CM3-Panel-7-basic technical documentation Buy
How to configure the CM3-PANEL-7 as a Chromium Kiosk
This how-tos explains how to create a simple Chromium Kiosk with the minimal amount of software installed
Create a Rasbian lite microSD following this article: https://www.acmesystems.it/CM3-PANEL-7-BASIC_microsd
Install the following packages:
sudo apt update
sudo apt -y install chromium-browser xorg xterm
Create a systemd file to launch Chromium at startup:
sudo nano /lib/systemd/system/chromium.service
Insert this content changing http://localhost:1880/ui with the url you want to open after the boot.
[Unit]
Description=Launch Chromium
After=systemd-user-sessions.service
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/xinit -bg black -fg black -geometry 132x36 -e "runuser pi -c 'chromium-browser --incognito -kiosk --check-for-update-interval=300000000 --disable-pinch --overscroll-history-navigation=0 --window-position=0,0 --window-size=800,480 http://localhost:1880/ui'" -- -nocursor -s 0 -dpms
Restart=on-abort
User=root
WorkingDirectory=/home/pi
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Enable the new service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable chromium
Reboot or launch the service by hand now:
sudo systemctl start chromium
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Systems designer, webmaster of www.acmesystems.it and founder of Acme Systems srl
Personal email: tanzilli@acmesystems.it
Web pages: https://www.acmesystems.it --- https://www.acmestudio.it
Github repositories: https://github.com/tanzilli --- https://github.com/acmesystems
Telegram group dedicated to the Acme Systems boards: https://t.me/acmesystemssrl
