Welcome to chilipie-kiosk

Looks like this might be your first boot!

This document lists some things you can do to customize your kiosk. You'll want to plug in a keyboard at this point.

Setting the URL

Press F11 to exit the full screen mode, and Ctrl + L to focus the location bar. Navigate away! Once done, press F11 again to re-enter full screen mode.

Chromium is configured to remember the URL where you left off (and all logins etc), so this might be all the configuration you need to do!

What to show

Whatever, the Internet is your oyster! If you need simple auto-refresh, or timed cycling through several URL's, sideshow is a great option.

Getting a terminal

You can get to a virtual terminal by pressing e.g. Ctrl + Alt + F5, and logging in with pi:raspberry. Use Ctrl + Alt + F8 to switch back to the window manager.

Enabling WiFi

Set the SSID and password of the network you're connecting to, with:

$ sudo vim ~/wlan.conf

Reboot to make sure your Pi joins the network automatically.

$ sudo reboot

Enabling SSH

The default credentials of pi:raspberry aren't terribly secure, so remote access is disabled by default. To enable SSH until next reboot:

$ sudo systemctl start ssh.service

Or, to enable it permanently:

$ sudo systemctl enable ssh.service

Use ifconfig to figure out your IP address, and ssh in.

Controlling the display

The scripts ~/display-on.sh and ~/display-off.sh control the HDMI output of the Raspberry Pi.

There's a sample configuration in the crontab for turning the display off outside of office hours - use crontab -e to uncomment it.

Adjusting the output resolution

If the display auto-detection fails and chooses a funky default resolution for you, there's a few things you can do to try and fix that.

Changing locale settings

To change the keyboard layout:

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-data

To change the timezone:

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata