Multis Browser

This app helps to display HTML content on multiple displays connected to one machine.

Use Case

You want to show your custom dashboards, selected websites or a timetable wall like the ones used on the airport using one machine and multiple monitors.

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Problem

First you think OK no big deal but if you start working on it, you’ll see it’s not that simple task.

See these postings as reference:

• Blog Post by Oleksandr Tomin
• Still looking for driver independent solution

Solution

Use Multis and setup you list of URLs to show on each attached display/monitor. Multis will open a browser instance for each URL in fullscreen mode on the corresponding monitor.

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Attention: in current version you need to restart Multis after your initial URL setup.

Features

• Manage multiple monitor kiosk setup
• Connect with MQTT server to remotely manage your kiosk

Future Ideas

Growing list of ideas, other packages to integrate etc.

• Pretty logger for development
• List of URLs sortable via Drag’n’Drop
• More options per URL or monitor (e.g. fullscreen optional)
• Switch to electron-builder
• Extended MQTT interface
• you name it …

Get Started

Run Multis on your local machine.

npm install
npm start

Build for deployment (currently MAC only)

npm run build-mac

License