I’ve been working on Thymis, an open‑source device management platform, and just published a short demo showing how to take a fresh Raspberry Pi and boot it straight into a fullscreen YouTube kiosk in under 5 minutes.
The interesting bit (to me, at least) is zero‑touch provisioning:
You only flash one generic image per device type.
On first boot, the Pi connects back to a controller (cloud or self‑hosted).
It automatically pulls Wi‑Fi + kiosk config, provisions itself, and starts Chromium in fullscreen.
Optional VNC lets you see the screen remotely, even behind NAT.
The blog post is a simple demo (digital signage is a common request), but the broader aim is scaling fleet management for Pis and other NixOS‑based edge devices without manual setup.
Would be curious how others here have handled digital signage, kiosks, or multi‑device deployments — we tried to minimize the usual “burn SD cards + SSH into everything” pain.
elikoga•5mo ago
The interesting bit (to me, at least) is zero‑touch provisioning:
You only flash one generic image per device type. On first boot, the Pi connects back to a controller (cloud or self‑hosted). It automatically pulls Wi‑Fi + kiosk config, provisions itself, and starts Chromium in fullscreen. Optional VNC lets you see the screen remotely, even behind NAT.
The blog post is a simple demo (digital signage is a common request), but the broader aim is scaling fleet management for Pis and other NixOS‑based edge devices without manual setup.
Would be curious how others here have handled digital signage, kiosks, or multi‑device deployments — we tried to minimize the usual “burn SD cards + SSH into everything” pain.