Spotify Kiosk Mode Windows 10
Chamar Riche
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I would like my daughter (7) to have a device with Spotify on it so that she can listen to music in her room at night but not browse the Internet or play games, therefore her tablet is out. I have pondered the idea of putting Spotify on an old phone and locking it down to just that app but it seems overcomplicated (kiosk mode) or insufficient (app pinning). Just wondered if anyone had other ideas. Ta
In the end we got an old smartphone and removed sim, apps etc. And then also closed all the apps you can't remove. It's not perfect as you'd be surprised at the amount of notifications that still come up even after everything is disabled. It also won't be long before she can work out how to re-enable them. For now it just about works!
I think you could try the Fiio m6, is a small device with a android-based OS but it's made just for listening music, so you can't install any other apps. It supports spotify and other music streamming platforms. It is a little expensive...
I'm essentially looking for a dedicated terminal that I can hook up (wired, preferably?) to an a/v receiver. Despite the convenience of Chromecast (etc.) I really like the idea of a physical place to look through and put on music. Like a digital version of a turntable + record cabinet.
And I thought, I reached "your" goal, using an Amazon Fire tablet with a kid account, where you can block all browers and just enable the spotify app... And it worked several months until my little one found out that he could access www.spotify.com via "settings/quit spotify premium". He scrolled down the page and found a nice hub to access twitter in-app. From there he could search for all kind of videos.... Does anybody have an idea to block these in-app websites?
Hi, interesting thread to read. Did you find any further solutions to this? or at least with the Amazon Fire were you able to disable everything e.g. apps store (excuse my lack of understanding, only ever owned Apple stuff but we don't want to give them old phones)? Many thanks. Billy
Hello.
I am using the same technic as described here to launch spotify on my tablet from fully kiosk. It works great. I have a small problem however. The weblink from lovelace always open a new blank tab in fully kiosk. As anyone found a way to avoid that ? It s not very user friendly to have to close the blank tab each time
I also ran into this issue. Fortunately, multi-app kiosk mode utilizes AppLocker to allow the apps listed under the "AllowedApps" tag. You can use an asterisk (*) as a wildcard in your filepaths to include arbitrary paths that are generated from ClickOnce applications. You would make the following adjustment to your code:
I haven't been able to test whether the AMUID looking portion of that path, "danc..tion_57ca62a9d061b04b_0002.0000_6fffc994766df618" is generated as part of the install or if it's a GUID. It may also change when the ClickOnce apps updates, if that's the case, just remove that portion from the path and it should take care of it.
And for anybody using Intune, I wasn't able to include an asterisk in the path for a multi-app setup under the Kiosk Template. You will have to create a profile that includes the AssignedAccess policy and add your own XML. -us/windows/client-management/mdm/assignedaccess-csp
A small Raspberry Pi powered screen that displays what I am currently listening to. It sits, unassuming, next to my computer on the desk. When no music is playing it displays my most listened to albums from the past week, as well as my music listening stats pulled from Last.fm.
I started by following this basic guide to setting up a headless Raspberry Pi that can connect to my home WiFi. Next, I followed these basic steps to install the HyperPixel software so that the little screen worked. I knew that I basically wanted to set it up so that every time I booted up the device it would automatically open up a predefined website and sit there in a glorified kiosk mode. Relatively easy.
I created a Shortcut to control the Raspberry Pi with some basic commands. I then attached this into my Settings+ Shortcut that sits on my home screen, so I have easy access to all the options. You can duplicate what I created by changing out the IP address for your Pi:
This little dashboard is a lot of fun (especially for someone who has no idea what he is doing). I have now added a random inspirational quote generator and live google traffic map.
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@bmmiller
Do you think it would be possible to create a widget that could be used to open the Spotify app on an android OS? I imagine it may be too difficult to create a spotify widget, but one that can either open the Spotify app or webpage would suffice.
