Home network is mostly Gentoo. I'm thinking about doing a mail/file/print server on one of these small computers. Nothing urgent, just watching things evolve, but I like the idea of low power for those functions. Low traffic (small network), so speed is not much of an issue. Using an old laptop for that function now (880 days uptime).
>>> What are you running for an OS? <<<
Something called ‘Raspbian’ that’s a specific version of Debian which is some kind of Unix stuff.
I’m an old DOS guy who used to program in Q-BASIC and MASM before Windows, and this is my first sortie into the Unix world so I don’t know diddly about it. Just that there are upgrades about once a week...
The native programming language is Python but I haven’t put any effort into working with it.
That was kind of a half-assed answer. I’ve been up since 3 am and I’m kind of crashing at the moment.
There are multiple systems available for Pi at least one of which (that I can’t think of the name of) is intended for operating audio-visual systems that might be what you need for your application.
Start at the Raspberry Pi website and then go from there. I’m pretty sure someone has already done something similar that might get you off to a good start.