Slideshow: a site whose path is a local folder (/home/kiosk/photos/, or
any existing directory) plays its images full-screen instead of showing
Chromium's directory listing. kiosk-app/slideshow.js maps the folder URL
to slideshow.html (resolveSiteUrl - used where main.js loads a view and
where attachView re-checks the configured URL) and pushes the image list
into the page from the main process (the page has no fs access), re-read
every minute so added/removed images show up without a restart. Natural
file-name order, crossfade, letterboxed by default; optional
slideshow.json in the folder: interval, shuffle, fit, transition,
recursive. provision_install_app already copies kiosk-app/*.js/*.html,
so new installs and Advanced -> Upgrade pick it up.
Electron: ^42.0.0 -> ^44.0.0. Electron supports the latest three majors
(44/43/42), so 42 drops out when 45 ships. Checked the 43/44 breaking
changes against kiosk-app: nothing it uses changed (no clipboard,
safeStorage, net.request, utilityProcess; BrowserView is deprecated but
still present through 46). The offline bundle builder now retries
Electron's install.js download, which crashes outright if a large
download is cut off mid-stream.
Tested with the real main.js on Electron 44.5.1 under Xvfb + Openbox:
slideshow fills the screen, cycles in order (01, 02, 10) skipping a .txt
file, honours slideshow.json, and an image added mid-run joined the
rotation after the refresh. Offline bundle rebuilt with Electron 44.5.1.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Cjz8a58eB5P9sUweqd3NHm
Until now ./install.sh only managed an already-installed kiosk;
ubuntu-based-kiosk.sh was still the only path from a bare Ubuntu Server
box to a running one. install.sh now provisions from scratch too:
packages, kiosk user, Node.js/Electron, LightDM+Openbox autologin,
audio/video/HDMI/power-button hardware setup, and the firewall, then
hands off to the already-migrated Core Settings/Advanced menus for
initial configuration instead of reimplementing that logic again.
- lib/provision.sh: the new provisioning flow, built mostly by calling
existing menus (core_settings_menu, emergency hotspot, virtual
consoles) - cuts it to ~300 lines against the legacy script's
~4,000-line first_time_install().
- lib/electron.sh: electron_install_binary() extracted out of
menus/advanced_electron.sh so provisioning and the existing "Fix
blank screen" action share one implementation.
- kiosk-app/ and provision/files/: the Electron app source and every
system template file, extracted byte-for-byte out of
ubuntu-based-kiosk.sh's heredocs into real files.
- Found and fixed a bash set -e gotcha along the way: testing a
multi-statement function as an if-condition (`if ! some_func; then`)
silently exempts everything inside that function from set -e for the
duration of the call. Fixed in the new provisioning code and in
menus/advanced_electron.sh's pre-existing repair action, which had
the same shape.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VfsFSoRqfbRG7XAg5RoE7e
Claude