It works fine on my pc or laptop, but on the fire tablet I can only click the light for on and off, the dimmer slider is not usable. I tried on two different browsers of the fire, chrome, and fully kiosk and both are the same. Not sure if it has anything to do with the widgets not being movable on mobile devices? Either way not a big deal!
Do you think it would be possible to create a widget that could be used to open the Spotify app on an android OS? I imagine it may be too difficult to create a spotify widget, but one that can either open the Spotify app or webpage would suffice.
A walk-around for not having a real thermostat widget is to use webcore and create two switches that will either increase or decrease your thermostat heat/cool set points, that is what I did in my dashboard and it works perfectly.
@bmiller with the dimmer i had seen that other people were reporting it, and that even on the vanilla just installed dashboard it was not sliding either. I wouldnt have said anything if i thought it was isolated to my environment.
I am using two switches in the dashboard (hot switch and cold switch) that turn on a virtual switch that is tied to a webcore piston. When the hot switch is turned on it will increase the heat set point as well as the cool set point for my thermostat (so if it is in heat mode or AC mode is will work correctly), the same for the cool switch, it just lowers the heat/cool set points. I then have the switch automatically turn off after 1 second so it can be run again.
I am looking forward to what you come up with! As for the dimmer, I have yet to find a way to get them to work on any browser in any tablet/phone. Even my laptop with touchscreen I can only use the mouse to slide the dimmer, touchscreen can only turn it on and off.
Yes, the traffic widget has that issue. I looked into a way to fix it as it is a common issue but I dont understand the code enough to know where to put the fix. If you read here ( -map-show-after-screen-resize) I am sure you would understand it much more than I do. I just leave my tablet on with fully kiosk and after loading the map once it stays working fine updating the traffic data. Thanks again for your effort and if you figure out the traffic map please let me know!
An iPad makes a great "kiosk" device--a tablet restricted to one specific app for your home or small business. You can create a makeshift kiosk using the Guided Access feature, or enable Single App Mode for a true kiosk environment.
There are two ways to do this. Guided Access is the quickest, easiest way to put an iPad in kiosk mode. Guided Access is often thought of as a parental control feature, but it's actually intended for teachers in schools--that's why it's categorized as a "Learning" feature in Apple's iOS.
There's also Single App Mode, which is exactly what it sounds like: It fully locks your iPad to a single app. This is a more advanced feature intended for organizations. You'll need to use Apple Configurator (or a mobile device management server) to enable this feature, and it can only be disabled with the same tool. However, you need to have access to a Mac to use Apple Configurator and Single App Mode.
If you need to set up a quick and dirty kiosk, Guided Access is an okay solution. But, if you want to do this properly, you should use Single App Mode. Single App Mode is a more secure solution because no one can attempt to guess your PIN to leave Single App Mode, as they can with Guided Access. More importantly, if someone resets the iPad by pressing and holding the "Sleep/Wake" and "Home" buttons at the same time, the iPad will boot back up into the app you configured. If you used Guided Access, it would just boot back up and ask you to sign in with your PIN. The iPad would remain secure--as long as someone can't guess the PIN--but you'd have to sign in and manually enable Guided Access mode for that specific app again.
Tap "Passcode Settings" to set a PIN for guided access and choose whether or not you can exit Guided Access with Touch ID, if your iPad has a Touch ID sensor. You can use the same PIN you use to unlock the iPad or a different one.
Next, launch the app you'd like to lock your iPad to. Quickly press the "Home" button three times in a row. The Guided Access screen will appear, and you can use the options here to configure it. By default, the touch screen is enabled and the Sleep/Wake button is disabled. However, you can disable the touch screen and allow people to use the Sleep/Wake button, if you like.
Tap "Start" in the top-right corner of your screen when you're ready. While in Guided Access mode, the iPad's screen won't turn off--it'll remain on and unlocked for anyone to use it. You may want to plug the iPad in if you intend on leaving it on. You could also choose to enable the Sleep/Wake button on the Guided Access screen. This will allow anyone to turn off the iPad's screen. Anyone can turn it on and they'll be taken to the app in Guided Access mode without having to enter a PIN.
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