"Client Mode" installation + PIR

sdetweil

@Kostosso before there was a decent pi browser, client mode was useful. not so.much now.

you can run browser in kiosk mode and never know.
see the run-start.sh here
https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts
for the syntax to launch Chromebox midori in kiosk mode. down near the end.
I use this on pi0w where electron is broken

pirbo the pi, w remote, sure
when someone approaches the pi, the remote will wake up. don’t know how to do the pir at the remote browser wakeup.

Kostosso

@sdetweil

Thanks for the answer.

If I understand correctly, then it is enough for me to install a minimal system with a graphical interface and Cromium on RPI.

After that, do the following line in autorun

open -a "Google Chrome" http://localhost:$port --args -noerrdialogs -kiosk -start_maximized  --disable-infobars --ignore-certificate-errors-spki-list --ignore-ssl-errors --ignore-certificate-errors 2>/dev/null

Right?

And to wake up the monitor, use any Python script

sdetweil

@Kostosso open is a macOS command

the one above is for chrome or chromium-browser

different names depending on system

yes, and pir connected to pi, which is the UI only system. then python to wake/sleep

localhost means mm server is on the same system?

Kostosso

@sdetweil
Okay, then the command on the RPi should look like this?

"chromium-browser" -noerrdialogs -kiosk -start_maximized --new-window --site-per-process --no-zygote --no-sandbox --disable-infobars --app=http://192.168.10.232:8080  --ignore-certificate-errors-spki-list --ignore-ssl-errors --ignore-certificate-errors --user-data-dir=$r 2>/dev/null

Right?
(No, docker with the server is on a different host.)

I’ve read here that there can be problems with Cromium and that automatically restarting pm2 helps solve them. Or is this already “outdated information”?

Thanks a lot

sdetweil

@Kostosso not outdated…

pm2 (node process manager) job is to start (at boot too) AND keep running any number of processes

you can define the process in a json file (so you can have a pretty name vs the name of the script/executable)
see the pm2_MagicMirror.json on my scripts site for the model I use in the install script
or pm2 start xxx.sh (bash scripts MUST have .sh extension) if u start them directly)

you can start your browser and also the python script with pm2…