Android as a Digital Signage platform

Slides for my talk at Barcelona Android User Group on October

Transcript

1. Android as a Digital Signage platform Barcelona Android User Group October 2013
2. Hello world Clients Orange El Corte Inglés Endesa Sodexo Ikea Nespresso Fira Barcelona Ajuntament de Barcelona ESADE The Phone House The company 20 people Digital Signage User Interactivity Projects Spain United Kingdom Germany Netherlands Finland www.focusonemotions.com @focusonemotions
3. Hello world Orestes Carracedo 8 years as a developer 4 years as an Android user 3,5 years at Focus On Emotions Certified SCRUM Master PHP 5.3 Zend Certified Engineer Read about me http://blog.orestes.io Follow me @orestesCA
4. What’s Digital Signage?
5. What’s Digital Signage?
6. What’s Digital Signage?
8. Challenge Break out of the player app and you’ll get a reward • Try to guess the unlock gesture • Try to guess the unlock code • No buttons • No fastboot
9. Start
10. Briefing Make it on time Code as less as possible Be robust Make use of existing OS tools Make use of existing apps Be flexible Create multiple decoupled tools that work together
11. System architecture Apache Cordova V P N BusyBox A D B S S H JavaScript player SuperSU scheduler
12. Prototype http://vimeo.com/72032877
13. Quick ADB recap $ adb devices List of devices attached 4df144cb39376f2f device # Over USB 192.168.1.42:5555 device # Over NET $ adb shell echo “Hello world” Hello world $ adb -d shell ls /mnt/sdcard $ adb -s 192.168.1.42:5555 shell ls /mnt/sdcard Enable ADB over Wi-Fi $ adb shell setprop service.adb.tcp.port 5555 $ adb shell stop adbd && start adbd # or you’ll be locked out $ adb connect 192.168.1.42:5555
14. Quick ADB recap Sending keys $ adb shell input keyevent 3 # home Starting activities $ adb shell am start -n com.focusonemotions.android.player./Wrapper Killing a process $ adb shell killall com.focusonemotions.android.player Installing apps $ adb install foe-player-v1.1.apk $ adb push foe-player-v1.1.apk /system/app Android Monitor <android-sdk>/tools/monitor http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/KeyEvent.html
15. Features
17. Player Cordova Screen rotation Read start URL Provide OS access JavaScript Display content Read content index file Listen for gesture Ask for code Show config manager
18. Scheduler Power management $ reboot # (duh) Screen state management $ input keyevent 26 # power $ input keyevent 82 # menu Player state management $ killall com.focusonemotions.android.player $ am start -n com.[...].player/.Wrapper http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/KeyEvent.html
19. Restricted user access • Kill UI process • Custom launcher AndroidManifest <category android:name="android.intent.category.HOME" /> /system/build.prop qemu.hw.mainkeys=1 • Custom ROM http://thebitplague.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/kiosk-mode-on-the-nexus-7/
20. Local configuration manager Content Index file Player configuration file Configuration manager Content player
21. Static IP address https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.schaeuffelhut.android.openvpn.installer https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.blinkt.openvpn $ openvpn --config /mnt/sdcard/focus/openvpn/conn.conf > /mnt/sdcard/focus/openvpn/run.log & $ cat /mnt/sdcard/focus/openvpn/conn.conf | grep resolv resolv-retry infinite
22. Remote shell $ adb connect 192.168.1.42:5555 $ time adb connect 192.168.1.42:5555 unable to connect to 192.168.1.42:5555 real 1m3.163s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.020s . . $ time timeout 9s adb connect 192.168.1.42 real 0m9.003s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.020s
23. Screen capture $ adb shell screencap /mnt/sdcard/focus/capture.png $ adb pull /mnt/sdcard/focus/capture.png $ ./capture.sh oratab-030-01 Getting screencap from oratab-030-01 ... done.
24. Wi-Fi management $ echo "12345678" | wpa_passphrase "SSID" # reading passphrase from stdin network={ ssid="SSID" #psk="12345678" psk=34b59e6b0182725d42460 [...] } $ wpa_passphrase "SSID" "12345678" # may malfunction $ wpa_passphrase "SSID" # may malfunction # reading passphrase from stdin Android Wi-fi/WPA settings /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf
25. Content management $ adb push /local/folder /remote/folder PHP SFTP Wrapper $ php load-device-content.php 300 7 Loading content … 50 % 20/40 KB 100 % 40/40 KB Done. /mnt/sdcard/focus + openvpn + player + scheduler + upload - content - october_2013 + media
26. Statistics & graphs
27. Statistics & graphs Whisper database (updates to past data) Carbon aggregation (Use an IP, not a hostname UDP is better than TCP, is off by default) Graphite for rendering $ /opt/graphite/bin/carbon-cache.py start --debug $ echo ‘value.received’ `date +%s` | nc -w 1 127.0.0.1 2003 StatsD/statsite as aggregator/proxy (v8 nodejs vs C) <?php StatsD::increment(‘com.focusonemotions.app.pushing’); http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ https://github.com/etsy/statsd/ https://github.com/armon/statsite
28. Platforming
29. 1. Plug device in 2. Enable ADB over USB 3. Launch script 4. Enter ID 5. Done! Check • PING • SFTP • SSH • ADB Platforming
30. $ sftp root@192.168.1.42:mnt/sdcard/focus bash: /usr/libexec/sftp-server: No such file or directory $ sftp -s /system/xbin/sftp-server root@192.168.1.42:mnt/sdcard/focus sftp> # quick fix [adb] $ ln -s /system/xbin/sftp-server /usr/libexec/sftp-server Install SuperSU + settings Install BusyBox Install DropBearSSH Fix SFTP subsystem Install player Install scheduler Install OpenVPN certificates from ID Reboot Platforming http://www.chainfire.eu/projects/52/SuperSU/ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=stericson.busybox https://github.com/yath/android_external_dropbear
31. Ha ha!
32. Monitoring with Nagios
33. Monitoring with Nagios $ php check-device-content.php 192.168.1.42 Up-to-date $ php check-device-content.php 192.168.1.42 Out of date http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/quickstart.html
34. Monitoring with Nagios <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <nagios_status> <hosts> <host name="dev-001"> <status last_change="2013-10-08T16:27:37+02:00">0</status> <connectivity last_change="2013-10-08T16:27:37+02:00">0</connectivity> <content last_change="2013-10-08T16:27:37+02:00">0</content> <sftp last_change="2013-10-08T16:27:37+02:00">0</sftp> </host> [...]
35. Questions?
36. www.focusonemotions.com dev@focusonemotions Thank you! Feedback orestes.ca@gmail.com Team Juanra Posada Orestes Carracedo Javier Morales Dimas López Raúl Jiménez Javier Domingo Gonzalo Rodríguez Project Manager Lead Developer Developers JavaScript Ninja Sistemas