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Point of Occupancy Tracking (POOT) Kiosk

The POOT kiosks run on a Raspberry Pi 3 with the Raspberry Pi Touch Display. The user interface is presented in Chromium running in kiosk mode. The screen resolution of the display is 800 x 480 pixels.

Set Up Instructions

  1. Install the Desktop version of the Raspberry OS.
  2. Rotate the screen display if necessary by the config.txt file and adding the line lcd_rotate=2 to the top of the file.
  3. Install require packages: unclutter, and sed: sudo apt-get install unclutter sed
  4. Set up Raspbian to auto login using: sudo raspi-config Within config navigate: 3 Boot Options -> B1 Desktop / CLI -> B4 Desktop Autologin
  5. Copy the kiosk.sh shell script to the home directory: /home/pi/
  6. Copy the kiosk.service to the /lib/systemd/system/ directory
  7. Start the service on restart: sudo systemctl enable kiosk.service

Useful Service Commands

  • Load service into systemd:
    sudo systemctl daemon-reload
  • Enable the service to start on restart:
    sudo systemctl enable kiosk.service
  • Start the service immediately:
    sudo systemctl start kiosk.service
  • Stop the service temporarily:
    sudo systemctl stop kiosk.service
  • Disable the service, until it's enabled again:
    sudo systemctl disable kiosk.service