Hi, we're setting up grafana kiosk on a raspberry pi 3, mostly following the blog. I'm confused about the LXDE option as there's no explanation and I'm unfamiliar with it. What can I do with the LXDE option? Can we add this to the documentation?

I'm starting grafana-kiosk with

./grafana-kiosk.linux.amd64 --URL "https://<grafana-url>/playlists/play/2" --login-method local --username "<redacted>" --password "<redacted>" --kiosk-mode disabled --playlist

and see the screen as if I was not logged in. If I proceed to the "Sign In" button in the bottom left of the Grafana UI, I see the login form being filled in with the parameters I have passed in the command above. I am automatically logged in without clicking anything else after "Sign In".

This means, the whole kiosk is not starting without user interaction as I have to proceed to the "Sign In" button after starting. Is there any way to prevent this?

hi,

we're using this on a some raspis to display metrics on the wall. two weeks ago, it stopped working.

i have a start script that connects to a VPN, and then does this:

/home/pi/grafana-kiosk/bin/grafana-kiosk.linux.armv7 \
  --URL https://${URL}/playlists/play/1 --playlist \
  --login-method local \
  --username ${USER}  \
  --password ${PASSWORD} \
  --kiosk-mode full \
  --lxde

in the log, it says this:

2019/11/05 16:35:27 Navigating to  https://${URL}/playlists/play/1?kiosk=1&autofitpanels
2019/11/05 16:35:34 ERROR: unhandled page event *page.EventWindowOpen

(with the correct URL)

on the screen, the browser opens, and then loads the grafana login page. however, it then does NOT seem to enter the credentials (this was what i could observe before), but takes me to the online documentation:

https://grafana.com/docs/

grafana: Grafana v6.4.3
chromium: 74.0.3729.157

running on raspbian.

any ideas? could it be that they changed the login process in a way that no longer works with grafana-kiosk?

During initialization, the unclutter command is looking for an arg for the -display variable which is not provided. unclutter ends in an error though it still seems to work.

Kevin

Hi,

the tool works really great 👍 However, i currently have a small problem with a Rapsi 4. When i run this command from the command line in the Raspi Desktop /usr/bin/grafana-kiosk --URL ${dashboard} --login-method local --username xxx --password xxx --kiosk-mode full --lxde
The Kiosk starts fine without any problems. The command line output looks like this:

2020/03/26 14:19:30 path: /home/pi
2020/03/26 14:19:30 command: /usr/bin/lxpanel
2020/03/26 14:19:30 arg0: --profile
2020/03/26 14:19:30 Waiting for command to finish...
2020/03/26 14:19:30 Command finished with error: exit status 1
2020/03/26 14:19:30 path: /home/pi
2020/03/26 14:19:30 command: /usr/bin/pcmanfm
2020/03/26 14:19:30 arg0: --desktop
2020/03/26 14:19:30 Waiting for command to finish...
2020/03/26 14:19:30 path: /home/pi
2020/03/26 14:19:30 command: /usr/bin/xset
2020/03/26 14:19:30 arg0: --desktop
2020/03/26 14:19:30 Waiting for command to finish...
2020/03/26 14:19:30 path: /home/pi
2020/03/26 14:19:30 command: /usr/bin/xset
2020/03/26 14:19:30 arg0: s
2020/03/26 14:19:30 Waiting for command to finish...
2020/03/26 14:19:30 path: /home/pi
2020/03/26 14:19:30 command: /usr/bin/xset
2020/03/26 14:19:30 arg0: -dpms
2020/03/26 14:19:30 Waiting for command to finish...
2020/03/26 14:19:30 path: /home/pi
2020/03/26 14:19:30 command: /usr/bin/xset
2020/03/26 14:19:30 arg0: s
2020/03/26 14:19:30 Waiting for command to finish...
2020/03/26 14:19:30 DISPLAY not set, autosetting to :0.0
2020/03/26 14:19:30 DISPLAY= :0.0
2020/03/26 14:19:30 XAUTHORITY not set, autosetting
2020/03/26 14:19:30 XAUTHORITY= /home/pi/.Xauthority
2020/03/26 14:19:30 Launching local login kiosk
2020/03/26 14:19:30 path: /home/pi
2020/03/26 14:19:30 command: /usr/bin/unclutter
2020/03/26 14:19:30 arg0: -display
2020/03/26 14:19:30 Waiting for command to finish...
2020/03/26 14:19:35 Command finished with error: exit status 1
2020/03/26 14:19:35 KioskMode: Fullscreen
2020/03/26 14:19:35 Navigating to  http://grafana.docker.schoeps.local/d/DGlkbBXWz/fertigung-kapsel?kiosk=1&autofitpanels

