Green Zone Kiosk

Summary

This kiosk is located on the first floor of Dennis near the green zone. It's currently intended to display anything related to energy that HIP/Green Science creates.

Products

Acer T272HL bmidz

Implementation

• mounted upside down
• wires enclosed
  • very little slack available
• original stand removed picture
• plate at bottom of monitor removed picture

Improvements

• An extension should be used to force page reloads. An example of that would be Reload Every.
• Firefox should be started from /etc/init.d rather rather than a script.
• Basically, all use of sleep and xdotool should be replaced by other means.

PC

• tucked away in the ceiling directly above the monitor
• PC runs a script upon startup to invert touch/video and start Firefox
  • script is located on the desktop of the Kiosk user
• Firefox uses the R-kiosk extension
  • run firefox in safe mode to get out of R-kiosk

Specifications

• purchased in the Fall of 2013
• 27-inch Touch Screen
• 1920x1080 resolution
• 100x100 Vesa compatible
• DVI / HDMI / VGA ports
• built-in speakers
• USB-in cable carries touch data
• USB-out hub with three ports on monitor's left side
• 65 watt power consumption
• VA/TFT panel with 5ms GTG and a 60hz refresh rate

Links

• Acer
• Newegg
• Amazon

Start Script

• located in the Desktop directory
• refreshes the screen every 5 minutes

Broken?

1. plug in a keyboard
2. alt+f4
3. restart the PC or execute the start script from the terminal