Submitted by abitowhit on Sat, 01/11/2020 - 19:29
Kiosk mode is a fairly simple way to set up a non-gui version of pi using just the CLI.
You build the pi to simply start with an open browser pointing to a simple web service.
You then set up the web service using html, etc to perform the tasks which you wish to accomplish.
Here is a very good article on how it should be done
Link
As in most cases, I would rather point to a good article than recreate the wheel. :)
*Note - where mentioned to edit the .bash_profile, this file will be in the root of the pi login or ~/. You can edit this file if you have created it by using
nano ~/.bash_profile. It normally does not exist, so you will need to create a new one if using it.
You may also have to use sudo depending on how you created it.
You can remove -nocursor if you want to be able to use the mouse on the display, else you will not have any local control of using a mouse.
(This may not matter if you are specifically using it from a remote web page.,)