When i use the same command in the autostart file in the .config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart and reboot. The Dashboard does not startup. I just see a very small black desktop.
Without the --lxde option everything works fine but than the screensaver turns on at a certain point.
When i'm than running the same command in the lxde desktop the command line output looks like this.

2020/03/26 14:04:42 path: /home/pi
2020/03/26 14:04:42 command: /usr/bin/lxpanel
2020/03/26 14:04:42 arg0: --profile
2020/03/26 14:04:42 Waiting for command to finish...
2020/03/26 14:04:42 Command finished with error: exit status 1
2020/03/26 14:04:42 path: /home/pi
2020/03/26 14:04:42 command: /usr/bin/pcmanfm
2020/03/26 14:04:42 arg0: --desktop
2020/03/26 14:04:42 Waiting for command to finish...

I use the grafana-kiosk.linux.armv7 binary on a raspi 4. Maybe this helps.

What happened:
When I embedded links to the Grafana Share Dashboard in other projects, I used the parameter &kiosk to hide the left, header navigation and also the query criteria.

What you expected to happen:
After hiding the left and head navigation, the query condition should be displayed, what should I do?

now:

expected:

Environment:
Grafana version: Grafana v8.0.3
Data source type & version: prometheus
OS Grafana is installed on: Linux
User OS & Browser: Linux & Chrome

With passwords as parameters, credentials might get exposed accidentally through procfs (e.g. via top).

Hi. I would like to run this without a window manager (on a RPI4).

Generally, it works well, however, Chromium does not recognize the screen size correctly.

from my understanding a flag can be passed to it , for example : -window-size=1280,1024

Hi!

Thank you for this program first place!

I have a question that is it possible to change google chrome, to the new chromium edge ?

Thank you!

I use grafana-kiosk on a RPi 2B on Raspbian 10 Buster with a config file, but when I set autofit to false it doesn't actually diable autofit.

I know it's already on the TODO list.
But I wonder if there is a way to use the kiosk at the moment if you already use OAuth2.

• Is there any progress with OAuth2 yet?
• Is there a HowTo for using the Kiosk if you already use OAuth2?

Best regards
Kai

Grafana: 6.4.1
grafana-kiosk: amd64 (latest binary grafana-kiosk.linux.amd64)
method: local

When using grafana-kiosk with the most recent version of grafana v6.4.1, with a local login method, it does not achieve successful login. Chrome ends up on the 'login/reset password' page (grafanarootURL/user/password/send-reset-email).

What I think is happening sequentially;

• The 'email or username' field is skipped
• The 'password' field is filled with something (probably the password?)
• The 'Forgot your password?' is clicked

I looked briefly at the code and inspected the form, I'm guessing that the name change field of the 'email or username' field might have to do something with it. I think historically it was 'username' but now it is 'user'.

Hello.
I am the only one not able to launch Grafana kiosk after the Chromium update?
I am on Raspbian Bullseye, and launching kiost ends in a black screen and stuck on Launching status

