2023-06-29 22:30:21 +02:00
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2023-06-29 22:14:05 +02:00
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Another kiosk browser OS?
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Yes, this one is a little bit opinionated :)
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The author ran several similar setups in production for years and has seen a lot of problems and strange failure modes.
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This project aims to solve a lot of those (at least for the author), it might also be useful for others :)
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Key features:
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- Images built via CI
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- WiFi connection support
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- Raspberry Pi (Arm64) compatibility
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- USB flash drive, USB SSD, etc. compatible
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- aarch64 mode for Raspberry Pis (_significant_ performance improvements over armv7/32bit ARM)
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- Read-only filesystem handling (no more broken SD cards)
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- Configurable cache clear functionality
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- HTTP watchdog (website needs to send heartbeat messages via XHR/AJAX to localhost)
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- Force specific resolution (1080p on 4k screens, broken EDID, etc.)
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- Hard NTP handling (will wait for NTP at boot)
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- SSH support
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- VNC support
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- SSH tunneling support (for remote-access without port-forwarding, etc.)
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Planned features:
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- PC (x86) compatibility
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- Raspberry Pi PXE/network boot support
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- Network connectivity watchdog (configurable ping, etc. timeout)
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- Automatic reboot at specified time
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Security considerations:
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- Autossh does not check SSH host keys. This is okay-ish as long as the target server only allows tunneling, nothing else.
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- nginx/PHP are allowed to use sudo/NOPASSWD (because it needs to query the VideoCore, manage service, etc.), more priviledge seperation would be nice
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2023-06-29 22:30:21 +02:00
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- due to the skeleton mechanism, the system has some ... creative permissions. some cleanup required.
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Inspirations / Other Kiosk-OSes:
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- https://github.com/jareware/chilipie-kiosk/
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- https://github.com/guysoft/FullPageOS
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