I have an old Raspberry Pi B+ (cica 2015) it came out after the Pi 1s and before the Pi 2s. I would like to use it with a Pi 7” touchscreen to make a touch screen dashboard for my HA. I been trying different solutions I’ve found but most of them make use of chromium in kiosk mode, chromium won’t run on the B+ 🙁. I found several other older solutions but with all of them I’ve run into issues like files can’t be found anymore or have dependencies on libraries that can no longer be found like kweb kiosk browser or use things that are no longer supported by the OS like OTX.

Anyone using a B+ for an HA dashboard? Got any tips?

  • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Have you tried the kiosk OS they offer in the Raspberry Pi Imager software? I have been testing it out recently with a 4B and the official 7" touchscreen. There’s an issue with the graphics driver on the 4 and the 7" screen so I haven’t gotten it fully working but it might be an option for you.

    • AbidingOhmsLawOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I looked at the kiosks they have on the imager, 4 if I recall, and 3 of then were paid service based and the 4th used Chromium, that won’t run on the B+ :( I will have another look just in case I missed something.