pi@displejpi:~ $ /usr/bin/grafana-kiosk --URL https://play.grafana.org/playlists/play/1 --login-method anon --kiosk-mode full
2022/02/24 17:58:46 No config specified, using environment and args
2022/02/24 17:58:46 AutoFit: true
2022/02/24 17:58:46 LXDEEnabled: false
2022/02/24 17:58:46 LXDEHome: /home/pi
2022/02/24 17:58:46 Mode: full
2022/02/24 17:58:46 WindowPosition: 0,0
2022/02/24 17:58:46 URL: https://play.grafana.org/playlists/play/1
2022/02/24 17:58:46 LoginMethod: anon
2022/02/24 17:58:46 Username: guest
2022/02/24 17:58:46 Password: redacted
2022/02/24 17:58:46 IgnoreCertificateErrors: false
2022/02/24 17:58:46 IsPlayList: false
2022/02/24 17:58:46 Fieldname Username: false
2022/02/24 17:58:46 Fieldname Username: username
2022/02/24 17:58:46 Fieldname Password: password
2022/02/24 17:58:46 AutoFit: true
2022/02/24 17:58:46 LXDEEnabled: false
2022/02/24 17:58:46 LXDEHome: /home/pi
2022/02/24 17:58:46 Mode: full
2022/02/24 17:58:46 WindowPosition: 0,0
2022/02/24 17:58:46 URL: https://play.grafana.org/playlists/play/1
2022/02/24 17:58:46 LoginMethod: anon
2022/02/24 17:58:46 Username: guest
2022/02/24 17:58:46 Password: redacted
2022/02/24 17:58:46 IgnoreCertificateErrors: false
2022/02/24 17:58:46 IsPlayList: false
2022/02/24 17:58:46 Fieldname Username: false
2022/02/24 17:58:46 Fieldname Username: username
2022/02/24 17:58:46 Fieldname Password: password
2022/02/24 17:58:46 DISPLAY not set, autosetting to :0.0
2022/02/24 17:58:46 DISPLAY= :0.0
2022/02/24 17:58:46 XAUTHORITY not set, autosetting
2022/02/24 17:58:46 XAUTHORITY= /home/pi/.Xauthority
2022/02/24 17:58:46 method anon
2022/02/24 17:58:46 Launching ANON login kiosk

Hi,

I would like to request for AWS Managed Grafana login support. I have tried -login-method goauth but it doesn't work.

grafana-kiosk --URL https://g-xxxxxxxx.grafana-workspace.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/playlists/play/3 --login-method goauth --username xxxxxx --password xxxxxx --auto-login true --kiosk-mode full

Thank you!

Hello, I am running Pi version 8 with everything up-to-date. When I try to run grafana-kiosk, I get a white screen. Here 's what I run:

./grafana-kiosk/bin/grafana-kiosk.linux.armv7 --URL https://play.grafana.org/playlists/play/1 --login-method anon --kiosk-mode full --lxde

I've tried it with and without the --lxde parameter.

My Pi shows a white screen and that is it. I've tested this command on a mac and it works without issue using the mac version of grafana-kiosk.

Here is what I see on the command line after running the command

pi@mpdash:~ $ ./grafana-kiosk/bin/grafana-kiosk.linux.armv7 --URL https://play.grafana.org/playlists/play/1 --login-method anon --kiosk-mode full --lxde
2019/09/13 14:28:50 path: /home/pi
2019/09/13 14:28:50 command: /usr/bin/lxpanel
2019/09/13 14:28:50 arg0: --profile
2019/09/13 14:28:50 Waiting for command to finish...
2019/09/13 14:28:50 Command finished with error: exit status 1
2019/09/13 14:28:50 path: /home/pi
2019/09/13 14:28:50 command: /usr/bin/pcmanfm
2019/09/13 14:28:50 arg0: --desktop
2019/09/13 14:28:50 Waiting for command to finish...
2019/09/13 14:28:50 path: /home/pi
2019/09/13 14:28:50 command: /usr/bin/xset
2019/09/13 14:28:50 arg0: --desktop
2019/09/13 14:28:50 Waiting for command to finish...
2019/09/13 14:28:50 path: /home/pi
2019/09/13 14:28:50 command: /usr/bin/xset
2019/09/13 14:28:50 arg0: s
2019/09/13 14:28:50 Waiting for command to finish...
2019/09/13 14:28:50 path: /home/pi
2019/09/13 14:28:50 command: /usr/bin/xset
2019/09/13 14:28:50 arg0: -dpms
2019/09/13 14:28:50 Waiting for command to finish...
2019/09/13 14:28:50 path: /home/pi
2019/09/13 14:28:50 command: /usr/bin/xset
2019/09/13 14:28:50 arg0: s
2019/09/13 14:28:50 Waiting for command to finish...
2019/09/13 14:28:50 DISPLAY not set, autosetting to :0.0
2019/09/13 14:28:50 DISPLAY= :0.0
2019/09/13 14:28:50 XAUTHORITY not set, autosetting
2019/09/13 14:28:50 path: /home/pi
2019/09/13 14:28:50 command: /usr/bin/unclutter
2019/09/13 14:28:50 arg0: -display
2019/09/13 14:28:50 XAUTHORITY= /home/pi/.Xauthority
2019/09/13 14:28:50 Launching ANON login kiosk
2019/09/13 14:28:50 Waiting for command to finish...

