Tested with Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Filesctructure in /srcโ
- Raspberry Pi & 3.5" TFT & Chromium as Kiosk
- To Do
- Setup Kiosk
- 1. Prepare Raspberry Pi
- 2. Use privided Repository
- 3. Configure Boot overlays
- 4. Configure command line
- 5. Reboot the Raspberry Pi
- 6. Enable Interfaces
- 7. Install GUI components and Chromium
- 8. Edit Openbox config
- 9. Edit Openbox env
- 10. Configure X server to start on boot
- 11. Configure Xorg
- 12. Configure Cronjob for scheduled reboot
- Setup lighttpd web server
- X. References
- Test
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-fbturbo.conf
for unnecessary lines - As Container (Docker) (undocumented)
- Local web-server
- Lighttpd
- + PHP
- Install as?
- Bare metal (kiosk will use localhost)
- FTP-Server
- Using sftp (ssh)
- Lighttpd
- Cron Reboot every day
- (Optional) Add good powersaving options (screen only)
-
Install Raspbian Lite
- Make sure SSH is enabled
- Create an empty file named ssh in the
boot
partition
- Create an empty file named ssh in the
- Make sure SSH is enabled
-
Connect via SSH with the username pi - the standard password is "raspberry"
-
Update
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
- Install Git
sudo apt-get install -y git
- Git Clone GoodTFT/LCD-show
git clone https://github.com/goodtft/LCD-show.git
cd LCD-show
- Copy boot overlays
sudo cp ./usr/tft35a-overlay.dtb /boot/overlays/tft35a.dtbo
Use sudo raspi-config
and navigate to 5 Interfacing Options
and enable:
- P4 SPI
- P5 IยฒC (may not be needed)
- P6 Serial (may not be needed)
- Open
/boot/config.txt
with a text editor (e.g. vi or nano) and add the following at the end:
#Adjust Rotation if needed
dtoverlay=tft35a:rotate=270
- Adjust Overscan:
# uncomment this if your display has a black border of unused pixels visible
# and your display can output without overscan
disable_overscan=0
# uncomment the following to adjust overscan. Use positive numbers if console
# goes off screen, and negative if there is too much border
#overscan_left=16
#overscan_right=16
#overscan_top=16
#overscan_bottom=16
- Also add the following if needed:
# Interface options
dtparam=spi=on
dtparam=i2c_arm=on
enable_uart=1
- Open
/boot/cmdline.txt
with a text editor (e.g. vi or nano) and add the following at the end of the line:
fbcon=map:10 fbcon=font:ProFont6x11
sudo reboot
-
Use
sudo raspi-config
and navigate to3 Boot Options
-
Go to
B1 Desktop / CLI
- Select
B2 Console Autologin
- Select
-
-
When asked to reboot, select Yes.
This may take some time!
sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends xserver-xorg x11-xserver-utils xinit openbox
sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends chromium-browser
From Raspberry Pi Touchscreen Kiosk Setup | desertbot.io:
The Openbox window manager will be used to launch the Chromium browser.
When Openbox launches at startup it will run two scripts in the
/etc/xdg/openbox
folder. The first, environment will setup any environment variables, etc. The second, autostart will setup and launch whatever app you specify.
- Open
/etc/xdg/openbox/autostart
with a text editor (e.g. vi or nano) and add the following at the end of the file:
xset -dpms # turn off display power management system
xset s noblank # turn off screen blanking
xset s off # turn off screen saver
- Open
/etc/xdg/openbox/autostart
with a text editor (e.g. vi or nano) and add the following at the end of the file:
# Remove exit errors from the config files that could trigger a warning
sed -i 's/"exited_cleanly":false/"exited_cleanly":true/' ~/.config/chromium/'Local State'
sed -i 's/"exited_cleanly":false/"exited_cleanly":true/; s/"exit_type":"[^"]\+"/"exit_type":"Normal"/' ~/.config/chromium/Default/Preferences
- Using the env-var
$KIOSK_URL
- Will be created in the next step
chromium-browser --noerrdialogs --disable-infobars --incognito --touch-events --kiosk $KIOSK_URL
#chromium-browser --noerrdialogs --disable-infobars --incognito --touch-events --disable-translate --disable-features=TranslateUI --kiosk $KIOSK_URL
- Open
/etc/xdg/openbox/environment
with a text editor (e.g. vi or nano) and add the following at the end of the file:
export KIOSK_URL=https://google.com
- (Optional) Create a symbolic link to the env-var file in the home directory for easy editing
ln -s /etc/xdg/openbox/environment ~/env-var
- Create
.bash_profile
in the/home/pi
directory if it's not existing
touch ~/.bash_profile
- Open
~/.bash_profile
with a text editor (e.g. vi or nano) and add the following at the end of the file:
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi
[[ -z $DISPLAY && $XDG_VTNR -eq 1 ]] && startx -- -nocursor
- Validate the file
source ~/.bash_profile
- Reboot if no errors occured
sudo reboot
- Create
99-fbturbo.conf
in the/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d
directory if it's not existing
touch /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-fbturbo.conf
- Open
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-fbturbo.conf
with a text editor (e.g. vi or nano) and add the following at the end of the file:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "calibration"
MatchProduct "ADS7846 Touchscreen"
# Hat trick to get the pen to work properly on the touch screen, rotate 90 degrees clockwise:
Option "TransformationMatrix" "0 -1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1"
# Touch screen rotation by 90deg
#Option "TransformationMatrix" "0 1 0 -1 0 1 0 0 1"
# Don't use libinput but evdev for the touch screen and the pen so calibration works:
Driver "evdev"
Option "Calibration" "3936 227 268 3880"
Option "InvertY" "true"
#Option "InvertX" "true"
# Right mouse button is long press with pen:
Option "EmulateThirdButton" "1"
Option "EmulateThirdButtonTimeout" "750"
Option "EmulateThirdButtonMoveThreshold" "30"
EndSection
Section "Device"
# WaveShare SpotPear 3.5", framebuffer 1
Identifier "uga"
driver "fbdev"
# Switch to /dev/fb0 for default output (usually hdmi)
Option "fbdev" "/dev/fb1"
Option "ShadowFB" "off"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
# Primary monitor. WaveShare SpotPear 480x320
Identifier "WSSP"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "primary"
Device "uga"
Monitor "WSSP"
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "default"
Screen 0 "primary"
EndSection
- Install the evdev driver
sudo apt-get install -y xserver-xorg-input-evdev
- Reboot the Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry basic configuration ends after the reboot. In the next steps a local webserver will be installed, so it doesn't rely on an internet connection.
