Rotating display of Plex posters meant for a vertical TV or monitor.
Available as a binary and Docker container.
You can run Poster Box in one of two ways:
Install on Mac OS with:
$ brew install JakeWharton/repo/posterbox
For other platforms, download ZIP from
latest release
and run bin/posterbox or bin/posterbox.bat.
$ posterbox --help
Usage: posterbox [OPTIONS] CONFIG
HTTP server for Poster Box frontend
Options:
--port PORT Port for the HTTP server (default 9931)
-h, --help Show this message and exit
Arguments:
CONFIG TOML config file
The container starts the webserver on port 9931.
It expects to load the configuration TOML from /config/config.toml so mount a volume accordingly.
$ docker run -it --rm
-v /path/to/config:/config \
jakewharton/posterbox
version: '2'
services:
posterbox:
image: jakewharton/posterbox
restart: unless-stopped
volumes:
- /path/to/config:/configThe configuration file allows customization of behavior and specifies the source of content. All top-level keys and sections are optional. An empty configuration file is technically valid, but will result in no content being displayed.
# Duration each item is displayed as an ISO 8601 duration string (optional).
# See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Durations.
# Value: must be positive duration
# Default: "PT15S" (15 seconds)
itemDisplayDuration = "PT10S"
# Transition between items (optional).
# Value: "none", "fade", "crossfade", "slide-right", or "slide-left"
# Default: "fade"
itemTransition = "slide-right"
# Use Plex as a content source.
# This section is optional but has required keys if it is present.
[plex]
# Plex host URL (required).
# Value: String containing DNS hostname or IP with protocol and optional port.
host = "http://plexms:32800"
# Plex authentication token (required).
# See https://support.plex.tv/articles/204059436-finding-an-authentication-token-x-plex-token/.
# Value: String
token = "abc123"
# Libraries from which to pull posters (optional). No matter the contents of this array,
# only entries of type "movie" or "show" will be used.
# Value: Array of case-sensitive library names or null to use all available libraries.
# Default: null
libraries = [ "Movies", "TV Shows" ]
# Minimum rating cut-off for poster inclusion (optional). Content with no rating is
# treated as having a rating of 0. Audience rating takes precedence over critic rating.
# Value: Whole number in the range [0, 100]
# Default: 0
minimumRating = 40
# Duration between synchronizing items from Plex server as an ISO 8601 duration
# string (optional). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Durations.
# Value: String containing positive duration
# Default: "PT15M" (15 minutes)
syncIntervalDuration = "PT30M"To run the latest code build with ./gradlew installDist. This will put the application into
build/install/posterbox/. From there you can use the command-line instructions
to run.
The Docker container can be built with docker build ..
Poster Box was inspired by Posterr which is a far more feature-filled and customizable tool. Posterr was not able to run smoothly on my Raspberry Pi Zero due to its use of a jQuery-based carousel and creating DOM nodes for every poster when loaded. Poster Box has only two sets of DOM elements which are updated when off-screen and animated using CSS animations. If you like Poster Box but wish it had more features and integrated with more tools you should try Posterr!
Copyright 2022 Jake Wharton
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