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
- CUPS (Addons -> CUPS Printing, from ./install.sh or the Web UI) now
installs from the offline bundle by itself when the kiosk can't reach
the Ubuntu archive: lib/config.sh's run_with_offline_fallback switches
apt to the bundle (kiosk-offline-apt on) around the install and back
afterwards. No-op on manual installs or when online.
- Fix cups_is_installed reporting "not installed" for an installed CUPS:
`dpkg -l | grep -q` under install.sh's pipefail fails when grep exits
early and dpkg takes SIGPIPE. Uses dpkg-query on the one package now.
- Sites: an absolute path (/home/kiosk/docs/menu.pdf) is accepted and
turned into a percent-encoded file:// URL, identically in the Sites
menu (sites_parse_url) and the Web UI (parseUrl, with tests). Electron
42 shows local HTML, PDFs (built-in viewer) and images as-is.
- iso/build-iso.sh checks its build tools (plus the --offline ones) and
offers to `sudo apt install` what's missing; --install-deps does it
without asking. --offline now refuses non-amd64 hosts up front.
Tested: offline chroot of the 26.04.1 server filesystem - action_install_cups
installed CUPS + printer-driver-all/hplip/gutenprint from the bundle with
no network and left apt back on normal sources; webui test suite passes;
Electron 42 rendered a file:// PDF and PNG with spaces/# in the path;
build-iso.sh stopped with the install command when apt-utils was missing
and no TTY, and installed it and built the ISO with --install-deps.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Cjz8a58eB5P9sUweqd3NHm
Start of pulling the menu system out of the 12k-line single-file
installer so individual menus can change without risking the rest of
the script (network, VNC, addons, etc). This is groundwork for the
planned web-based management UI, which will share the same lib/config.sh
read/write layer instead of duplicating it.
- lib/menu.sh: generic numbered-menu framework (auto-numbered entries,
"0" always exits/returns) plus the validated input helpers menus need.
- lib/config.sh: single load/save for config.json. Fixes a latent bug
where the old Sites menu wrote config.json without first loading
swipe/navigation/lockout settings, silently resetting them to
defaults on save.
- menus/sites.sh: Sites & Page Timing fully migrated - add/edit/delete/
reorder pages, set duration (auto-rotate/manual/hidden) and home page.
Also fixes an off-by-one in the ported reorder logic (moving an item
landed one slot short of the requested position) caught by testing.
- install.sh: new entry point for managing an already-installed kiosk
via `git clone` + `./install.sh`, wired to the Sites menu. Does not
yet replace first-time provisioning, which still uses the existing
single-file installer.
All new site CRUD/reorder/home-page paths were exercised against a
scratch config.json (add with/without basic auth, edit duration, set
home + timeout, 2- and 3-item reorders in both directions, delete) to
confirm the resulting config.json matches expectations.
Claude