Any ideas?
Thanks,
Larry

Hi, never submitted an issue via Github before so hopefully I am doing so correctly. Let me know if I need to correct anything or provide additional information. I am copy/pasting the info below from my post on Grafana.com community since the template there requests quite a bit of information.

What Grafana version and what operating system are you using?
Hosted Grafana v8.0.3, grafana-kiosk v1.0.2
Used on both Raspbian and Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS

What are you trying to achieve?
Use grafana-kiosk to display a dashboard on Hosted Grafana using gcom login method

How are you trying to achieve it?
Running grafana-kiosk with -c parameter, specifying gcom login method, grafana username, password, and dashboard url

What happened?
Used to work, stopped working a couple of weeks ago. It will launch the browser and display the login page - with the button that says “Sign in with Grafana.com” but will not proceed beyond this point

What did you expect to happen?
I expected it to proceed to the sign in page which asks for username and password, perform the login, and display the dashboard

Can you copy/paste the configuration(s) that you are having problems with?
If needed I can provide screenshots or config snippets

Did you receive any errors in the Grafana UI or in related logs? If so, please tell us exactly what they were.
No

Did you follow any online instructions? If so, what is the URL?
GitHub - grafana/grafana-kiosk: Kiosk Utility for Grafana

I have searched for any other reports of this stopping working recently but haven’t been able to find anything.

I am not a professional programmer but looking in the grafana_com_login.go file, it looks like it is searching for an href with value login/grafana_com to find the login button, and looking at the sign in page I get when navigating to the dashboard URL in an incognito window, I don't think that search criteria is valid any longer. I could be wrong though. But console output stops at the line Navigating to -- no errors, simply doesn't proceed. I'm guessing it is just waiting for the href that will never load. I suppose at some point that wait would time out, causing an error, but I haven't waited that long to see.

Let me know if I can provide any other useful information. Would be lovely to get my kiosk working again! Thanks.

Is there a config.yaml option to set for Portrait vs landscape?

I have been seeing issues when running a single Grafana instance and signing in with basic auth. Signing in will work fine, but when the instance is restarted grafana-kiosk will be kicked back to the sign in page, but it will not try to sign in. The solution right now is to restart grafana-kiosk, but I feel like there may be a simpler solution to this problem.

What can be done to ENABLE screensaver, or screen blanking? i am using an amoled display and am naturally worried about burn-in...

Hi there,

i also encounter another problem with the kiosk when i start it as a service via systemd.
The output of journalctl -u grafana-kiosk show the following in raspi 4.

pi@inforasp1:~/infoscreens.git $ journalctl -u grafana-kiosk
-- Logs begin at Mon 2020-04-06 11:17:01 CEST, end at Mon 2020-04-06 12:10:43 CEST. --
Apr 06 12:09:46 inforasp1 systemd[1]: Started Grafana Kiosk.
Apr 06 12:09:46 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:46 path: /home/pi
Apr 06 12:09:46 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:46 command: /usr/bin/lxpanel
Apr 06 12:09:46 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:46 arg0: --profile
Apr 06 12:09:46 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:46 Waiting for command to finish...
Apr 06 12:09:48 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:48 Command finished with error: exit status 1
Apr 06 12:09:48 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:48 path: /home/pi
Apr 06 12:09:48 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:48 command: /usr/bin/pcmanfm
Apr 06 12:09:48 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:48 arg0: --desktop
Apr 06 12:09:48 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:48 Waiting for command to finish...
Apr 06 12:09:49 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:49 Command finished with error: exit status 1
Apr 06 12:09:49 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:49 path: /home/pi
Apr 06 12:09:49 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:49 command: /usr/bin/xset
Apr 06 12:09:49 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:49 arg0: --desktop
Apr 06 12:09:49 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:49 Waiting for command to finish...
Apr 06 12:09:49 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:49 Command finished with error: exit status 1
Apr 06 12:09:49 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:49 path: /home/pi
Apr 06 12:09:49 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:49 command: /usr/bin/xset
Apr 06 12:09:49 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:49 arg0: s
Apr 06 12:09:49 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:49 Waiting for command to finish...
Apr 06 12:09:49 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:49 Command finished with error: exit status 1
Apr 06 12:09:49 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:49 path: /home/pi
Apr 06 12:09:49 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:49 command: /usr/bin/xset
Apr 06 12:09:49 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:49 arg0: -dpms
Apr 06 12:09:49 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:49 Waiting for command to finish...
Apr 06 12:09:49 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:49 Command finished with error: exit status 1
Apr 06 12:09:49 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:49 path: /home/pi
Apr 06 12:09:49 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:49 command: /usr/bin/xset
Apr 06 12:09:49 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:49 arg0: s
Apr 06 12:09:49 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:49 Waiting for command to finish...
Apr 06 12:09:49 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:49 Command finished with error: exit status 1
Apr 06 12:09:49 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:49 DISPLAY= :0
Apr 06 12:09:49 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:49 XAUTHORITY= /home/pi/.Xauthority
Apr 06 12:09:49 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:49 Launching local login kiosk
Apr 06 12:09:49 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:49 path: /home/pi
Apr 06 12:09:49 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:49 command: /usr/bin/unclutter
Apr 06 12:09:49 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:49 arg0: -display
Apr 06 12:09:49 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:49 Waiting for command to finish...
Apr 06 12:09:49 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:49 Command finished with error: exit status 1
Apr 06 12:09:56 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[557]: 2020/04/06 12:09:56 KioskMode: Fullscreen

