pi-kiosk - Raspberry Pi kiosk

So I had a Raspberry Pi and I wanted it just to be a kiosk to display some web pages with very little touch

Assuming you have a Raspberry Pi already setup and working. Let is lookk at how we can make a simple kiosk

Want the easy option 

curl -LJO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LukeKeam/pi-kiosk/master/install.sh && sudo bash ./install.sh

or checkout the github 

https://github.com/LukeKeam/pi-kiosk   

The longer version! 

Install the tools

sudo apt-get update && apt-get install sed xdotool chromium -y

Make the run file in your home directory

sudo mkdir /pi-kiosk

nano /pi-kiosk/pi-kiosk.sh

Feel free to copy and past this part and edit as you please

# Disable screen saver and power management
xset s noblank
xset s off
xset -dpms


# Remove mouse, needed?
# unclutter -idle 0.5 -root &


# Remove Chromium errors "Chromium didnt shutdown error"
sed -i 's/"exited_cleanly":false/"exited_cleanly":true/' /home/pi/.config/chromium/Default/Preferences
sed -i 's/"exit_type":"Crashed"/"exit_type":"Normal"/' /home/pi/.config/chromium/Default/Preferences


# Launch Chromium
# added some of my sites as an example
/usr/bin/chromium --start-fullscreen --noerrdialogs --disable-infobars 'https://techgeek.biz' 'https://quick-time-management.com' 'https://average-athlete.com' 'https://techgeek.biz/raspberry-pi' 'https://fleet-track.org' 'https://github.com/LukeKeam' &

# while chromium launches
sleep 30

# Do loop, has a ping test just incase it is offline. Displays previous page rather than updating it and showing offline
while true; do
    if ping -c 1 google.com &> /dev/null; then
        # move tab
        xdotool keydown ctrl+Tab; xdotool keyup ctrl+Tab
        # refresh page
        xdotool keydown ctrl+F5; xdotool keyup ctrl+F5
        sleep 30
    else
        xdotool keydown ctrl+Tab; xdotool keyup ctrl+Tab;
        sleep 30
    fi

done

Make a service

append_line='[Unit]
Description=pi-kiosk
Wants=graphical.target
After=graphical.target

[Service]
User=pi
Environment=DISPLAY=:0.0
Environment=XAUTHORITY=/home/pi/.Xauthority
Type=simple
ExecStart=/bin/bash /pi-kiosk/pi-kiosk.sh
Restart=on-abort

[Install]
WantedBy=graphical.target'

echo "$append_line" | sudo tee /lib/systemd/system/pi-kiosk.service

Enable service and start it

sudo systemctl enable pi-kiosk.service
sudo systemct start pi-kiosk.service

All done! This will restart if the pi is restarted and continue to run always!!!!

Hope you enjoyed