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