[Swansea Hackspace] Raspberry Pi - kiosk mode

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 20:28:49 +0000
Emyr Morris <em at preseli.com> wrote:

> calling Linux gurus!
> 
> I have my Chip Shop system working almost as I want it... but...
> 
> I was hoping to have something monitor chromium and if it detected that the
> browser had frozen / stopped responding or hadn't refreshed for a certain
> period of time, it would close the browser and re-open it
> 
> I thought I had found an example a few months ago and bookmarked it, but I
> can not for the life of me find the example again.
> 
> for example, I have a web page that is refreshed every 5 mins, if chromium
> has not refreshed in 10 mins it needs to be restarted.
> 
> currently I am using a very simple
> 
> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="120">
> 
> to reload the page,
> 
> I would value advice. Thanks

On a kiosk I'd make the server drive /dev/watchdog based upon activity.

Alan