Difference between revisions of "Hardware: Raspberry Pi - Dashboard (Kiosk)"

Revision as of 17:47, 3 May 2016

Do You have spare RPi and big monitor / TV ? If yes then let's try to build dashboard. There are several ways how to get "data" on screen. Most common is to use browser to do all rendering and remote connections. This article describe configuration using browser. Browser needs X11 subsystem and there are several ways how to start X11 + Browser. I selected two common options.

Base OS

I recommend Rasbian installed using unattended installer. Keyboard is not necessary to perform installation and re-instillation. This article describe re-installation but with small modification you can use it also as initial installation. Raspbian UA installer can be obtained from release page or homepage.

Step 1

Cleanup /boot and replace it with installer.

cd /root
wget https://github.com/debian-pi/raspbian-ua-netinst/releases/download/v1.0.8.1/raspbian-ua-netinst-v1.0.8.1.zip

cd /boot
rm -rf *

unzip /root/raspbian-ua-netinst-v1.0.8.1.zip

Step 2

Configure root file system type, password and hostname / domain.

Invoke editor:

vi /boot/installer-config.txt

Insert following lines:

hostname=RPi-hostname
domainname=localhost.localdomain
rootpw=root
rootfstype=btrfs

Alter hostname/domainname to fit your installation.

Step 3

Start installation:

cd /
umount /boot

reboot -f