Raspberry Pi 4: Digital Menu & Information Board with Twister OS
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This video is a tutorial on how use Raspberry Pi 4 to create a Digital Restaurant Menu or Information Board. This setup can be used in Restaurants, Coffee shops or as an information board in a business.
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Items used in this video:
- Raspberry Pi 4 with HDMI cable and power adapter.
- A flat screen TV with HDMI port.
Link mentioned in the video:
Commands used:
sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt-get install xdotool unclutter sed
nano /home/pi/kiosk.sh
#!/bin/bash xset s noblank xset s off xset -dpms
unclutter -idle 0.5 -root &
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
/usr/bin/chromium-browser --noerrdialogs --disable-infobars --kiosk file:///home/pi/documents/
while true; do xdotool keydown ctrl+Tab; xdotool keyup ctrl+Tab; sleep 15 done
xdotool keydown ctrl+r; xdotool keyup ctrl+r;
echo $DISPLAY
sudo nano /lib/systemd/system/kiosk.service
[Unit] Description=Chromium Kiosk Wants=graphical.target After=graphical.target
[Service] Environment=DISPLAY=:0.0 Environment=XAUTHORITY=/home/pi/.Xauthority Type=simple ExecStart=/bin/bash /home/pi/kiosk.sh Restart=on-abort User=pi Group=pi
[Install] WantedBy=graphical.target
sudo systemctl enable kiosk.service
sudo systemctl start kiosk.service
Reboot ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tm9UfFhN_s
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