.12.0) which is released under the GNU LGPL v.3 or Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license.