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Kiosks (wall displays)

Full-screen web kiosks on the two Nest compute nodes, each driving its attached display (DP/HDMI) via Chromium. Run as Kubernetes pods on the msp001 cluster (the Nest site). Infra/build/troubleshooting: see fritzlab skill msp001.md + the fritzlab/kiosk repo.

| Node | Pod (ns `kiosk`) | Output | Showing | |---|---|---|---| | host101 | `kiosk-host101` | card0-DP-1 (4K) | google.com (validation default) | | host102 | `kiosk-host102` | card0-DP-1 (4K) | netflix.com (validation default) | Each node drives one screen; multi-screen would need host100's GT 730 (see KIOSK-DESIGN.md). The displayed URL is the `KIOSK_URL` env per pod. **Permanent (GitOps, preferred):** edit `KIOSK_URL` in `fritzlab/apps/msp001/kiosk/kiosk/manifests/deployments.yaml` (block `kiosk-host101` or `kiosk-host102`), commit + push to `apps` main → msp001 ArgoCD syncs (~3 min poll) → pod recreates on the new page. **Temporary (now, reverts on next ArgoCD sync):** `kubectl --context msp001 set env deploy/kiosk-host101 -n kiosk KIOSK_URL=https://example.com` — pod recreates immediately; ArgoCD selfHeal puts it back to the git value, so use git for anything lasting.

kubectl --context msp001 get pods -n kiosk (want 1/1 Running). On-screen page check needs a screenshot via Chromium CDP (localhost-only) — see fritzlab msp001.md . A blank screen usually means getty@tty1 re-took DRM master (re-mask on the node) or the page is down (Chromium shows last-good frame).

Want a dashboard, photo slideshow, or Home Assistant wall panel instead of a website — just point KIOSK_URL at it (e.g. https://home.vino.network). home-assistant for HA URLs.