shaunmulligan/resin-epiphany-kiosk

Simple web kiosk using epiphany browser and Resin.io

Epiphany Kiosk On Resin.io

This is a basic example of how to launch a basic Web page on the HDMI screen of a device. It uses a Epiphany Browser and matchbox, a lightweight window manager.

This demo should run on RPI 1 and 2

It is also recommended that you increase the amount of memory given to the GPU on the RPI, you can do this by mounting the SD card on your Computer and opening the config.txt file in the resin-boot partition.

In config.txt you will need to comment out the line:

gpu_mem=16

and uncomment the line:

##gpu_mem=256

This can be done by removing the leading ##.

You can change the default URL by setting an environment variable in your Resin.io dashboard. Just create a variable called URL and set the value to the web address.

Note: The first build and push will take a long while

####Currently not working.

• Youtube videos work, but the lag is incredibly bad.

SSH into the running container.

This starts an openssh server on port 22. You can then ssh into the running container using ssh root@<IP_ADDRESS> the default password for root is resin.

At after pushing you may encounter and re-sshing back into the device you may encounter this error message as the host key changes when an update occurs on the device.

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@    WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!     @
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IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!
Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)!
It is also possible that a host key has just been changed.

To get around this remove the key.

$ ssh-keygen -R <YOUR-PI'S-IP>

It will then work as expected

$ @root<YOUR-PI'S-IP>

resin-epiphany-kiosk's Issues

Missing X server

When I run this, I get error messages about missing an X server.

20.03.16 12:07:55 [-0700] xinit: unable to run server "X": No such file or directory
20.03.16 12:07:55 [-0700] Use the -- option, or make sure that /usr/bin is in your path and
20.03.16 12:07:55 [-0700] that "X" is a program or a link to the right type of server
20.03.16 12:07:55 [-0700] for your display. Possible server names include:
20.03.16 12:07:55 [-0700]
20.03.16 12:07:55 [-0700] Xorg Common X server for most displays
20.03.16 12:07:55 [-0700] Xvfb Virtual frame buffer
20.03.16 12:07:55 [-0700] Xfake kdrive-based virtual frame buffer
20.03.16 12:07:55 [-0700] Xnest X server nested in a window on another X server
20.03.16 12:07:55 [-0700] Xephyr kdrive-based nested X server
20.03.16 12:07:55 [-0700] Xvnc X server accessed over VNC's RFB protocol
20.03.16 12:07:55 [-0700] Xdmx Distributed Multi-head X server
20.03.16 12:07:55 [-0700]
20.03.16 12:08:10 [-0700] xinit: giving up
20.03.16 12:08:10 [-0700] xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
20.03.16 12:08:10 [-0700] xinit: server error