Product
Suede
Turns a Linux box into a display appliance you can drive across the network and trust to survive a reboot.
Media servers, video walls, scoreboards, and public information displays in the AV and broadcast world are still too often driven by a full desktop OS being remote-controlled by hand through a system intended for personal desktop use. How many times have you seen the Windows login screen in an airport, a mouse pointer on a digital sign or an update popup on a billboard?
Suede turns a Linux box into a remotely manageable display appliance. It presents a rich, responsive web interface for manual use. The web interface uses a well-documented REST + SSE API that you can use to automate operation. Configuration is declarative: you describe the state you want, and Suede's reconciler keeps reality matching it through reboots, display hotplugs, and application crashes. There is a wide array of endpoints for monitoring many aspects of the appliance's health.
Suede is tested with plain Debian, Ubuntu, and Raspberry Pi OS across x86-64 and aarch64. It uses Sway to manage the system's video outputs via Wayland.