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by coolblue2000
Mon Feb 24, 2014 10:39 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Reliability in production
Replies: 19
Views: 8391

Re: Reliability in production

Is the wifi dongle plugged in to a powered hub? If not then could it have drawn too much power at some point and caused the system to crash?
by coolblue2000
Wed Feb 19, 2014 12:58 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: running (web) web browserin kiosk mode
Replies: 0
Views: 251

running (web) web browserin kiosk mode

is there a way to run the (web) web browser in kiosk mode?
by coolblue2000
Wed Jan 29, 2014 10:31 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Epiphany-browser kiosk mode and proxy
Replies: 2
Views: 5489

Epiphany-browser kiosk mode and proxy

Is there a way to get the new "Web" browser (what a dumb name....) to run in kiosk mode?

Also is there a way to specify a pac file url for it to use too?

Currently we are using chromium as our kiosk browser but would love a html5 browser so we can play video.
by coolblue2000
Fri Oct 25, 2013 8:11 am
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: HDMI Issue
Replies: 1
Views: 386

HDMI Issue

I have set my pi up to force hdmi output so that it always turns on properly if the screen was turned on after the pi. However this resulted in it always outputting SD rather than HD. I now have the following options set hdmi_force_hotplug=1 hdmi_drive=2 hdmi_ignore_edid=0xa5000080 hdmi_group=1 hdmi...
by coolblue2000
Wed Oct 23, 2013 9:53 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Wayland Build
Replies: 24
Views: 7530

Re: Wayland Build

It turns out that wayland is actually present in the latest standard Rasbian build! Yey! So to run it simply issue the command sudo weston-launch (make sure you booted to console initially rather than the desktop) Now playing around with it and it does indeed seem lightning quick! I just need to do ...
by coolblue2000
Wed Oct 23, 2013 3:07 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Wayland Build
Replies: 24
Views: 7530

Re: Wayland Build

Just found a way to possibly run a wayland build following the instructions in the link

http://wayland.freedesktop.org/raspberrypi.html


I have not tested it yet though so can't comment on whether it works or not.
by coolblue2000
Wed Oct 23, 2013 2:40 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Wayland Build
Replies: 24
Views: 7530

Re: Wayland Build

@ jamesh

Thank you very much. I will take a look to see if I can find it. Looking forward to the new year release as it will fix one of the only major issues with the Raspberry Pi.
by coolblue2000
Wed Oct 23, 2013 1:00 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Wayland Build
Replies: 24
Views: 7530

Re: Wayland Build

We have had zero issues with SD cards and I have personally run a PI as a database server for some time now with zero issues. However we do have a plan in place to send out imaged SD cards if such a situation occurs. Plus an application has been written to administer all the units via ssh to manage ...
by coolblue2000
Wed Oct 23, 2013 11:00 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Wayland Build
Replies: 24
Views: 7530

Wayland Build

I read about 6 weeks ago that a wayland beta was going to be release within a couple of weeks. Does anyone know if this has happened yet? We are about to install hundreds of Pis around the country as display devices and wayland would make our lives a lot easier.
by coolblue2000
Tue Sep 24, 2013 8:14 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Eben at LinuxCon
Replies: 9
Views: 1962

Re: Eben at LinuxCon

Does Wayland require new hardware or is is simply an OS upgrade which will work on current Pis?
by coolblue2000
Wed Sep 18, 2013 11:47 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Build Midori From Source
Replies: 6
Views: 1964

Re: Build Midori From Source

Because I need a newer version than is in the repository. The one in the repository has a bug which means it shuts down after about 3 hours of running a jquery heavy site.
by coolblue2000
Mon Sep 16, 2013 9:47 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Build Midori From Source
Replies: 6
Views: 1964

Build Midori From Source

Can anyone either explain or point me to some instructions on how to build the latest Midori version from source on raspbian? I am quite technical but am pretty new to linux so will need pointers....
by coolblue2000
Wed Sep 04, 2013 2:02 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Start Surf browser in kiosk mode
Replies: 1
Views: 1479

Start Surf browser in kiosk mode

I am trying to start the Surf browser in kiosk mode. The following help file describes how to do it http://surf.suckless.org/files/kiosk_mode however using -k as a parameter does not appear to work when started from /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart @surf -k www.mysite.com If I take the -k parameter...
by coolblue2000
Mon Aug 26, 2013 9:09 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Best way to start chromium at startup in kiosk mode
Replies: 3
Views: 2115

