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Cage: a Wayland kiosk 0.2 released (github.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is Cage, a Wayland kiosk. A kiosk runs a single, maximized application.

This README is only relevant for development resources and instructions. For a description of Cage and installation instructions for end-users, please see its project page and the Wiki.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Has anyone tried using this with the Jellyfin TV web interface? It would take a little setup but theoretically you could use a Bluetooth remote and the web interface for a simple TV.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Kodi with the Jellyfin plugin also works really well. With LibreELEC or CoreELEC it can also be installed as a locked down kiosk client.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Re: jellyfin plugin

Never managed to get it to complete a scan of the music database. Always kept crashing. Then left a load of zombie items in kodis media library.

Honestly wasn't impressed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do you use the plugin mode (access via HTTP) or the direct mode (access directly via SMB)?

Music libraries are a mess in plugin mode.

Still not the best UI in the world but it's the only Jellyfin player I found that can do seamless refresh rate switching, HDR playback, audio passthrough and has no issues with high bitrate 4k60 hardware decoding.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Http. I don't have SMB shares on anything as I have no windows machines in the house.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

SMB works on all operating systems, my server runs on Linux and Kodi also runs on Linux. (NFS is also supported)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I know it does, but it's not generally a service I have running. It's yet another thing to setup. NFS isn't great over WiFi I've found. It likes rock solid connections.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Does this work on a Raspberry Pi? Do Wayland compositors work in general with whatever GPU drivers they have?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yes, wayland works on the raspberry pi

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

This+Homeassistant web portal should make for a very nice little tablet-kiosk