This project creates a public display or "kiosk"" for a Motus receiver station for the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Ankeny Hill Nature Center. The goal is to engage public visitors to the site with a simple near-realtime display of migratory bird tag detection events. It presents a very simple limited number of screens that are easy to navigate via a touchscreen display.
The Motus Wildlife Tracking System (Motus) is an international collaborative research network that uses coordinated automated radio telemetry to facilitate research and education on the ecology and conservation of migratory animals. Motus is a program of Birds Canada in partnership with collaborating researchers and organizations. Learn more at https://motus.org
Figure 1 - Kiosk homepage
*Figure 2 - The Kiosk Receiver Detections tab panel
*Figure 3 - The Kiosk Receiver Detections map panel
Any use or publication of the data presented through this application must conform to the terms of the Motus Collaboration Policy at https://motus.org/policy/ and ensure proper recognition of Motus, Birds Canada, Motus researchers and projects. You should have received a copy of the Motus Collaboration Policy document in this projects home directory when you downloaded the source code. Look for the file or find it at https://motus.org/policy/
- Richard Schramm, original author
- Patrick Lorch, Sr. Research Biologist, Southern Sierra Research Station plorch@southernsierraresearch.org
- Richard Schramm - schramm.r@gmail.com
Copyright 2022 Richard Schramm - Corvallis, Oregon USA
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I have quite successfully built and run the application in full kiosk mode on low-end Intel NUC PC computers with Window 10 Pro pre-installed. These are easily purchased used on eBay for as little as $100. I have also built and run the application on Apple Mac OSX (but not as a locked down kiosk).
These are the machines I have used:
- NUC6CAY Celeron J3455 Processor 1.5Ghz 8GB Ram 120GB SSD w/wifi and Windows10 Pro (eBay $100)
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NUC7i5BNH MiniPC QUadCore i5-78260U 8Gb w/128Gb SSD w/wifi and Windows 10 Pro. (eBay $185)
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CHUWI Larkbox PRO miniPC 6GbRam QuadCore 2.7Ghz Celeron J4125 with wifi and Windows 10 (Home Ed) $139 Amazon -- not recommended due to possible reliablity concerns, but its cute!
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Apple Macbook Pro (circa 2018) 2.9 Ghz Intel core i9 32Gb w/macOS 12.6 (my development system)
The touchscreen I use is : Dell 24 Touchscreen Model P2418HT (Dell.com $350)
USB Keyboard and Mouse
I strongly recommend Windows-10 PRO edition. Home Edition works too but with some additional headaches getting set up.
Easily 70% of the kiosk installation is getting Windows configured to work smoothly in kiosk mode. The 30% effort (or less) is getting the app built. If you want to skip all of the Windows and kiosk-specific setup and just go explore the app in R and RStudio, see BUILDING_THE_APP_README.md
For the full kiosk behavior we need, start at WINDOWS_FIRSTRUN_README.md in the project's top level directory.