-
Open the root crontab with
sudo crontab -e
-
Add the following entry in a new line of the file
# m h dom mon dow user command
30 3 * * * sudo /sbin/shutdown -r now
- Exit the editor to automatically install the new crontab-file
Alternative variant:
- Create a cron file
scheduledreboots
in/etc/cron.d/
touch /etc/cron.d/scheduledreboots
- Open
/etc/cron.d/scheduledreboots
with a text editor (e.g. vi or nano) and add >the following:# m h dom mon dow user command 30 3 * * * sudo /sbin/shutdown -r now
- The Raspberry will now restart every night at 3:30am
- Reboot the Raspberry Pi to make sure Cron picked up the new job file.
sudo reboot
- The Raspberry Pi basic configuration ends after the reboot. In the next steps a local webserver will be installed, so it doesn't rely on an internet connection.
- Update
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
- Make sure to remove apache
sudo apt-get remove apache2
- Install lighttpd
sudo apt-get install lighttpd
- Create
index.html
in the/var/www/html/
directory if it's not existing
touch /var/www/html/index.html
- Open
/var/www/html/index.html
with a text editor (e.g. vi or nano) and add the following code for testing purposes:
<h1>This is a TEST!</h1>
-
Get your hostname or ip adress
- IP Adress: Look for
eth0
orwlan0
ip a
- Hostname
hostname -I
- IP Adress: Look for
-
Access that host/ip via a web browser from a device in the same network and hope it's showing the
This is a TEST!
-Heading ๐
- Adjust rights for
/var/www/html/
so pi-user can edit files via sftp
sudo groupadd www-data
sudo usermod -G www-data -a pi
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html
sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/html
- Reload lighttpd (may not be required)
sudo service lighttpd force-reload
- Install:
sudo apt-get install -y php7.3-fpm php7.3-mbstring php7.3-mysql php7.3-curl php7.3-gd php7.3-curl php7.3-zip php7.3-xml php7.3-soap
- Enable mods in lighttpd
sudo lighttpd-enable-mod fastcgi
sudo lighttpd-enable-mod fastcgi-php
-
Edit the lighttpd fastcgi config
- Open
/etc/lighttpd/conf-available/15-fastcgi-php.conf
with a text editor (e.g. vi or nano) and replace the contents with:
# -*- depends: fastcgi -*- # /usr/share/doc/lighttpd/fastcgi.txt.gz # http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/Docs:ConfigurationOptions#mod_fastcgi-fastcgi ## Start an FastCGI server for php (needs the php5-cgi package) fastcgi.server += ( ".php" => (( "socket" => "/var/run/php/php7.3-fpm.sock", "broken-scriptfilename" => "enable" )) )
- Open
-
Reload the lighttpd service
sudo service lighttpd force-reload
- Rename the
.html
file toindex.php
sudo mv /var/www/html/index.html /var/www/html/index.php
- Open
/var/www/html/index.php
with a text editor (e.g. vi or nano) and place the following in a new line:
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
- The file should now look like this:
<h1>This is a TEST!</h1>
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
- Access that host/ip via a web browser from a device in the same network and hope it's showing the the php-info ๐
- Open
/etc/xdg/openbox/environment
with a text editor (e.g. vi or nano). If the symlink is present it can be used:
sudo nano ~/env-var
- Change the value of the last uncommented line, the env var for openbox, to see the local webserver on the raspberry pi's touchscreen. It should look like this:
# Probably some comments
# More comments
export KIOSK_URL=localhost
- Setting up an LCD screen on the Raspberry Pi, 2019 edition
- Raspberry Pi Touchscreen Kiosk Setup | desertbot.io
- GoodTFT 3.5" screen from Aliexpress - Raspberry Pi Forums
- How to setup Raspberry Pi Lighttpd - Pi My Life Up
(Used in that order)