I have experimented a bit with the raspberry pi to drive some TV's around our office. Stock Raspberian OS with different browsers. Unfortunately I was kind of underwhelmed by the performance: tv.giphy.com already is kind of too heavy, and even geckoboard is to heavy to run on a raspberry..
Or am I missing some great performance tweaks?
FullPageOS – A RaspberryPi distro to display a full page browser on boot
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Re: FullPageOS – A RaspberryPi distro to display a full page browser on boot
#12Are there Linux distros dedicated to kiosk mode?
There's https://www.google.com/work/chrome/devices/for-kiosks/ but I never tried it.
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#14I built something like this[0] at a past job based on Yocto Linux and Midori. I targetted at the SolidRun CuBox because shipping an RPi to customer site didn't communicate the level of professionalism we were looking for. :)
My goals were small size and building something very secure, and I think I pulled it off. The resulting disk image is on the order of a couple hundred megabytes, iirc (X is very big), and it does not permit interactive login by default (no ssh). It also runs the root filesystem in read-only mode. As a bonus, you get the entire Yocto ecosystem.
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#15I've achieved this with a few lines of bash on the default Pi distro. I don't really see the benefit unless there's added advantage of Chromium being accelerated? (Last time I checked it was not. Not only that HTML5 Audio was missing too). For anyone interested heres a dirty bash script I had: 1. Auto Login & Disable Screen Blanking: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=18200 , http://elinux.org/RPi…
It can be even easier by just autostarting:
iceweasel "https://www.google.com"
Or, you can take advantage of this almost two years old bug related to full screen mode: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1049807
It takes ~1 minute for my RPi2 to boot and start IceWeasel, but it gets the job done in the quickest way possible.
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#16I've achieved this with a few lines of bash on the default Pi distro. I don't really see the benefit unless there's added advantage of Chromium being accelerated? (Last time I checked it was not. Not only that HTML5 Audio was missing too). For anyone interested heres a dirty bash script I had: 1. Auto Login & Disable Screen Blanking: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=18200 , http://elinux.org/RPi…
Sweet, I've been wanting to create an OS on a RasPi, and your project just made it easier. Thanks! I was going to use Electron, but I guess Chromium is good too. I'll have to change some things to make it work with my FeathersJS app.
You were going to make an OS with electron? Can you expound on how you planned to do this?
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#17This would be fantastic if it supported automatic updates. I want to forget about the machine and just have a webpage on the screen.
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#18Are there Linux distros dedicated to kiosk mode?
Webconverger.
Re: FullPageOS – A RaspberryPi distro to display a full page browser on boot
#19I've achieved this with a few lines of bash on the default Pi distro. I don't really see the benefit unless there's added advantage of Chromium being accelerated? (Last time I checked it was not. Not only that HTML5 Audio was missing too). For anyone interested heres a dirty bash script I had: 1. Auto Login & Disable Screen Blanking: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=18200 , http://elinux.org/RPi…
It's pretty common in the raspberry pi community to create single purpose pre-made SD card images that are all ready to use, this is just another one of those. It's neat, reminds me of popping in an boot floppy in ye olden days.
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#20I have experimented a bit with the raspberry pi to drive some TV's around our office. Stock Raspberian OS with different browsers. Unfortunately I was kind of underwhelmed by the performance: tv.giphy.com already is kind of too heavy, and even geckoboard is to heavy to run on a raspberry.. Or am I missing some great performance tweaks?
Just out of curiosity, which Pi have you been using?