Hey Folks, I’ve made a couple kiosks in the past around the house, but I’m hoping there’s an easier solution out there. Previously I’d install raspbian or something on to a pi and then remote into a full-screened chromium to set it up.
Does anyone know of a good OS that theoretically boot directly to a URL with minimal effort? Like I said I can do it manually but I’d like something pre-built for the task.
Bonus points if it would have a web-configurator, I may want to change the URL it’s using occasionally and it’d be nice not to have to remote in directly.
I don't know of an OS or distro dedicated to this, but it should be pretty easy using cage-kiosk, a window manager that only allows for a single window, and cog, a very basic web app container.
Install cage and cog on whatever distro you want, setup autologin, then in your ~/.profile add something like
cage -- /usr/bin/cog https://example.comIt should boot directly to the webpage at that point. Make sure to set up ssh before you do all this! System management might get tricky if you dont
Thanks, is there an install guide? I looked over their wiki and I can't find anywhere that says "so here's how you install this"
If your doing this on a pi with raspian, both of these packages should be available. You can run
sudo apt install cage cogin a terminal to install both of them.Oh. Well that's simple then. From their docs it didn't sound like it was in the repos. Cool then!
Have not tried it but came across this some time ago. https://github.com/guysoft/FullPageOS
