Kiosk software

[brandonh]

I have a client that wants a touch screen all-in-one setup for being a slideshow viewer. They want it locked down so that users can select between different albums and play the slideshows. Users are to have no access to anything else on the computer.

1. Does anyone here have experience with any kiosk software that they would recommend?

2. Does anyone have a photo viewing program to recommend? I am leaning towards just using Windows Media Center but am concerned about the ability to lock out other portions of WMC.

This computer will not have internet access.

Thanks!

 

[brandonh]

I thought I would give an update of what I did in case anyone else wants to do this in the future...

In short, I used SiteKiosk for my kiosk software and customized Windows Media Center with switches and registry tweaks to lock it down for viewing photos only.

http://community.mediabrowser.tv/permalinks/4971/registry-tweaks-for-media-center

I don't think I used this exact article but something very similar.

 

[ComputerRepairTech]

thanks for posting i'm sure the info will be useful to someone in the future.

 

[citizensmith]

^^^ what he said. Nice to find out how the storey ended

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

A friend of mine does programming of kiosks as part of his business. Does them for museums, tourist centers...all sorts of stuff.

He also does a lot of stuff for television, if you watch the History Channel or TNT or A&E or Velocity or Discovery channel....changes are high that you've seen his work. He does lots of animations, like Flash stuff.
His website===> http://www.mediapotions.com/

 

[bertie40]

A had a little bit of experience with site kiosk a couple of years back.

Not enough to advise though, but it did seem a pretty good configurable system.

Basically it's a shell which sits on top of the parent OS (win xp in that case), and with the proper key combinations, allows you to switch back and forth.

Ha.
Sounds like an early precursor to windows 8

 

[bluecoast]

SiteKiosk was great. i used it with a client who was deploying internet terminals at local hotels... Smartphones kind of killed that business.

SiteKiosk has a lot of features, it has a deepfreeze like mode that would let you use it as a PC but reload to a fresh state on logoff.

They had a nice online service with a dashboard. I could remotely access the terminals and push new configs, it would email about any problems it had. It would even let them know when the bill hopper was getting full. It was not cheap, but worked very well.