Raspberry pi kiosk mode for wall panel

happnatious1 · January 14, 2024, 7:05pm

Can anyone point to a setup tutorial to run a browser on a Raspberry pi touchscreen in kiosk mode that actually works.

This one loads a blank screen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hN0_yGVdUQ

this one How to use a Raspberry Pi in kiosk mode - Raspberry Pi There is no such file as .config/wayfire.ini

I’ve tried a few others with equally disappointing results.

happnatious1 · January 14, 2024, 9:40pm

Just tried this one too: Headless Raspberry Pi Preparation Guide

Another blank screen.

Is it because Home assistant wants me to login and popups are blocked in kiosk mode?

pkscout · January 14, 2024, 10:03pm

I have a simple weather clock that I run in kiosk mode using the stock Chromium browser, or at least a mode that hides all the menu and scroll bars and uses the Kiosk Mode front end mod. Here’s a breakdown of what I did. Maybe something in there will help you.

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/pkscout/d35adeb3effdee6647fd4c5d3d422f94

rpi-weather-clock.md

# Simple Weather Clock
## Introduction
I have always wanted a clock that gives me a little weather info.  The problem is that most weather stations want to give you 40 different pieces of information in little text that you have to be standing right next to read, and I wanted to be able to see this sitting on my couch.  Thus was born the Simple Weather Clock. This gist documents the various pieces of hardware and software needed to construct it.

![simple-weather-clock](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1402018/181948669-6b67fb74-e21d-4d7e-a1c9-c8fd11747b7c.png)


## Hardware
The core of the weather clock is a Raspberry Pi.  All this should work with any Raspberry Pi model as long as it has network connectivity of some sort.  If you want to do auto dimming of the display, you need the official Raspberry Pi 7" touchscreen and a Pi Camera (or I2C light sensor).  Here's the full list of hardware I use:

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happnatious1 · January 15, 2024, 8:25pm

So it looks like there is an issue with startx on raspberry pi lite os. All tutorials that I’ve found suffer from the same problem of crashing the xserver on startup and not finding the console. I’ll have to switch to a full raspberry pi desktop instead.