Porteus Kiosk 3.1 feedback
Posted: 26 May 2014, 14:40
Hello,
firstly i want to thank the Proteus Team for this great and lightweight Linux distro. Porteus was my first foray into the Linux world and its going pretty nicely at the moment.
I was specifically looking for a (portable) and lightweight Kiosk Distro, and Porteus is exactly what i need here. However there are a few small quirks that you may be able to help me with.
My project at the moment is to build a reliable platform for a so called "Welcome-Screen". It is supposed to be a big TV screen with a VESA-mounted Net-top-PC running porteus, standing in the lobby of a car-dealer and greeting the customers that have an appointment. Basically it will display a single webpage (hosted on a local SUSE-Server) in Firefox.
For Porteus Kiosk 2.0 my plans were:
- make a small USB-Key with a Porteus Desktop System and TeamViewer6 installed
- ship the hardware (a small net-top-PC with VESA-mount) and the USB Key to the customer
- the customer would plug it in and start the net-top, it would boot from USB, TeamViewer would run in auto-start
- connect to the machine and use the local Kiosk 2.0 build-script to input the specific URL to the welcome-page, adjust screen resolution / refresh rate, set static IP
- build iso, "burn" to the HDD of the net-top
It all worked fine and dandy with the 2.0 release, just with one little quirk. Upon boot of the Kiosk Firefox would display "page not found" and you had to refresh the page manually.
Problem is that most of the setups simply don't have a keyboard connected, and connecting one to press F5 every morning is unacceptable. So i set my hopes on the 3.0 version where the ISO build with the Web-Wizard was running without problems.
However, since the Kiosk 3.1 release integrated the wizard into the ISO, there's a little problem. I would either need the classical "offline" kiosk-builder-script or a way to reliably integrate teamviewer6 into the Kiosk ISO (vnc-sheanigans are a problem since most car dealers have proprietary internet, proxies and all kinds of shit that block VNC connections, TeamViewer tunnels over http and works 99% of the time).
Do you still plan on releasing the standalone build script?
Thank you very much in advance.
firstly i want to thank the Proteus Team for this great and lightweight Linux distro. Porteus was my first foray into the Linux world and its going pretty nicely at the moment.
I was specifically looking for a (portable) and lightweight Kiosk Distro, and Porteus is exactly what i need here. However there are a few small quirks that you may be able to help me with.
My project at the moment is to build a reliable platform for a so called "Welcome-Screen". It is supposed to be a big TV screen with a VESA-mounted Net-top-PC running porteus, standing in the lobby of a car-dealer and greeting the customers that have an appointment. Basically it will display a single webpage (hosted on a local SUSE-Server) in Firefox.
For Porteus Kiosk 2.0 my plans were:
- make a small USB-Key with a Porteus Desktop System and TeamViewer6 installed
- ship the hardware (a small net-top-PC with VESA-mount) and the USB Key to the customer
- the customer would plug it in and start the net-top, it would boot from USB, TeamViewer would run in auto-start
- connect to the machine and use the local Kiosk 2.0 build-script to input the specific URL to the welcome-page, adjust screen resolution / refresh rate, set static IP
- build iso, "burn" to the HDD of the net-top
It all worked fine and dandy with the 2.0 release, just with one little quirk. Upon boot of the Kiosk Firefox would display "page not found" and you had to refresh the page manually.
Problem is that most of the setups simply don't have a keyboard connected, and connecting one to press F5 every morning is unacceptable. So i set my hopes on the 3.0 version where the ISO build with the Web-Wizard was running without problems.
However, since the Kiosk 3.1 release integrated the wizard into the ISO, there's a little problem. I would either need the classical "offline" kiosk-builder-script or a way to reliably integrate teamviewer6 into the Kiosk ISO (vnc-sheanigans are a problem since most car dealers have proprietary internet, proxies and all kinds of shit that block VNC connections, TeamViewer tunnels over http and works 99% of the time).
Do you still plan on releasing the standalone build script?
Thank you very much in advance.