Advanced users • Getting around pi-greeter after Display powered off

Hi,

I have a Raspberrty Pi 5, which I have configured as a Kiosk.

(It is configured to auto-login and run a python script which uses Chromium/Selenium to access a web page and start the presentation (and make it full screen).

Anyway, the problem is that it will be attached to a display which (I just found out) will be regularly powered off/on. Testing this with my normal display, I see that it launches /usr/sbin/pi-greeter, when it receives a signal that the monitor has been powered back on. Someone then needs to enter their password to get into the system. (Since this will be keyboard-less kiosk, this will be a problem).

As a work around, I have replaced /usr/sbin/pi-greeter with a shell script to simply reboot the device when this happens. But is there an less disruptive way?

I've also tried simply removing pi-greeter (or replacing it with a script which simply return success) , but in both cases I just got a Black screen.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks
James

Statistics: Posted by james968 — Wed Apr 24, 2024 7:44 am

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