It seems that all xset commands fail. What happens than is that the screensaver turns on after a certain time.
When i then disable the service and re enable it i get the following output

-- Logs begin at Thu 2019-02-14 11:11:59 CET, end at Mon 2020-04-06 12:27:17 CEST. --
Apr 06 12:27:17 inforasp1 systemd[1]: Started Grafana Kiosk.
Apr 06 12:27:17 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[1100]: 2020/04/06 12:27:17 path: /home/pi
Apr 06 12:27:17 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[1100]: 2020/04/06 12:27:17 command: /usr/bin/lxpanel
Apr 06 12:27:17 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[1100]: 2020/04/06 12:27:17 arg0: --profile
Apr 06 12:27:17 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[1100]: 2020/04/06 12:27:17 Waiting for command to finish...
Apr 06 12:27:17 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[1100]: 2020/04/06 12:27:17 Command finished with error: exit status 1
Apr 06 12:27:17 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[1100]: 2020/04/06 12:27:17 path: /home/pi
Apr 06 12:27:17 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[1100]: 2020/04/06 12:27:17 command: /usr/bin/pcmanfm
Apr 06 12:27:17 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[1100]: 2020/04/06 12:27:17 arg0: --desktop
Apr 06 12:27:17 inforasp1 grafana-kiosk[1100]: 2020/04/06 12:27:17 Waiting for command to finish...

At this point the Dashboard does not start at all.
Does someone else experience this problems too ?

Hello,

the grafana-kiosk doesn't work with a newer version of chromium then 78.0.xxx, maybe someone have a solution?

Is possible to use some another browser? If yes, please how I can change it?

Many thanks.

I see there is an option to pass a bearer token directly in the header.

Wouldn't that be an option for grafana-kiosk ?

Hi, I was expecting the kiosk=tv mode to only hide the sidemenu/sidebar. When using the kiosk=tv mode the content of Dashboard submenu is also disappearing.

-kiosk-mode string
Kiosk Display Mode [full|tv|disabled]
full = No TOPNAV and No SIDEBAR
tv = No SIDEBAR

Thank you

Hello,
This kiosk binary look really nice to use, however I have two different dashboards located in two different locations and I have no way to display them both except to have an external script running the command one after the other, calculating playlist play time.
Could you please provide a way to set several URLs, looping on each URL once a playlist did a full run ?

