On a Pi 4 or Pi 5, with 2GB or 4GB RAM, this would be fairly easy, and there's a tutorial to do it: How to use a Raspberry Pi in kiosk mode
It's not impossible to do it on a Pi 1, or at least it shouldn't be. It's probably more powerful than the quad CPU 256MB UNIX database server that I managed in the 1990s, and that handled the financials for the EMEA region of a NASDAQ company, in addition to a bunch of other admin stuff, but somehow it has become difficult to run a minimal desktop and browser in that much memory today.
Nginx is probably a red herring, it's a web server, not a browser. If the Pi was serving the page in addition to displaying it, maybe, but not to just display a page in a kiosk mode browser.
Wayland isn't going to be viable on a Pi 1, you'll need to use the good old X11 desktop. That's why the tutorial linked above won't directly work for you (but it might give some inspiration).
You've got essentially 2 choices for the OS. Lite or standard. You don't need/want Full for this, although it would still work, it's simpler/easier to have a smaller number of installed packages as your starting point. You can start with Lite and install a X11 desktop on it, or standard will have a basic desktop that should mostly work out of the box.
One thing to consider is the amount of time and effort you want to put into this. A Pi 4 2GB is pretty cheap, and you'd be up and running in kiosk mode pretty much instantly. Save the Pi 1 for tinkering, and learning Linux or coding, etc. Just a thought.
It's not impossible to do it on a Pi 1, or at least it shouldn't be. It's probably more powerful than the quad CPU 256MB UNIX database server that I managed in the 1990s, and that handled the financials for the EMEA region of a NASDAQ company, in addition to a bunch of other admin stuff, but somehow it has become difficult to run a minimal desktop and browser in that much memory today.
Nginx is probably a red herring, it's a web server, not a browser. If the Pi was serving the page in addition to displaying it, maybe, but not to just display a page in a kiosk mode browser.
Wayland isn't going to be viable on a Pi 1, you'll need to use the good old X11 desktop. That's why the tutorial linked above won't directly work for you (but it might give some inspiration).
You've got essentially 2 choices for the OS. Lite or standard. You don't need/want Full for this, although it would still work, it's simpler/easier to have a smaller number of installed packages as your starting point. You can start with Lite and install a X11 desktop on it, or standard will have a basic desktop that should mostly work out of the box.
One thing to consider is the amount of time and effort you want to put into this. A Pi 4 2GB is pretty cheap, and you'd be up and running in kiosk mode pretty much instantly. Save the Pi 1 for tinkering, and learning Linux or coding, etc. Just a thought.
Statistics: Posted by Murph9000 — Thu Sep 26, 2024 4:26 am