From Raspberry Pi to Fullscreen Youtube Kiosk in 5 Minutes with Thymis
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The Thymis platform allows users to quickly set up a Raspberry Pi as a fullscreen YouTube kiosk with zero-touch provisioning, sparking interest in its potential for device management.
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The interesting bit (to me, at least) is zero‑touch provisioning:
You only flash one generic image per device type. On first boot, the Pi connects back to a controller (cloud or self‑hosted). It automatically pulls Wi‑Fi + kiosk config, provisions itself, and starts Chromium in fullscreen. Optional VNC lets you see the screen remotely, even behind NAT.
The blog post is a simple demo (digital signage is a common request), but the broader aim is scaling fleet management for Pis and other NixOS‑based edge devices without manual setup.
Would be curious how others here have handled digital signage, kiosks, or multi‑device deployments — we tried to minimize the usual “burn SD cards + SSH into everything” pain.