Nerves kiosk on x86_64 - problems with buildroot

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I’m trying to use Nerves and NervesHub to deploy to x86_64 based kiosk hardware. I’d like to use Chrome (or maybe Firefox) running in full screen mode. I’m having a difficult time getting buildroot to work with X and Chromium. The builds take forever so iterating is painful.

Can I use Ubuntu or Debian instead of buildroot? Can anyone point me to documentation or other projects that might help me figure this out?

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It’s been done in the past using the QT5WEBENGINE…

try taking a look at GitHub - nerves-web-kiosk/webengine_kiosk: Qt WebEngine-based kiosk (and the GitHub - nerves-web-kiosk/kiosk_system_x86_64: Nerves QTWebEngineKiosk system for x86_64 targets target)

though it’s out of date and archived… it may lead the way to something useful… keeps us posted!

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@elcritch has a somewhat newer fork going here: GitHub - elcritch/webengine_kiosk: Qt WebEngine-based kiosk

maybe they can shed some light on the state of affairs for running nerves_kiosk…

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Thank you. Trying this now.

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