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 …

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

Have a look at this - Wallpanel

@Sean-McG 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!

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

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 result…

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

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

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

[image] RogierQ: Enough to find about kiosks. And i have that running no problem. The problem is a variable url of the kiosk. 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 requirem…

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.…

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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