a boilerplate for developing kiosks, digital signage or other human-machine interaction projects based on ElectronJS and resin.io

This is the very basic layer on which snappin.io builds its touch-enabled apps.

this application is meant to be deployed to RaspberryPi2 devices via resin.io.

At least 64MB of GPU-dedicated RAM is required. You can achieve that locally following these instructions (only the first parameter gpu_mem=64 is required) or, as we strongly suggest, set it remotely with Resin's Advanced Boot Configuration feature.

Achieving kinda-smooth desktop application display on a raspberrypi is hard. This project aims to provide a quickstart template.

We did a lot of researches and tests with several window managers. Fluxbox ended up being the most balanced between minimum footprint and features

simply set these environment varables in your app via the resin dashboard to configure the behaviour of your devices

• URL_LAUNCHER_URL string - the URL to be loaded. use file:///app/app/index.html to load a local electronJS (or any website) app - defaults to http://resin.io
• URL_LAUNCHER_NODE bool (converted from string) - whether or not enable nodejs - defaults to false
• URL_LAUNCHER_KIOSK bool (converted from string) - whether or not enter KIOSK mode - defaults to true
• URL_LAUNCHER_TITLE string - the title of the window. Seen only with URL_LAUNCHER_FRAME=true - defaults to RESIN.IO
• URL_LAUNCHER_FRAME bool (converted from string) - set to "true" to display the window frame. Seen only with URL_LAUNCHER_KIOSK=false - defaults to false
• URL_LAUNCHER_CONSOLE bool (converted from string) - set to "true" to display the debug console - defaults to false
• URL_LAUNCHER_WIDTH int (converted from string) - - defaults to 1920
• URL_LAUNCHER_HEIGHT int (converted from string) - - defaults to 1080
• URL_LAUNCHER_TOUCH bool (converted from string) - enables touch events if your device supports them - defaults to false
• URL_LAUNCHER_TOUCH_SIMULATE bool (converted from string) - simulates touch events - might be useful for touchscreen with partial driver support - be aware this could be a performance hog - defaults to false