Re: [Dorset] New Kiosk Project
On 28/04/17 22:15, Andrew wrote: Hi Tim, Totally ignoring your want to use Debian... :) I've not got any Linux kiosks running in the wild yet, but I keep meaning to make one to replace a Windows machine... I found Porteus Kiosk a while ago and have been meaning to try it: http://porteus-kiosk.org/ So when I read your message I decided to download and install Porteus Kiosk to give it a go. It does seem fairly simple. There's quite a few options, but it seems easy to set it up to only allow access to one web site so I think it'll do what you want. The installer creates a text configuration file. You might want to get a separate USB stick ready to store the configuration file on, so you can edit/re-install with it at a later date. You can install it to a hard disk, possibly to a USB stick although I haven't tried that. If you want the kiosk browser machine to be running for a long time (eg. on all day for many years) then you might want to use an SSD rather than a hard disk, just because hard disks have a tendency to suffer mechanical failure. I suspect Porteus doesn't write to the disk at all after it's booted, but I haven't actually checked that yet. Thanks Andrew, just a quick update, I have installed Porteus Kiosk 3.7. While I have not had much time to play with it, I have set up the parameters and got it locked to the one web site as I wanted and it seems to work. There is a newer version but from version 4 onwards it is only available for 64bit machine, 3.7 is the last of the 32bit installs. Tim -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2017-05-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
Re: [Dorset] New Kiosk Project
>> I found Porteus Kiosk a while ago and have been meaning to try it: >> http://porteus-kiosk.org/ That looks handy! Thanks! -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2017-05-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
Re: [Dorset] New Kiosk Project
On 28/04/17 22:15, Andrew wrote: Hi Tim, Totally ignoring your want to use Debian... :) I've not got any Linux kiosks running in the wild yet, but I keep meaning to make one to replace a Windows machine... I found Porteus Kiosk a while ago and have been meaning to try it: http://porteus-kiosk.org/ So when I read your message I decided to download and install Porteus Kiosk to give it a go. It does seem fairly simple. There's quite a few options, but it seems easy to set it up to only allow access to one web site so I think it'll do what you want. The installer creates a text configuration file. You might want to get a separate USB stick ready to store the configuration file on, so you can edit/re-install with it at a later date. You can install it to a hard disk, possibly to a USB stick although I haven't tried that. If you want the kiosk browser machine to be running for a long time (eg. on all day for many years) then you might want to use an SSD rather than a hard disk, just because hard disks have a tendency to suffer mechanical failure. I suspect Porteus doesn't write to the disk at all after it's booted, but I haven't actually checked that yet. Cheer Andrews, I dug out the PC from its dusty cupboard and fired it up...or at least tried to. It failed to bootup, so I opened it up and found that I had removed the memory and the hard disk at some stage!! Fortunately I have a supply of old disks and old memory so I was able to get the PC running, I have downloaded the ISO image so will burn it to disk later and then try it out. Tim -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2017-05-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
Re: [Dorset] New Kiosk Project
Hi Tim, Totally ignoring your want to use Debian... :) I've not got any Linux kiosks running in the wild yet, but I keep meaning to make one to replace a Windows machine... I found Porteus Kiosk a while ago and have been meaning to try it: http://porteus-kiosk.org/ So when I read your message I decided to download and install Porteus Kiosk to give it a go. It does seem fairly simple. There's quite a few options, but it seems easy to set it up to only allow access to one web site so I think it'll do what you want. The installer creates a text configuration file. You might want to get a separate USB stick ready to store the configuration file on, so you can edit/re-install with it at a later date. You can install it to a hard disk, possibly to a USB stick although I haven't tried that. If you want the kiosk browser machine to be running for a long time (eg. on all day for many years) then you might want to use an SSD rather than a hard disk, just because hard disks have a tendency to suffer mechanical failure. I suspect Porteus doesn't write to the disk at all after it's booted, but I haven't actually checked that yet. -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2017-05-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
[Dorset] New Kiosk Project
I am going to make a Kiosk PC which can only access one web site, the question is how? I have a PC, I intend to install to hard disk rather than run from DVD or USB, I want to use Debian as the base distro (it is what I am most familiar with). I would prefer auto-login and auto-launch of the browser. I have had a look on google and there is loads of stuff listed but has anybody done the same, what are the must haves and best to avoid? I would appreciate any pointers anybody has. regards Tim -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2017-05-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
