MacroSignage 0.2.3

Web-based Digital Signage System

MacroSignage

MacroSignage is a Flask-based digital signage manager with an admin console, token-secured display players, scheduling, media playback, REST API access, and a standalone pywebview display client.

Status: Pre-alpha v0.2.3. Data models and API contracts can change before v1.0.

Features

• Admin dashboard with recent activity, diagnostics, and settings pages.
• Display CRUD with online, offline, and maintenance states.
• Token-secured display player pairing with remote disable/rotation.
• Media CRUD for images, text, video, HTML, YouTube, and slider media.
• Slider media with backgrounds, foreground images, fonts, positions, durations, and Animate.css effects.
• Schedule CRUD with active windows, weekday rules, display targets, playlists, and no-active-schedule fallback.
• Auth, password reset flow, user CRUD, RBAC, and API token lifecycle management.
• REST API for displays, media, schedules, users, fonts, settings, health, and player playlists.
• Server-sent events for display player refresh.
• Global logo overlay settings and managed Google Fonts.
• SQLite by default with configurable Flask-SQLAlchemy database URI support.
• Waitress-backed production CLI plus systemd and Docker examples.
• Separate pywebview client package with GitHub Release executables.

Quick Start

Install from PyPI:

pip install MacroSignage
macrosignage dev

Or run from source:

git clone https://github.com/BaezFJ/MacroSignage.git
cd MacroSignage
uv sync --all-groups
cp .env.example .env
uv run macrosignage dev

Open http://127.0.0.1:5000, then create the first admin account at /auth/setup.

Production

Use the dedicated production script behind a reverse proxy:

MACROSIGNAGE_SECRET_KEY='replace-with-a-long-random-secret' \
MACROSIGNAGE_DATABASE_URI='sqlite:////var/lib/macrosignage/macrosignage.sqlite3' \
MACROSIGNAGE_MEDIA_UPLOAD_FOLDER='/var/lib/macrosignage/media' \
MACROSIGNAGE_SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE=true \
macrosignage-prod --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8080 --threads 4

See Deployment for systemd, Docker, HTTPS, health checks, backups, restore, and rollback.

Client Executables

Prebuilt standalone display client executables are available on the GitHub Releases page:

https://github.com/BaezFJ/MacroSignage/releases

The client source package lives in client/. See Standalone Client.

Documentation

Start with docs/index.md.

Core guides:

• Installation
• Configuration
• Auth and RBAC
• Display Management and Player Pairing
• Media Library
• Scheduling and Playback
• REST API
• API Tokens
• Deployment
• Troubleshooting
• Development
• Architecture

Development Commands

uv lock --check
uv run python -m pytest
uv run python -m unittest discover -s tests
uv run python -m compileall src/macrosignage tests
uv build
uv run twine check dist/*

Release Automation

• CI runs on pull requests and pushes to main.
• PyPI publishing runs when a v* tag is pushed.
• Client executable build and release workflows produce Windows, macOS, and Linux assets.
• Release documentation review is tracked in the checklist.

v1.0 Remaining Work

• Production-hardened and fully tested (roadmap)
• Complete documentation (roadmap)
• Deployment guides for Docker, systemd, health checks, backups, and rollback

License

MacroSignage is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.

Copyright (c) 2022 Javier Baez

Links

GitHub Repository | PyPI Package | Issue Tracker