Using new Raspberry Pi Pixel to setup a fullscreen chromium kiosk
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Download Raspbian Jessie minimum version is September 2016 (PIXEL release).
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Transfer image onto SD / micro-SD card as usual (probably a good idea to copy a wpa_supplicant.conf onto SD to setup wifi)
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Boot the raspberry pi, check you have internet connectivity, then install prerequisites, if necessary.
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Use git to download the repo
git clone https://github.com/bmcbm/rpi-pixel-kiosk cd rpi-pixel-kiosk
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Install prerequisites
bash prerequisites.sh
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Install the kiosk:
cd rpi-pixel-kiosk bash install.sh
- We use systemD so that the browser restarts if it crashes (this also means we can kill the browser if it gets too hungry)
- It is still possible if a keyboard is attached to navigate the system
- This is an internal project, built for fun, shared in-case it helps, please contribute issues, PR's, make it awesome!
- To change the URL, you want to edit this line of this file.
- To change from powersaving to no screen blanking create a file in the boot partition called
alwayson
. Alternatively you can usesudo touch /boot/alwayson
or appropriate method to create a file at/boot/alwayson
from the Pi