obscreen/README.md

Obscreen

🧑‍🎄 Open to feature request and pull request

About

Use a RaspberryPi to show a full-screen slideshow (Kiosk-mode)

Features:

• Dead simple chromium webview
• Clear GUI
• Fleet view to manage many devices easily
• Very few dependencies
• JSON database files
• Plugin system
• No stupid pricing plan
• No cloud
• No telemetry

🐳 Run with docker

With docker (for test)

# Prepare application data file tree
mkdir -p obscreen/data/db obscreen/data/uploads && cd obscreen

# Run the Docker container
# If you ARE NOT on a RaspberryPi ignore the line (-v /home/pi/....)
# Else make sure that `AUTOCONFIGURE_LX_FILE` exists and is writeable !
docker run --rm --name obscreen --pull=always \
  -e DEBUG=false \
  -e PORT=5000 \
  -e AUTOCONFIGURE_LX_FILE=/app/var/run/lxfile \
  -e SECRET_KEY=ANY_SECRET_KEY_HERE \
  -p 5000:5000 \
  -v ./data/db:/app/data/db \
  -v ./data/uploads:/app/data/uploads \
  -v /home/pi/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart:/app/var/run/lxfile \
  jierka/obscreen:latest

With docker-compose

# Prepare application data file tree
mkdir -p obscreen/data/db obscreen/data/uploads && cd obscreen

# Download docker-compose.yml
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jr-k/obscreen/master/docker-compose.yml > docker-compose.yml

# If you ARE NOT on a RaspberryPi execute the line below
uname | grep -q 'Darwin' && sed -i '' '/\/home\/pi/s/^/#/' docker-compose.yml || sed -i '/\/home\/pi/s/^/#/' docker-compose.yml

# Run
docker compose up

📠 Run system wide

Install

# Install system dependencies
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y git chromium-browser unclutter

# Get files
git clone https://github.com/jr-k/obscreen.git && cd obscreen

# Install application dependencies
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

# Add some sample data
cp data/db/slideshow.json.dist data/db/slideshow.json

# Customize server default values
cp .env.dist .env

Configure

• Server configuration is editable in .env file.
• Application configuration is available in http://localhost:5000/settings page.

Start server (for test)

./obscreen.py

Start server forever with systemctl

sudo ln -s "$(pwd)/system/obscreen.service" /etc/systemd/system/obscreen.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable obscreen.service
sudo systemctl start obscreen.service

To troubleshoot you can check logs

sudo journalctl -u obscreen -f 

👌 Usage

• Page which plays slideshow is reachable at http://localhost:5000
• Slideshow manager is reachable at http://localhost:5000/manage

✨ You are done now :)

• If everything is set up correctly, the RaspberryPi shall start chromium in fullscreen directly after boot screen and after some seconds of showing the date & time (views/player/default.jinja.html) your slideshow shall start and loop endlessly.
• Make sure that AUTOCONFIGURE_LX_FILE exists and is writeable !

📎 Additional

Hardware checks

• Basic Setup For basic RaspberryPi setup you can use most of the available guides, for example this one: https://gist.github.com/blackjid/dfde6bedef148253f987

• HDMI Mode You may need to set the HDMI Mode on the raspi to ensure the hdmi resolution matches your screen exactly. Here is the official documentation: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/config-txt/video.md

However, I used this one: (2,82) = 1920x1080 60Hz 1080p