Looking for tips, NR control kiosk - open webpage

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Hi!
Looking for advise how to start.
Trying to find examples on command line control of a kiosk browser did not solve my challenge.

What i want to achieve is the following.
I receive a changing url with mqtt.
This url needs to be openend full screen
When is receive a new url that one needs to be openend full screen again

Any one an idea how to start this?
Also thought about an iframe in a html page but i think i can be done more nice, can i?

Thanks for help

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Have a look at this -
Wallpanel

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@smcgann99 thanks! but does that work on a raspberry with mqtt?
Maybe i was not clear with that.
But anyway a solution, going to check it out! thanks!

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Search the forum for kiosk. Over 50 threads on this subject. Might be some clues.

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Thanks. Enough to find about kiosks. And i have that running no problem.
The problem is a variable url of the kiosk.
Idea is to run a kiosk on a pi with NR. When the new url is received from mqtt i need to change the url that the kiosk is showing. And that part i cannot find in those google results

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Do you know how to setup an MQTT in node to receive a message?

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Try Fully kiosk browser, you can change the default url with the help of the rest api and it's full screen.

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Yeah no problem. Only problem is how to connect to a browser

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So all you need to do is feed the message from your MQTT node to your NR flow that does the Kiosk

I feel there we are not understanding something about your requirements or you haven't actually got a kiosk working with NR

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Sorry if i am not clear.
I have kiosk mode running, it opens full screen node red.
i use the LXDE-pi/autostart with the line below

@/usr/bin/chromium-browser --incognito --start-maximized --kiosk http://127.0.0.1:1880/ui

But i want to change from node red to another page like https://www.google.com for example
This url comes from mqtt
Is that possible to do from command line?

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Try running your kiosk from Node-RED using the exec node instead of the autostart location

As Steve says - a forum search should help you find some useful information :slight_smile:

Once you've got that running then, it is very easy to change to another webpage

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Thanks!
So it should be possible to control kiosk from command line, clear
Then i go on searching :wink:

Found this page before

but that works from cli on the pi itself, but from the exec node i get errors and cannot open pages

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You may be able to get close with node-red-node-ui-iframe (node) - Node-RED. Not all web sites allow themselves to be included in i frames so it won’t work or all sites. Problem is if you link fully to another site then your flow would no longer have control unless the user swaps back

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Thanks!
I also tried the Dashboard +link, but the url is not dynamic with that function.

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