I have tried release 1.0.1 and used the armv7 and amd64 binary packages in a Tinker board running in Tinker OS (debian) and Linux Mint respectively. The following Behaviour were observed:

• Both the armv7 and amd64 binary files fills the fields in the login page of the grafana instance i am connecting to, thus auto login is working.
• But after logging in it should redirect to the playlist, but instead it stays in the grafana main page . I have to manually click on the start playlist after navigating to the playlist page to start it.
  Here is the command that i am running and the outputs:

$ ./grafana-kiosk.linux.armv7 --URL https://insight.desec.io/grafana/playlists/play/1 --login-method local --username $uname --password $password --playlist
2020/04/16 11:15:18 playlist
2020/04/16 11:15:18 DISPLAY not set, autosetting to :0.0
2020/04/16 11:15:18 DISPLAY= :0.0
2020/04/16 11:15:18 XAUTHORITY not set, autosetting
2020/04/16 11:15:18 XAUTHORITY= /home/linaro/.Xauthority
2020/04/16 11:15:18 Launching local login kiosk
2020/04/16 11:15:20 KioskMode: Fullscreen
2020/04/16 11:15:20 Navigating to  https://insight.desec.io/grafana/playlists/play/1?inactive=1&kiosk=1&autofitpanels

I'm using a RPI 4 with its dual display outputs and would like to run the program twice to display a separate dashboard on each monitor.

Hello,

We are using rather slow Celeron Intel nucs for our Grafana screens. Sometimes, the startup is to slow and grafana-kiosk stops with an error. It would be great if this timeout could be extended or settable.

C:\xxxx\GrafanaKiosk>C:\xxxx\GrafanaKiosk\grafana-kiosk.windows.amd64.exe -c C:\xxxx\GrafanaKiosk\config.yaml
2020/08/24 10:18:40 Using config from C:\temp\GrafanaKiosk\config.yaml
2020/08/24 10:18:41 AutoFit: true
2020/08/24 10:18:41 LXDEEnabled: false
2020/08/24 10:18:41 LXDEHome: /home/pi
2020/08/24 10:18:41 Mode: full
2020/08/24 10:18:41 URL: https://grafana.xxxx.xxxx/playlists/play/9?kiosk
2020/08/24 10:18:41 LoginMethod: local
2020/08/24 10:18:41 Username: xxxx
2020/08/24 10:18:41 Password: *redacted*
2020/08/24 10:18:41 IgnoreCertificateErrors: false
2020/08/24 10:18:41 IsPlayList: true
2020/08/24 10:18:41 AutoFit: true
2020/08/24 10:18:41 LXDEEnabled: false
2020/08/24 10:18:41 LXDEHome: /home/pi
2020/08/24 10:18:41 Mode: full
2020/08/24 10:18:41 URL: https://grafana.xxxx.xxxx/playlists/play/9?kiosk
2020/08/24 10:18:41 LoginMethod: local
2020/08/24 10:18:41 Username: xxxx
2020/08/24 10:18:41 Password: *redacted*
2020/08/24 10:18:41 IgnoreCertificateErrors: false
2020/08/24 10:18:41 IsPlayList: true
2020/08/24 10:18:41 DISPLAY not set, autosetting to :0.0
2020/08/24 10:18:41 DISPLAY= :0.0
2020/08/24 10:18:41 XAUTHORITY not set, autosetting
2020/08/24 10:18:41 XAUTHORITY= /.Xauthority
2020/08/24 10:18:41 method  local
2020/08/24 10:18:41 Launching local login kiosk
panic: websocket url timeout reached

goroutine 1 [running]:
github.com/grafana/grafana-kiosk/pkg/kiosk.GrafanaKioskLocal(0xc0000c3490)
        /go/src/github.com/grafana/grafana-kiosk/pkg/kiosk/local_login.go:49 +0xc24
main.main()
        /go/src/github.com/grafana/grafana-kiosk/pkg/cmd/grafana-kiosk/main.go:153 +0x35e

Kind regards,
Bastiaan van Haastrecht

I just tried your solution on raspbian (buster) and It works perfectly, the only thing I am missing is return to main dashboard when iddle, as my dashboard is on interactive screen. I was trying to fix it by installing chromium plug-in but it didn't helped. Any ideas for walkaround? Or feature maybe?

I'm using a Raspberry Pi 3b and Grafana v6.6.1. and trying to run your grafana-kiosk tool.
But I get the error Message:
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo /usr/bin/grafana-kiosk --URL https://localhost:3000 --login-method local --username admin --password ** --kiosk-mode tv

sudo: /usr/bin/grafana-kiosk: Befehl nicht gefunden

Befehl nicht gefunden = command not found

I downloade the .zip from "releases", extract grafana-kiosk.linux.armv7 to /usr/bin/ and renamed it to grafana-kiosk. Like you deskrip it in the manual. But runing the comand gets me the Err.
What am I doing wrong ?

