Default Config

[helmi1987]

Hallo

is it possible to set a default config over a script?

i mean when i will install the extension on 10 Clients with the same setting is this possible without configure this on all client manually.

[maglub]

This might be tricky, due to the security mechanism of Chrome and Chromium. What we are fighting here is that the browser is very restrictive about what it allow you to do, concerning plugins which might be malware.

I do this in a crude way, so that I can fleet manage Chromium based signage screens, running Raspbian Lite on Raspberry Pi 4:

• I start chromium on screen 1:

chromeConfigDir=screen1
/usr/bin/chromium-browser --user-data-dir=/home/dashboard/.config/'${chromeConfigDir}' --password-store=basic"

• I install the plugins that I need (i.e TabRotate)
• Set up TabRotate to look for a local json file, i.e /home/dashboard/dashboard-config.json.
• Set TabRotate to start in full screen mode
• Exit Chromium, and save that config to a tar-file to use as a template when I install a new system

cd .config
tar cvzf screen1.tar screen1

When installing a new computer I automatically install a i3 and lightdm, set up a new user, then unpack that config into the ~/.config directory of that user and starts Chromium the same way as described above, pointing out that configuration.

Whenever I need to show a new set of web pages, I just need to create a new /home/dashboard/dashboard-config.json file, and TabRotate will see that it has changed and update the screen accordingly.

If you have multiple screens, you just do it again, with different parameters.