Web Browser
by info-beamer.com

Play web content

This is a full featured chromium based browser runtime to show web content and optionally images/video in a scheduled playlist. The browser can also be embedded into a selection of other info-beamer packages to show web content within those packages.

Due to how the browser is integrated with the rest of the system, this package is currently limited to Pi4 and later Pi models. The Pi3 and Pi Zero 2W might work too, but dues to memory constraints the result might not work well. Get in contact if you're interested in testing this out regardless.

Unlike the older Fullscreen Browser package, this browser runs natively within info-beamer and when used as a plugin can be freely combined with other content like images or videos. It also respects the configured video mode and supports output on both HDMI displays.

Use within other packages

HD Image/Video Player V2 beta

by Florian Wesch <fw@info-beamer.com>

Displays images and videos in a rotation (Preview)

Learn more..

Have a look at this package if you want to show web content together with other images and videos.

JavaScript automation

Certain pages require custom actions after loading. Most of those can probably automated using a short JavaScript snippet that is run in the context of the page/iframe. The Script feature allows you to do just that. Have a look at

https://community.infobeamer.com/t/full-screen-browser-with-login/166

for some discussion of how all that works.

Configuration

Advanced: Transparent background

This setting allows you to select how the browser behaves if the page has no explicit background color set. If using "White if unset", the background color will be set to white if no background is set and the page would be transparent. If set to "Transparent", a transparent background will be kept.

Advanced: Loading condition

A page load is started five seconds before it is expected to be shown on the screen. If the page is ready within those five seconds, it is presented on the display. Otherwise switching to it is delayed for up to 10 seconds, while the loading process is still running. If that fails too (in case the network is down, for example), the next item will be scheduled instead.

This option allows you to specify when to consider a page as being ready to display during the loading process. If "load" is selected, the page will be considered ready once the main frame of the requested page is fully loaded.

If "draw" is selected, the page is considered ready if at least some of it has been rendered. This usually happens quite early during the load process, so the page will likely only partially rendered and resources like embedded image or other resources might not be loaded yet.

Releases

Version 134.0.6998.89

• Updated Chromium
• Fixed playback of embedded playlists

Version 131.0.6778.140

• Updated Chromium
• Added load condition selection
• Added option to allow transparent pages

Version 131.0

• Updated Chromium version to 131.

Version 130.1

• Updated Chromium version to 130.
• Reworked browser-worker to spawn single browser process ready to handle more pages and potentially share cache across multiple requests. Loading pages should be faster now.
• Added web inspector support (ssh port forward 9222, then open chrome://inspect)
• Reworked package configuration UI and included first template script.
• Support specifying browser language.
• Reload browser on config change so settings changes get immediately applied.

Version 129.2

• Shader effects need latest OS (at least version 241010)
• Added ability to also play image/video content
• Added setting fixed browser scale like FullHD, independent from screen resolution

Version 129.1

• Added more transition effects

Version 129

• Update chromium version
• Added scripting support

Version 126.3

• Added timezone support
• Hide irrelevant node settings if embedded in another package.