Dashboard/Headless-Mode

[TheLexoPlexx]

Hi there,

I’ve been using Screego for a dashboard-TV setup and really enjoy the project. My current workflow involves running Screego in kiosk mode using the room=xyz&create=true parameters.

To make the most of the display when no one is actively sharing, I’d like to show a secondary dashboard (e.g., Grafana metrics or a rotating image feed) instead of the default "no stream available" message. I’ve experimented with a wrapper-iframe to handle the toggle, but the implementation feels a bit janky.

Has this use-case been considered before, or is there a cleaner way to implement a fallback URL when the stream is idle?

[jmattheis]

No, this use-case hasn't been considered yet, I don't think I want this fully supported in Screego as it seems like a rare usecase, but I'm open to make the workflow easier, like exposing some kind of global javascript variable for the stream state (if this would make it easier).

How does your current "janky" implementation look like?

[TheLexoPlexx]

It was a terrible gemini-driven attempt because I am not very good at any of that but basically I am running AnotterKiosk and configured nginx to inject custom javascript into the head of every page (including screego in this case).

Nginx-Config: https://gist.github.com/TheLexoPlexx/a196962e40c42f6e08b92139b9fd7c24
And then just a page with two iframes that changes the opacity between the two based on the javascript input that's been injected.

I provided tls with Caddy, which was probably kind of dumb as nginx could've done this as well, not sure though.

[jmattheis]

Okay, regarding sending the state to the parent window, I think this could be integrated into screego, screego we could expose every RoomInfo update, and this contains a list of users if they are streaming or not.

You also have auto join room functionality there, shouldn't this covered by create=true in the URL, or why do you have this?

[TheLexoPlexx]

yeah, you are right, the auto-joiner is a left-over from an earlier attempt where I hadn't learned of create=true yet.

[jmattheis]

I've created #240 for this.