gryph-display-panel | Digital Signage for the University of Guelph

Before being hosted data/auth.txt needs to be configured with Active Net credentials. The first line must contain the plaintext username for the account and the second line must contain the corresponding password. This file is accompanied by a .htaccess file to protect it from being served with Apache. The latest version distributable version of GDP can be downloaded from the project releases page or built interactively using grunt. Either way the web application can be deployed by uploading the contents of 'dist' to a web server. Ensure that the 'cache' directory has full read-write access for the apache user or else swiping will not work-- ie. chmod -R 777 cache . GDP requires PHP and has been tested as working with versions 5.3, 5.6, and 7.0.
The kiosks will be deployed on about a dozen Raspberry Pi 3s paired with 22" Dell touchscreen LCD displays. The Pis are running a customized version of Raspbian Jessie Lite. It runs a full-screen Midori browser using Matchbox window manager. This package mounts the SD card as read-only in order to improve security and prolong the life of SD cards. The filesystem can be easily be remounted with either read-only or read-write access for maintenance, etc. by executing /root/remount.sh ro or /root/remount.sh rw , respectively. tty2 onwards have been disabled to prevent tampering and the sudo account cannot be SSHed into directly. Only the gdp user can be SSHed into using public-private key pairs.
Download the latest image from gryphons.ca.
Expand the gzip archive; ie. tar xvzf gdp-v1.img.tar.gz.
dd the image onto the SD card; ie. dd bs=512 if=~/Downloads/gdp.img of=/dev/rdisk2.
Download the latest image from gryphons.ca.
Download 7zip to expand the gzip archive.
Download Win32 Disk Imager to copy the image onto the SD card.