When starting a playlist with two dashboards, one with normal graphs and one with a flowchart floorpan. the flowchart stays like a white screen.

Grafana version 7.1.5, using the Grafana-kios v1.0.2

I decided to give up raspberries because she stopped coping with our boards and took a more powerful computer and connected two monitors with different boards to it. But I can't figure out how to run the third instance on another screen. In ubuntu 20.04, both monitors display: 0
Please help!

Is there any configuration to set the refresh cycle for the dashboard on startup?

Thanks for the great software. Why would this config.yml throw up a save dialog when the playlist refreshes? TIA

general:
kiosk-mode: full
autofit: true

lxde: true

lxde-home: /home/pi

target:
login-method: local
username: admin
password: admin

playlist: true
URL: http://192.168.1.66:3000/d/cnvlgOEGk/mobile-physical-and-temp?orgId=1&kiosk&refresh=1m
ignore-certificate-errors: false

Can you build source code of new release 1.0.1

Any recommendation for an argument that disables Chromium Update ( failed update) check? I tried adding
chromium-browser --check-for-update-interval=1 --simulate-critical-update
can help stop the pop-up.
Tried adding arguments on usr/bin/grafana-kiosk command line but no luck

Using the latest commit I am receiving the following when running make:

$ make
Building grafana-kiosk
GO111MODULE=on GOOS=darwin GOARCH=amd64 go build -o bin/grafana-kiosk.darwin pkg/cmd/grafana-kiosk/main.go
# command-line-arguments
pkg/cmd/grafana-kiosk/main.go:84:19: undefined: kiosk.Config
pkg/cmd/grafana-kiosk/main.go:100:10: undefined: kiosk.Config
Makefile:8: recipe for target 'dev' failed
make: *** [dev] Error 2

It looks like the kiosk.Config object isn't created. I tried renaming this to "Args" to take advantage of the custom type at the top of main.go, but that didn't work either. I've not really used the cleanenv library before, or even Go for that matter. I'm probably just missing a step somewhere.

In the Usage section, there is an option for --playlist. However, the --help flag of the program shows --playlists.

  -playlists
        URL is a playlist

Can you correct this in the documentation?

What I expect to happen: I run /usr/bin/grafana-kiosk -c /home/pi/grafana-kiosk/grafana-kiosk-config.yaml and grafana-kiosk opens chromium and logs into my instance of grafana.

What happens: Chromium loads as fullscreen as expected, it loads my grafana login page, and then enters the login and password. But it does not log in

System: Raspberry Pi Zero 1.1 running latest Raspberry Pi OS Lite, Openbox
Grafana version: grafana/grafana:8.3.4 - deployed via kube-prometheus
config:

general:
  kiosk-mode: full
  autofit: true
  lxde: false

target:
  login-method: local
  username: mygrafanaadmin
  password: changeme
  playlist: false
  URL: https://user:[email protected]
  ignore-certificate-errors: false

My instance of grafana is behind a basic htpasswd ingress + it does local login. Not sure if that's relevant, but I've recreated this issue with and without it.

Let me know any other information I can provide

Is it possible to set a zoom value? It would be super helpful if anyone is using a 4k tv for grafana.

Like you see in the picture above, the text scaling on gauges is broken, so the value text overflows into the gauge graphic instead of scaling down

Hi,

I'm using openSUSE/SLES as OS on top of RPI 3b+. It is impossible to get Chromium up and running due to all its dependencies.

Firefox is installed by default. Can you provide for Firefox as well?

Update to use go mod and remove all of the vendored code

When setting autofit=false from config.yaml, it is overridden by env-default=true

My Playlist is stuck on the first screen. Below is my config. It logs in properly and shows the first dashboard but it never moves on to the next one.

general:
  kiosk-mode: tv
  autofit: true
  lxde: true
  lxde-home: /home/pi

target:
  login-method: local
  username: ****
  password: ***

  playlist: true
  URL: https://*****:3000/d/UcQvlA_Wz
  ignore-certificate-errors: true

goauth:
  auto-login: false
  fieldname-username: username
  fieldname-password: password

Grafana provides API keys to login, would be cool to support it

I think it would be useful to have to possibility to disable SSL verification using an argument like --disable-ssl-verification for on-premise Grafana installations.

