@QMcKay I bought it from Jaycar Australia. It has been since discontinued.
This is the listing in the NZ Jaycar store http://www.jaycar.co.nz/productView.asp?ID=QM3748.
Amazon have a similar monitor http://www.amazon.com/MIMO-UM-710S-Powered-Swivel-Display/dp/B002RMPASG.
Any monitor will work. I picked this one as it is USB powered and plug & play - perfect for a laptop or small form factor PC.
This looks brilliant emre. Will try this in the future.
If people do their adverts in flash, they can animate them too.
As well as the pub, we have a digital signage company that we’re currently running trials with Heineken in the UK, brilliantly we can now display the digital signage adverts on a display along with the receipt.
This is an example of what I intend to try and achieve.
Now all I need to do is find a screen.
I still can’t get over how fantastic this idea is! These displays cost about the same as a dumb Pole Display. I’m seriously going to order one (or 2 or 3) of these displays, perhaps in different sizes… I see some on Amazon that are 16-inch for less than the 7-inch!
Are we only limited by the number of available USB ports on the host computer? Could we use one for a Kitchen Display and another for the Customer-facing display?
Because the live.js file poles the IIS Express at a fast rate to make sure it captures every change to the main.html file, multiple displays may increase CPU loading in the PC.
Plus the monitors get their power through the USB, so you need to be careful plugging to many in as it may cause issues.
Larger displays may require an external power supply, these should be ok to use multiple.
@QMcKay, these are non-touch, so how do you plan on using it as a kitchen display ? If your using an Entity Screen for the kitchen display, then it’s not practical to have the display also running on a pos terminal. SambaPOS runs only on one screen.
Hey guys,
Im trying to get this working by using the second extensive tutorial in this post. I got everything working besides a few bugs.
Thank You for your time.
Okay so I think the issue is my printer template for second screen ticket. I just copied what was above exactly:
[LAYOUT]
– General layout
Total $ {TICKET TOTAL}
----------------------- Items -------------------------
{ORDERS}
[----------------------- Notes -------------------------
{NOTE}
]
[-------------------------------------------------------
[Rounding|${CALCULATION TOTAL:Auto Round Up}]
[Rounding|${CALCULATION TOTAL:Auto Round Down}]
Amount Tendered|${TENDERED TOTAL}
Change Due|${CHANGE TOTAL}]
-
T H A N K Y O U
[ORDERS]
– Default format for orders
{QUANTITY}x {NAME}|${TOTAL AMOUNT}
{ORDER TAGS}
[ORDERS:Gift]
– Format for gifted orders
{QUANTITY}x {NAME}|GIFT
{ORDER TAGS}
[ORDERS:Void]
– Nothing will print for void lines
[ORDER TAGS]
– Format for order tags
{ORDER TAG NAME} - RRP ${PRICE}
I think you need to use <L00>, <J00> or <C00> in the template
Hello Sid_collins,
Really love your design, would you mind show me how making it.
Thanks
Its actually not difficult his is pretty simple. All you would need is some html code to insert an image which he has displayed and scale it to size. Then you could put the text under and format it with css. I am currently working on a much more advanced setup for advertising on a second screen that involves html or flash animations to show ads. I will release my project within a months time as I am very busy until mid december.
Follow the tuturial on this thread and you should be able to accomplish what he has above with some additional html manipulation. Also learn some basic html and css on youtube, it will help alot.
@eddhasaj Hi there, I imported @JohnS zip file into the database to try these features out, everything works as expected for the main.html file. It behaves as per your description above i.e.: all items listed on one line.
I tried troubleshooting this and realised the HTML headers seem to be replaced every time a Ticket action occurs i.e. the main.html only lists the “Order Tags” and has no "<html> or <body>" tags.
How did you fix this situation if I may ask? Thanks in advance
Sorry its been a while since I was working with that. Did you try the <L00> in front of all the context in the print template in samba. @satianv
@eddhasaj I edited your post. If you use the </> button after highlighting it they will show properly.
New stuff is happening behind the scenes. Lots of cool things. I cant really speak for when any releases will happen but it will definitely be worth the wait 
yeah haha I check everyday… so excited. Do you know if he will be including any of the sub items feature he had once released a preview of? @kendash
Gents thanks for helping. attached is the standard template that has been imported directly from John’s zip file above. I have reattached the template for your reference. Also a screen shot of the the edit “main.html” after a ticket is settled. Note: the HTML tags are missing at the top, only Ticket text is maintained.
Archive.zip (36.7 KB)
Yes still needing help. Sorry I wasn’t clear with my earlier post.
I maybe missing an understanding of exactly where I need to place the L00 tags
BTW @Hasa to answer your question
The answer is… Cheese.Hard lol sorry inside joke… anyway like I said lots of cool things going on 