Tech Tuesday 170 - FREE Digital Signage with Google Slides

[@floris00]

for the people who want to remove the bar at the bottom when in full screen, add "&rm=minimal" to the end of your url.

[@techtuesdaytutorials]

Nice!

[@Will-lt2ov]

A slight clarification for anyone wondering... I think this was a great suggestion but I couldnt get it to work at the end of my URL. But if you use this after the part in your code that says &delayms=(YOUR AMMOUNT OF MS) example: &delayms=3000&rm=minimal then I got it to work. :)

[@去和平]

Thank you for this tutorial! Amazing channel. Sending love from NYC

[@techtuesdaytutorials]

Awesome, thanks!😃

[@stephanepaul3969]

Thanks! I've been looking for something like this for a very long time :-)

[@DavidRicardoCalderonFarias]

Amazing guide, what a powerfull slides application... it is exactly what I needed. Thanks a lot :)

[@techtuesdaytutorials]

Great to hear!

[@humorous2me]

Thank you for this. I’m eager to try it out when I get to work.

[@tempaklinegorespeters5156]

Thank you! Can you show us how to do this with Google Calendar presented on a screen using a Fire Stick?

[@HRMycah]

hi, can you make a video where you can display live date and time for a bulletin board in corporate?

[@crimsonretriever]

This is incredible! Brilliant and concise video that's saved me a lot of time and money. One question - if we removed the slide display time inside the html file, presumably setting up transition times inside Google Slides would over ride that? Would be good to have absolute control from the Google end and set potentially individual slide display times where necessary (ie a more tet heavy slide would last longer than a simple image slide). Thanks again! 🙂

[@techtuesdaytutorials]

I think the timing becomes hard coded into the embed code when you specify it, so if you change it in the Google Slides, you will need to overwrite the Embed code in the HTML.

[@crimsonretriever]

@@techtuesdaytutorials thanks for your reply and it seems that's correct. which is great. I have one other question. i don't know if there's anything in the code, but my slideshows seem to break if I place any more than 9 slides in there. With 9, no problem - it loops back to the beginning with the transition I set inside Google Slides. However anymore than 9 and the 10th slide breaks the sequence and the slideshow does a hard reset and loses the transition on the final slide. I don't know why 9 slides, Less is fine also. But once i go over tha magic number, it breaks and ruins the nice transition looping back to the beginining of the set

[@pipkato]

This looks really interesting, but is there any way to run this on something small and cheap such as an Amazon Firestick TV or a Raspberry Pi 4?

[@cool.politics]

Thank you for sharing. Is it possible to run the presentation in full screen automatically with timer for turning on and off daily.

[@techtuesdaytutorials]

Not that I know of

[@BrentVersendaal]

Thank you for this. I've been looking for a simple solution like this for a couple years. Do you know if it's possible to get youtube videos to auto play on the displays? I've added a couple to my slides and selected "Play(automatically)" but it's not working.

[@raulalfaro268]

yo logre hacerlos pero no en buclwe o pantalla completa

[@QC-Solutions]

If there are video in Google slide, any option to hide the play button and loading screen that are visible for a short amount of time at the beginning of the video?

[@techtuesdaytutorials]

Don't think so

[@theyoutubeapprentice9148]

great tutorial! Is there any way to make this private so it's not published public on the web?

[@techtuesdaytutorials]

Afraid not, but the "published" aspect doesn't advertise it. Unless you know the actual URL, you won't stumble on it

[@theyoutubeapprentice9148]

@techtuesdaytutorials ah great. I`m planing to use this as an information screen for my colugeges and don't want the info to be public

[@barbcoffey8145]

I have tried this but when I try to open the HTML file on the chromebox attached to the display, it is pointing to the C: of the desktop computer I edited it on and opens it as the code in a Google Doc rather than the html webpage. Is there a step I am missing?

[@techtuesdaytutorials]

Sounds like maybe you don't have Chrome installed? Or maybe the file wasn't saved as an HTML properly. HTML should open in a browser, not be treated as plain text.

[@rogerccaqp]

hello are u using Commercial displays or TV for Digital Signage Display ?

[@techtuesdaytutorials]

Any display because you can connect it to a Chromebook or PC

[@anthonyogas3]

Would it be possible to upload this to a usb drive to a TV that is connected to the internet?

[@techtuesdaytutorials]

No, you just link a Google Slideshow. Use a tablet or chromebook. Unless your Tv can open HTML files...

[@itsupport7466]

nice!!!

[@VTPros]

what i really want to do is be able to edit the slides from a different pc, is there a way to do this?

[@techtuesdaytutorials]

Since they are in a Google Slideshow, you can edit them from anywhere.

[@bradgamm6049]

Does this work on Mac? I have saved a .html and when opened it just directs to a browser with the same code as my text document.

[@Will-lt2ov]

When I open the htm file it only shows the code in a browser window it doesnt show my slides, is there a fix for this? Im on a mac. - EDIT - Nvm, I found a fix. Great tutorial tho! :)

[@Will-lt2ov]

I figured I´d just provide a solution to the issue if anyone else were wondering.. I used word for this, I save the file as .txt but specify in the filename .html This prompts word to ask if I want the file in txt or both. Select Both You will now get a popup window where you can select "MAC OS, MS-DOS or OTHER" I select other and then chose "Windows Latin" from the menu. I suspect you can also save the file as MS-DOS but this was my prefered method. Press OK and now just rename the file and make sure the filename ends in .html and press enter the file should change to a black icon and should now work. (You may want to backup your file as you cannot easily edit it further once it goes black)

[@techtuesdaytutorials]

Ah good catch. I always just used notepad.

[@rogerccaqp]

hello good video thanks for info pd: how is the screen Digital Signage Display connect to link url. Is in localt wifi? also I want to purchase a Digital Signage Display. Some light and not so heavy if you can be economical instead of buying a SmartTV. Any that you recommend? thank you

[@techtuesdaytutorials]

I recommend Vivi. Smart, economical, and works with any display

[@pipkato]

I think I may have found a way to run Google Slides on a Firestick using Kodi. But just realised that the setup assumes a Windows machine with Notepad. Anyone know how to convert the instructions to work with MacOS Ventura? I tried using TextEdit on the Mac but there's no option to 'Share/Publish to the web.

[@omarkhshi3442]

can I use Macbook I don't see not pad

[@audiovisualmar]

gracias! solo tengo un inconveniente. quiero reproducir solamente un video y no puedo hacaerlo de manera automatica, en pantalla completa y en bucle. hay alguna manera de hacerlo?

[@techtuesdaytutorials]

If you want the video to loop, then you really don't need to do this at all, just play the video directly, unless there's something I'm missing. (Si quieres que el video se repita, entonces realmente no necesitas hacer esto en absoluto, solo reproduce el video directamente, a menos que haya algo que me esté perdiendo.)

[@WANAHMADKHALISBINWANYAHYAAS]

HOW TO MAKE VIDEO AUTOPLAY ON HTML?

[@WANAHMADKHALISBINWANYAHYAAS]

I FOUND IT JUST ADD allow="accelerometer; autoplay;

[@raulalfaro268]

estoy buscando como hacer q se reproduzcan videos en pantalla completa en bucle sabes si se puede ? @@WANAHMADKHALISBINWANYAHYAAS

[@giaseed]

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[@giaseed]

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[@giaseed]

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[@Scott-cc4yd]

Ronald jenkees. Nice!

[@techtuesdaytutorials]

He's great! I actually licensed his music for this channel. It's legit!