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Show Websites at autostart in full screen. Works with an Raspberry Pi 3b.

• Why this software
  • ✅ Compatible with an Rpi 3b and 4
  • ✅ Auto Shutdown on Linux Systems via Website data
  • ✅ Autostart up script
  • ✅ Automatic login
  • ✅ Inexpensive

Written in Python and use Selenium

Setup with an Raspberry 3b

Installation about 1 hour 🕐 it depends on your internet connection

• Needed things
  • Rpi3 or Rpi3b+
    • 📝 Minimum ram memory 1 gig
    • 📝 Raspberry Pi os with Desktop
    • 📝 Sd Card about 16 gig
  • Internet connection
  • An compatible screen compatible for you purpose
  • Keyboard and mouse
  • Website with your advertisements

Installation

Auto Setup

Only use this if you have no other programs

• Install the Pi Os
• Install python via sudo apt-get install python3.7 -y
• Download the Files and run the script in the same directory python3 autoinstall.py
• Type top to find 🔎 your memory Mib mem
• Change the the Swap file if you have only 2 or 1 gig type sudo nano etc/dphys-swapfile and change the CONF_SWAPSIZE varibel to the value currentMemory*2 example 1024mib memory then your swap should be 2048 WARNING only use integers !!
• Now you are ready change the config.txt it is now in the folder /home/pi/ad-screen/config.txt
• Don't forget to change the gpu memory in the settings it should be 256 or higher
• Edit the /boot/config.txt and type hdmi_force_hotplug=1 this will force the pi to start without an monitor
• Then reboot and it is done
• If it doesn't work then type pip3 install selenium

Full Setup

• Install the Rpi os
• Open terminal and type sudo apt-get install nano -y that installs nano if it isn't installed yet
• Type top to find 🔎 your memory Mib mem
• Change the the Swap file if you have only 2 or 1 gig type sudo nano etc/dphys-swapfile and change the CONF_SWAPSIZE varibel to the value currentMemory*2 example 1024mib memory then your swap should be 2048 WARNING only use intergers !!
• Then open the config panel from the pi and set the Video Memory or gpu memory to 256 or higher
• Open Chromium and clone all Files
• Type in the terminal sudo apt-get install python3.7 -y
• Copy the downloaded files to a folder
• Type in the terminal sudo apt-get install python3-pip -y
• Open a terminal in your Folder with the Files
• The Type pip3 install -r requirements.txt if it dint work use pip instead of pip3
• Now you are ready change the config.txt
• Install the Chromium driver sudo apt-get chromium-chromedwriver -y
• Then reboot the Pi
• Open your and terminal in your folder and type python3 start.py
• Now you can make a autostart up script just read the Linux Script/howto.txt
• Edit the /boot/config.txt and type hdmi_force_hotplug=1 this will force the pi to start without an monitor
• You did it have fun

Setup the Config.txt

Sysntax:

• shutdownurl=url
  • shutdownrl thi is the key
  • = this splits the key from the value
  • url this is the value pleas dont use a [SPACE] or =

All Keys

• loginurl this is the url for login
• showurl this is the url with the advertisements
• shutdownurl this is the url for the shutdown time use only a .txt file with this format HH:MM
• password the password to login
• username the username to login
• box-username the name html tag of the username field
• box-password the name html tag of the password field
• submite-button the name of the submit button
• Login if set to True then the System Login in if it is False then it don't Login in
• Titel-Login the Login title of the site it must be static
• Titel set this to the advertisement site title only set this if your site is static
• refreshtime this is the time to refresh the page set this like a float like 1.5 the format is hour
• refresh if the system should use the refresh
• shutdown if it set shutdown
• cookie-banner if you have a cookie banner set this to your name Tag
• boot-delay this delay is when your connection is bad then the program will wait (only integers)

Issues? Or help?

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