Kiosk Interface

The Kiosk Interface is used in the Science Museum Kiosk ecosystem to build packages for deployment to kiosks.

Up and Running

To start working on the Kiosk Interface, complete the following steps:

• clone this repo
• run yarn in the root directory
• run yarn start to start developing

Testing on a kiosk

To create a package that can be manually transferred to a kiosk, run yarn build:package. This command will build the testing version of the package, and produce a .package file that can then be transferred to a kiosk using the kiosk debug menu (command / control + d)

Custom Pages

Custom pages, or articles, allow specialised components to be added to a kiosk package.

Workflow

• Create a component under the src/components/pages folder
• Make appropriate changes to src/components/Article.jsx#makeMixedArticle to add your component
• Add a sample manifest page to the demo manifest at public/manifest.json
• Test that the component functions as expected by running yarn build:package
• Create a custom page in the KMS (currently via tinker on the command line)

3D Model

See ADDING_A_3D_MODEL.md

Updating Staging

• SSH into the staging environment
• Change kiosk_version to the bitbucket pipeline number inside /var/www/kiosk_manager/.env (requires sudo)
• run sudo service php7.3-fpm restart
• run sudo supervisorctl restart all