A Raspberry Pi distribution to display webpages in full screen. It includes LanternFlyTV Cloud Browser out of the box and the scripts necessary to load it at boot. This repository contains the source script to generate the distribution out of an existing Raspbian distro image.

LanternFlyTVOS is a derivative of FullPageOS and joined the distros that use CustomPiOS.

• Trying to get the LanterFlyTV Cloud Browser to run on the x server
• Build process on Github Actions is now working
• Announcements once I have a working version. Let's hope it's this one

Take a look at the actions section.

Very early versions. Please be patient.

1. Unzip the image and install it to an SD card like any other Raspberry Pi image
2. Configure your WiFi by editing LanternFlyTVOS-wpa-supplicant.txt on the first partition of the flashed card when using it like a flash drive
3. Boot the Pi from the SD card
4. Log into your Pi via SSH (it is located at LanternFlyTVOS.local if your computer supports bonjour or the IP address assigned by your router), default username is "pi", default password is "raspberry" and change the password using the passwd command. Consider also changing the vnc password as well by x11vnc -storepasswd.

• Raspberry Pi 4 and newer or device running Armbian. Older Raspberry Pis are not currently supported.
• SD card, 4GB or larger, Class 10.
• 2A power supply

• Ships with LanternFlyTV Cloud Browser
• Loads LanternFlyTV Browser at boot in full screen
• Onboarding info is displayed in the browser when it's first connected to the network
• URLs are rotated according to a schedule from a list of URLs in the cloud database
• Define wifi settings in a config file
• Ships with preconfigured X11VNC, for remote connection (password 'raspberry')
• Specify a custom Splashscreen that gets displayed in the booting process instead of Kernel messages/text

The easiest way to have a working build system is using Github Actions.

This also conserves resources on your local machine.

• Fork the repo
• Clone to a workstation
• Create a feature branch
• Push
• Create Pull request
• Approve Pull request
• Automatic build should start
• Download the image from the actions tab

1. qemu-arm-static
2. CustomPiOS
3. Downloaded Raspbian image.
4. root privileges for chroot
5. Bash
6. realpath
7. sudo (the script itself calls it, running as root without sudo won't work)
8. jq (part of CustomPiOS dependencies)

LanternFlyTVOS can be built from Debian, Ubuntu, Raspbian, or even LanternFlyTVOS. Build requires about 2.5 GB of free space available. You can build it by issuing the following commands:

sudo apt install coreutils p7zip-full qemu-user-static

git clone https://github.com/guysoft/CustomPiOS.git
git clone https://github.com/tailorvj/LanternFlyTVOS.git
cd LanternFlyTVOS/src/image
wget -c --trust-server-names 'https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_lite_armhf_latest'
cd ..
../../CustomPiOS/src/update-custompios-paths
sudo modprobe loop
sudo bash -x ./build_dist

LanternFlyTVOS supports building variants, which are builds with changes from the main release build. An example and other variants are available in the folder src/variants/example.

To build a variant use:

sudo bash -x ./build_dist [Variant]

See Building with docker entry in wiki

There is a vagrant machine configuration to let build LanternFlyTVOS in case your build environment behaves differently. Unless you do extra configuration, vagrant must run as root to have nfs folder sync working.

Make sure you have a version of vagrant later than 1.9!

If you are using older versions of Ubuntu/Debian and not using apt-get from the download page.

To use it:

sudo apt-get install vagrant nfs-kernel-server virtualbox
sudo vagrant plugin install vagrant-nfs_guest
sudo modprobe nfs
cd LanternFlyTVOS/src/vagrant
sudo vagrant up

After provisioning the machine, it's also possible to run a nightly build which updates from devel using:

cd LanternFlyTVOS/src/vagrant
run_vagrant_build.sh

To build a variant on the machine simply run:

cd LanternFlyTVOS/src/vagrant
run_vagrant_build.sh [Variant]

1. If needed, override existing config settings by creating a new file src/config.local. You can override all settings found in src/config. If you need to override the path to the Raspbian image to use for building OctoPi, override the path to be used in ZIP_IMG. By default, the most recent file matching *-raspbian.zip found in src/image will be used.
2. Run src/build_dist as root.
3. The final image will be created in src/workspace

Remote GUI access can be achieved through VNC Viewer. Get the IP of your raspberry hostname -I via SSH.

The password is raspberry and is independent of password you have set for your user(s). Change the password by x11vnc -storepasswd via SSH.

Code contribution would be appreciated!

LanternFlyTVOS is licensed under the GPL v3.0 license. See the LICENSE file for details.

LanternFlyTVOS Copyright (C) 2024. All rights reserved to Asaf Pri Hadash tailorvj.com This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details see the LICENSE file.