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I am using filebrowser as a content management system for corporate events where we have to manage multiple powerpoint presentations and videos that are shown from multiple laptops. The problem is that one there is a lot of content, clients frequently provide us with updates at the last minute, and sometimes provide us content while the show is "live" and the presentation laptops are currently in use. By using filebrowser and samba/NFS on a Raspberry Pi 4B with a memory stick, connected to a wifi access point we are able to pull this off.
The challenges we are still facing is managing the RPi without having to ssh into the device to do things like "sync" the file cache, properly shut down the RPi at the end of the day, or dealing with USB sticks that need an fsck because it was improperly removed. Sure, we can ssh or PuTTy into the device and do this, but I'm hoping for a more elegant and not so technically demanding way to manage the host that filebrowser resides on. Eventually I want to put this solution in the hands of AV techs that are likely NOT comfortable with using a linux command console.
If filebrowser had a facility to expand the functionality of the settings section so custom commands could be run, that would address this well. In this case a section on that page with buttons for 'file sync', 'system halt', and 'repair filesystem' that would trigger a shell script on the host would be perfect. The admin would define the name of the button to be added to this section and the name of the shell script (in linux), or batch file (in Windows) that would be executed when the button was pressed so the filebrowser code jockeys wouldn't have to worry about what these commands would actually do, that would be the responsibility of the admin.
Alternatively, if filebrowser could simply provide a hook to allow an admin to create a custom page that could help a lot. I personally like the flexibility of this better (especially if I'm not locked into GoLang), but I'm not sure which of these would be the easiest to pull off.
I imagine there are other use cases for a small mobile device to host filebrowser as well where this would be great functionality to have, but this is the burning issue use case for me.
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I am using filebrowser as a content management system for corporate events where we have to manage multiple powerpoint presentations and videos that are shown from multiple laptops. The problem is that one there is a lot of content, clients frequently provide us with updates at the last minute, and sometimes provide us content while the show is "live" and the presentation laptops are currently in use. By using filebrowser and samba/NFS on a Raspberry Pi 4B with a memory stick, connected to a wifi access point we are able to pull this off.
The challenges we are still facing is managing the RPi without having to ssh into the device to do things like "sync" the file cache, properly shut down the RPi at the end of the day, or dealing with USB sticks that need an fsck because it was improperly removed. Sure, we can ssh or PuTTy into the device and do this, but I'm hoping for a more elegant and not so technically demanding way to manage the host that filebrowser resides on. Eventually I want to put this solution in the hands of AV techs that are likely NOT comfortable with using a linux command console.
If filebrowser had a facility to expand the functionality of the settings section so custom commands could be run, that would address this well. In this case a section on that page with buttons for 'file sync', 'system halt', and 'repair filesystem' that would trigger a shell script on the host would be perfect. The admin would define the name of the button to be added to this section and the name of the shell script (in linux), or batch file (in Windows) that would be executed when the button was pressed so the filebrowser code jockeys wouldn't have to worry about what these commands would actually do, that would be the responsibility of the admin.
Alternatively, if filebrowser could simply provide a hook to allow an admin to create a custom page that could help a lot. I personally like the flexibility of this better (especially if I'm not locked into GoLang), but I'm not sure which of these would be the easiest to pull off.
I imagine there are other use cases for a small mobile device to host filebrowser as well where this would be great functionality to have, but this is the burning issue use case for me.
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