title: Looking for solution for an automatically scrolling information board
body: <p>Right now, my company has about 40 information boards scattered throughout the buildings with information relevant to each area.  Each unit is a small linux based device that is programmed to launch an RDP session, log in with a user name and password, and pull up the appropriate powerpoint and start playing.  The boards would go down every 4 hours for about 5 minutes, copy over a new version of a presentation (if applicable) and restart.</p>
  
  <p>We now have "demands" for live data.  Unfortunately I believe powerpoint will no longer be an option as we used the Powerpoint viewer, which does not support plugins.  I wanted to use Google Slides, but also have the restriction that we cannot have a public facing service like Google Drive, so there goes that idea.</p>
  
  <p>I was thinking of some kind of way to launch a web browser and have it rotate through a list of specified webpages (perhaps stored in a txt or csv file).  I found a way to launch Firefox and have it autologin to OBIEE via python:</p>
  
  <pre><code>#source: http://obitool.blogspot.com/2012/12/automatic-login-script-for-obiee-11g_12.html
  
  import unittest
  from selenium import webdriver
  from selenium.webdriver.firefox.firefox_profile import FirefoxProfile
  
  
  # Hardcoding this information is usually not a good Idea!
  user       = ''   # Put your user name here
  password   = ''   # Put your password here
  serverName = ''   # Put Host name here
  
  
  class OBIEE11G(unittest.TestCase):
  
      def setUp(self):
  
          # Create a new profile
          self.fp = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
          self.fp.set_preference("browser.download.folderList",2)
          self.fp.set_preference("browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting",False)
  
          # Associate the profile with the Firefox selenium session
          self.driver   = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=self.fp)
          self.driver.implicitly_wait(2)
  
          # Build the Analytics url and save it for the future
          self.base_url = "http://" + serverName + ":9704/analytics"
  
  def login(self):
  
          # Retreive the driver variables created in setup
          driver = self.driver
  
          # Goto the loging page
          driver.get(self.base_url + "/")
  
          # The 11G login Page has following elements on it
          driver.find_element_by_id("sawlogonuser").clear()
          driver.find_element_by_id("sawlogonuser").send_keys(user)
          driver.find_element_by_id("sawlogonpwd").clear()
          driver.find_element_by_id("sawlogonpwd").send_keys(password)
          driver.find_element_by_id("idlogon").click()
  
  
      def test_OBIEE11G(self):
          self.login()
  
  #
  if __name__ == "__main__":
      unittest.main()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If I can use this, I would just need a way to rotate to a new webpage every 30 seconds.  Any ideas / recommendations?</p>