Re: Best way to start chromium at startup in kiosk mode

@stephencassidy I have already tried that, however it did not prevent the screen from blanking. I can stop the screen blanking when running the raspbian gui but when chromium is running in kiosk mode outside of the gui nothing appears to work. I have repeatedly tried different configurations etc but...
by coolblue2000
Mon Aug 26, 2013 1:00 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Best way to start chromium at startup in kiosk mode
Replies: 3
Views: 2115

Best way to start chromium at startup in kiosk mode

I have a raspberry pi running raspbian with the view to running a shop display. However I currently start chromium with the following line in the .profile file xinit /usr/bin/chromium --kiosk --incognito www.myweb.com. The problem is that it seems when started this way, there is no way to prevent th...
by coolblue2000
Sun Aug 25, 2013 9:15 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: How to Disable screen blanking for chromium in kiosk mode
Replies: 2
Views: 2214

Re: How to Disable screen blanking for chromium in kiosk mod

changing /etc/kbd/config does not stop the screen blanking in chromium for me. I have also read many posts that also claim that this does not work for them either. The xscreensaver solution seems to be the only thing that works..... but I just need to be able to start xscreensaver before chromium st...
by coolblue2000
Fri Aug 16, 2013 3:47 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: How to Disable screen blanking for chromium in kiosk mode
Replies: 2
Views: 2214

How to Disable screen blanking for chromium in kiosk mode

I am running Raspbian, and I am using this as a display device for a TV in a retail centre. I run Chromium on startup with this line in .profile: xinit /usr/bin/chromium --kiosk --incognito www.mysite.com ...however none of the solutions to disable screen blanking seem to work (although they do work...
by coolblue2000
Wed Aug 07, 2013 7:49 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Latest version of Chromium
Replies: 15
Views: 6422

Re: Latest version of Chromium

I suppose the next question then is what is the best browser on Pi that supports HTML5 and has the same kiosk functionality as chromium?
by coolblue2000
Mon Aug 05, 2013 3:12 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Latest version of Chromium
Replies: 15
Views: 6422

Latest version of Chromium

Is it possible to get a modern version of Chromium on pi? I seem to be stuck on version 22 which is over 1 year old and does not seem to have all the html5 compatibility!
by coolblue2000
Mon Aug 05, 2013 11:43 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Why so primitive?
Replies: 113
Views: 19009

Re: Why so primitive?

I don't want to blame anybody who made a huge work creating Raspberry PI, I just want to ask one question: why Raspberry only supports the most simple and primitive operating systems? It can only support Raspberry's standard OS, Android 2.3 and adapted version of Linux. But this little device has a...
by coolblue2000
Mon Aug 05, 2013 11:37 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Web Proxy
Replies: 0
Views: 1140

Web Proxy

I have a raspberry pi setup on our company network. However it can not see the internet. I have set up the proxy for apt by setting Aquire::http::proxy "http//111.111.111.111:8080/" in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80proxy and this works fine for apt. However I have also set the following in /etc/bash.baschrc...
by coolblue2000
Wed Jun 12, 2013 12:49 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Backing up SD Card is not working
Replies: 2
Views: 525

Backing up SD Card is not working

I am using win32diskimager to backup my sd card and it just creates a 57MB file rather than 16GB of the actual card.I am following all the instructions I have found (ie I open a copy of an image (as diskimager will not create one from scratch) then select my sd card and then click read) It is obviou...
by coolblue2000
Fri May 17, 2013 10:25 am
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Setting Up Mercurial to serve over http
Replies: 0
Views: 1013

Setting Up Mercurial to serve over http

I have mercurial setup on my Windows PC serving repos via IIS. It even has a wonderful web page which allows the viewing of repositories etc. I would like to move this to my raspberry pi, and as all the windows instructions were converted and hacked from Linux ones, I was assuming it would be even e...
by coolblue2000
Mon Jan 21, 2013 12:25 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Proxy Issue
Replies: 0
Views: 546

Proxy Issue

I have Chromium autostarting at bootup. However it complains that it can't connect to the proxy server.... If I press refresh it works fine. This proxy is setup in bash and chromium works perfectly if started from the desktop icon. If I specify --proxy-auto-detect in the startup script it no longer ...
by coolblue2000
Fri Jan 18, 2013 12:31 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Auto open browser on boot
Replies: 26
Views: 209428

Re: Auto open browser on boot

Ok, I have got it working. It seems you can't start chromium from bash as it there is no gui so fails. I got chromium to start on boot by adding "@chromium --kiosk www.bbc.co.uk" to the "autostart" file in /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/ One problem though..... On my home pi this works fine (not going thro...

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