
Context
I developed a website for booking training rooms.
To make life easier for learners, I built a page designed to be displayed on a TV, showing the upcoming or ongoing training sessions along with the room name.
Drawback
The building’s TV isn’t Wi-Fi compatible, so I used a Raspberry Pi.
To keep things simple, I wanted it to display the site’s page in full screen as soon as it boots.
Raspberry Pi 3
Install Chromium if it isn’t already installed:
sudo apt install chromium-browser
To launch the browser on the right page at startup:
sudo nano /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart
Add the following line at the end of this file:
@chromium-browser --kiosk https://mon_site.com
–kiosk: displays the page in full screen.
If you’re not familiar with “nano”, to save the file press CTRL + O.
Then press ENTER and finally you can exit by pressing CTRL + X.
You can reboot.