Handful of scripts for customers to run to setup devices quickly
The raspberry PI bash script helps get the raspbian Pi into a kiosk like mode, easing the setup that would normally be required by hand. By default it will
- install the latest chromium browser from apt which I think is locked to version 60
- install some mscore fonts
- install google color emoji font for nicer emoji display
- whether the user wants to do a full
apt upgrade - whether to turn on overscaning
- setup a login script to be called upon the GUI starting
- which starts google chrome at Geckoboard fullscreen
You can run the script with the following one liner
bash <(curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/geckoboard/device-scripts/master/raspberrypi)Read and follow the instructions
The bash script only works with LXDE-Pi desktop environment. This is because we hook in the LXDE startup hooks for when the GUI is started, to allow us to start Chromium browser automatically and remove the mouse cursor.
It will also validate before executing that the OS release is Raspbian and the hardware architecture is armv
When the script is completed it will restart the pi to complete the setup but not before the user has
If a user wants to put their Pi back to normal without formatting it they can do so using the uninstall script this will remove the LXDE bash script hook for starting chrome and remove some fonts and that.
bash <(curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/geckoboard/device-scripts/master/uninstall_scripts/raspberrypi_uninstall)The Windows script is written in VBScript just like bash its baked into the core of the Windows operating system and thus is supported on several versions. This again does some steps to help setup Geckoboard in kiosk like mode automatically
- helps direct setup of auto login
- ensures chrome browser is installed
- installs a custom script to prevent the computer sleeping
- installs a script which will start chrome at Geckoboard fullscreen
Download via a browser by navigating to
https://github.com/geckoboard/device-scripts/releases/download/latest/windows_kiosk.vbs
Once it is downloaded - double click the vbscript it should prompt to allow admin accept this, it will display blackbox.
Read and follow the instructions
If the user wants to not start Chrome automatically they can run the uninstall script which will delete the login hook scripts
https://github.com/geckoboard/device-scripts/releases/download/latest/windows_kiosk_uninstall.vbs
Once it is downloaded - double click the vbscript it should prompt to allow admin accept this, it will display blackbox.
Read and follow the instructions