A Dashboard Kiosk based on a Raspberry Pi.

It started out as dashboard.sh, switch-tab.sh and tabs.txt but it is a little bit more now it supports:

• running from 9 to 5 and going down at night
• installation using an installation script
• cycling through wifi connections every month
• self updates based on git tags

The basics

dashboard.sh opens chromium in kiosk mode with a tab for each url in ~/.config/pipeline-kiosk/tabs.txt. switch-tabs.sh cycles through the browser tabs and refreshes all tabs once in a while.

Why switch-tabs.sh rather than a browserplugin?

Browser plugins:

• are an extra dependency
• will go end of life afer some time
• do generally not support refreshing the tabs once in a while

We need the latter, to make sure the browsertab's session is kept open.

Installing

On your pi run

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qwaneu/pi-dashboard-kiosk/refs/heads/main/kiosk-scripts/install.sh
chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh

Then follow instructions.

System requirements

• raspberry-pi 4 model b or higher
• assumed to run wayland rather than xorg (although adapting the configuration to xorg shouldn't be hard)

Configuring the pi

Configuring the pi this is still a manual process. But will be developed to be scripted later.

1. create an image

Use the following documentation to create an image

2. install run the installation

See installing