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jeffpiazza
Add ability for custom screens on kiosks
There's often other announcements and such that happen during the pinewood derby. It would be nice to be able to create custom kiosk screens to support this. For example today we wanted to show information for future events, QR codes for event signups, etc...
You can do this it just requires creating the page in a specific location. You do need to make sure a little bit of java code is added to the page, so it checks in with the server to make sure the kiosk is displaying the correct information.
So for location and what needs to be on the page, I can get that to you in a little bit.
/var/www/html/derbynet/kiosks
These are the three lines that should exist in the custom kiosk page:
example:
Remove the .txt extension
Thanks. That will get it done for technical users like me. Though when I wrote up the request, I had more of a no-code gui based implementation in mind. Like the ability to create new pages from the GUI, and populate it with simple text or fullscreen image.
There's nascent support for looking for .kiosk files in a user-managed directory (.../local/kiosks/), but it needs to be more fully developed to allow user-provided static slides or images. Probably some docs on how kiosk pages work (mainly the polling to see if something else should display) and how to implement your own, for those inclined to do so.
I don't foresee providing a native editor for building your own page through the web interface. Maybe there's a case to be made that a generic announcement page with customizable strings would serve a purpose, but at the moment I'm not inclined to go that way.
I agree that it's not worth a lot of dev time to make an editor or anything like that. Perhaps just a big text field that the user can enter their own stuff, allowing HTML. Insert that whole block as-is into the page's HTML. If it's marked up with tags, great, if it's not, then it just shows as plain text with whatever default CSS applies. Maybe an upload button to upload image files to the server that the user can then reference via their own HTML.