Using Porteus Kiosk for monitoring video from Hikvision NVR - have a problem

Post#1 by **Makov** » 14 Aug 2019, 05:30

Hi!
I've decided to use Porteus Kiosk on ALL-IN-ONE PC ASUS EE TOP PC (touchscreen) for monitoring video from cameras. Main idea:
1. Connect computer to router via cable.
2. Mount Porteus on PC HDD with next settings: white list with one NVR's ip adress only.

I mount system but have several troubles:
1.I don't see video. How I can add special browser plugin in Firefox during mounting Porteus or it's impossible?
2. How I can enable virtual keyboard? Every time after restarting PC I need to input login and password. So, I whant see keyboard when I click on login and pass field.
3. Can Porteus save login and passwords?

Thanks.

Post#2 by **fanthom** » 15 Aug 2019, 18:07

Hello Makov,

1) You'll need a customized build with VLC added to be able to view video streams:
https://porteus-kiosk.org/builds.html

2) You could follow forum threads to remaster the ISO and add virtual keyboard addons/extension:
[Solved] Adding extensions to Chrome
Browser Extension with Firefox Porteus 4.6

3) See here:
https://porteus-kiosk.org/faq.html#18

Thank you.

Post#3 by **Blaze** » 15 Aug 2019, 18:51

fanthom,
about 1) double post Как настроить Porteus для просмотра видео с камер
hikvision provides only a NPAPI plugin and seems Makov need to install Mozilla Firefox ESR version for able to monitoring video from cameras.

But one thing WebComponents comes only for Windows > http://ftp.hikvision.ru/09.%20%D0%A3%D1 ... omponents/
But seems VLC solved this issue.

BTW, how about to use Pale Moon browser?

Full support for NPAPI plug-ins
https://www.palemoon.org/roadmap.shtml

Post#4 by **fanthom** » 16 Aug 2019, 06:45

Blaze,

We still have Firefox 52 ESR in kiosk.

However - i only got VLC to work with my CCTV camera.

Thanks

Post#5 by **danharner** » 22 Nov 2019, 18:16

Was this problem ever solved? Pale Moon does not work as it is missing the plug in.

Post#6 by **fanthom** » 22 Nov 2019, 19:24

@danharner
We ended up using dedicated app instead of the browser in 32bit custom build:
http://hikvision.msk.ru/download/softwa ... _Linux.zip

Thanks