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Re:Use Raspberry Pi as Airplay server to screen mirror on TV... by sneak on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @03:04AM (#28836891)
Chromecasts used to have a free kiosk mode that could boot up to a full screen webpage, then Google gated it behind a monthly device management fee. :(

It was cool because you didn't even need another device to run the browser, everything ran on the chromebit/chromebox.

Re:Use Raspberry Pi as Airplay server to screen mirror on TV... by mehalter on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @07:31AM (#28838474)
If you want something that is more of a static kiosk setup, there is a different Balena supported project that supports more of this style use case. Without the need of casting or connecting with Airplay

https://github.com/balenalabs/balena-dash

Re:Use Raspberry Pi as Airplay server to screen mirror on TV... by sneak on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @09:20AM (#28839289)
I'll never touch Balena anything since they put phone-home in Etcher (a simple tool for writing a local file to a local flash blockdev, essentially just a GUI front end to dd). I can't spend the time to audit their software for spying, and they already burned up whatever default level of trustworthiness they had.

They've been baleeted.

Re:Use Raspberry Pi as Airplay server to screen mirror on TV... by voakbasda on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @10:41AM (#28840295)
Wow. Glad I didn’t take a job with them. That’s despicable.

I’ll also be warning my embedded customers that consider their offering.

Telemetry is NOT okay.

Re:Use Raspberry Pi as Airplay server to screen mirror on TV... by sneak on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @10:55AM (#28840513)
The funniest bit was the ad for pi-hole (adblocking software) displayed in the flashing tool.
Re:Use Raspberry Pi as Airplay server to screen mirror on TV... by sneak on Friday October 15, 2021 @05:15AM (#28875823)
Correction: the first word should read Chromebits/Chromeboxes, not Chromecasts.
Re:Use Raspberry Pi as Airplay server to screen mirror on TV... by automato on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @08:11AM (#28838742)
you ALWAYS need another pi ;)