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[SOLVED] Autologin or anonymous view access from kiosk for remote display
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Hi, I'm new to Mango but seem to be getting the hang of the system pretty well.
Right now I'm trying to set up a remote dumb display that hangs on a wall and displays the fill level of several tanks. I want it to be completely hands-off, boot on power-up, no keyboard or mouse intervention required. Just a basic display so that the guys can see the tanks at a glance.
Right now I'm trying it out with Porteus Kiosk on a laptop. Porteus Kiosk boots off a read-only filesystem, starts a browser and opens a page that is burnt into the filesystem. As such, there's no way to log in to Mango and no way to persistently store the autologin cookie.
I thought there was a way to make a view accessible to anonymous users but it is not obvious. Is there a simple way to do this?
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@rectifier said in Autologin or anonymous view access from kiosk for remote display:
I thought there was a way to make a view accessible to anonymous users but it is not obvious. Is there a simple way to do this?
There is no concept of an anonymous user in Mango. There must be a user logged in. You need to create a limited user which only has access to view pages/the data points you need then set up autologin.
You can either set the credentials for the kiosk user on the "UI Settings" page so that anyone that connects will use these credentials or you can use URL parameters, see here - https://help.infiniteautomation.com/using-auto-login/
Give the kiosk user a home page so they go straight to that page when logged in.
Developer at Radix IoT
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The URL parameters method is exactly what I was looking for and it's working perfectly. Thanks for your help!
The online documentation you linked appears to contain some information that isn't included in the local help files. I'm going to have to read through it as I just learned how Rollups actually work and why I would use them.
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@Jared-Wiltshire Sorry to re-open this thread, but with the anonymous user role introduced in v4, does it mean we should be able to define certain pages with anonymous "View Page" permission which allow access of these pages without the need of Mango login?
BR,
Ricardo