What is the recommended way to autostart grafana-kiosk? If it's systemd can we add a template service file to the repo? I've tried setting it up with the following:

[Unit]
Description=Grafana Kiosk

[Service]
User=pi
Environment="DISPLAY=:0"
Environment="XAUTHORITY=/home/pi/.Xauthority"
ExecStart=/usr/bin/grafana-kiosk --URL <url>  -login-method local -username <username> -password <password> -playlist true

[Install]
WantedBy=graphical.target

This works, except that in the UI chrome complains with a big banner: You are using an unsupported command-line flag: --no-sandbox. Stability and security will suffer. This doesn't come up when I run the same grafana-kiosk command just in command line via ssh.
The blog post was semi helpful, but it is kinda frustrating that it doesn't include how to do the full setup and just ignores the fact that you'd want this to be autostarted

EDIT: the chrome issue is because the service was running as root. I edited it to specify to run the service as the user pi and it works now. Can we add this service file to the repo?

I'm running grafana-kiosk on a Raspberry pi 4 .

Running the tool will produce this error :

root@agent:/home/thib3113# ./grafana-kiosk.linux.armv6 -c /home/pi/grafana/config.yml
2021/06/29 11:18:07 Using config from /home/pi/grafana/config.yml
2021/06/29 11:18:07 AutoFit: true
2021/06/29 11:18:07 LXDEEnabled: false
2021/06/29 11:18:07 LXDEHome: /home/pi
2021/06/29 11:18:07 Mode: disabled
2021/06/29 11:18:07 WindowPosition: 0,0
2021/06/29 11:18:07 URL: https://********/playlists/play/1
2021/06/29 11:18:07 LoginMethod: local
2021/06/29 11:18:07 Username: **********
2021/06/29 11:18:07 Password: **********
2021/06/29 11:18:07 IgnoreCertificateErrors: false
2021/06/29 11:18:07 IsPlayList: true
2021/06/29 11:18:07 Fieldname Username: false
2021/06/29 11:18:07 Fieldname Username:
2021/06/29 11:18:07 Fieldname Password:
2021/06/29 11:18:07 AutoFit: true
2021/06/29 11:18:07 LXDEEnabled: false
2021/06/29 11:18:07 LXDEHome: /home/pi
2021/06/29 11:18:07 Mode: disabled
2021/06/29 11:18:07 WindowPosition: 0,0
2021/06/29 11:18:07 URL: https://********/playlists/play/1
2021/06/29 11:18:07 LoginMethod: local
2021/06/29 11:18:07 Username: raspberrypi
2021/06/29 11:18:07 Password: *redacted*
2021/06/29 11:18:07 IgnoreCertificateErrors: false
2021/06/29 11:18:07 IsPlayList: true
2021/06/29 11:18:07 Fieldname Username: false
2021/06/29 11:18:07 Fieldname Username:
2021/06/29 11:18:07 Fieldname Password:
2021/06/29 11:18:07 DISPLAY not set, autosetting to :0.0
2021/06/29 11:18:07 DISPLAY= :0.0
2021/06/29 11:18:07 XAUTHORITY not set, autosetting
2021/06/29 11:18:07 XAUTHORITY= /root/.Xauthority
2021/06/29 11:18:07 method  local
2021/06/29 11:18:07 Launching local login kiosk
panic: invalid exec pool flag

goroutine 1 [running]:
github.com/grafana/grafana-kiosk/pkg/kiosk.GrafanaKioskLocal(0x15226c0)
        /go/src/github.com/grafana/grafana-kiosk/pkg/kiosk/local_login.go:50 +0x9cc
main.main()
        /go/src/github.com/grafana/grafana-kiosk/pkg/cmd/grafana-kiosk/main.go:171 +0x2c8

I'm using the same configuration for the 1.0.2 and it works ( I tryed .armv6 / armv7 and same error )

This is an improvement request:

Great plugin! It would be really useful to allow users to select the displayed time range while in kiosk mode.

when running make:

flag provided but not defined: -trimpath
usage: go build [-o output] [-i] [build flags] [packages]
Run 'go help build' for details.
make: *** [Makefile:20: grafana-kiosk] Error 2