Hi,
thanks for the awesome work, is there a way to run this on a raspberry pi 3 without the resin.io?
Fullscreen webkit browser with HW accelerated CSS, WebGL, and HTML5 video on the RaspberryPi 3
@fellowgeek I think it should run fine if you run the docker image on a pi with the appropriate privileges and the correct config.txt. Have you tried and hit some issue?
Hi Petros,
I tried this on my RPi3 and it seems awesome!
Now I’d like to display WebGL on an addressable LED array but am a little lost on grabbing video data from the framebuffer.
One way to get the image headlessly is to use Xvfb like texttop does, and I think it could also work using fbdump. So far I’ve tried installing them in the dockerfile and in
/resin-wpe/base-image/meta-resin-wpe/recipes-core/images/resin-wpe-image.bb
Is installing extra software possible on this minimal container?
Hey @dsk2070 
WebGL on an addressable LED array sounds awesome, please post pictures when you’re done!
It is possible to install extra software on the wpe container but it’s a bit cumbersome. Basically you have to create a Yocto recipe, drop it in the base-image folder (check this fbcp recipe I made as a guide) and then include it in the list of installed packages.
Alternatively you can try statically compiling your program, committing to git, and COPYing it in your Dockerfile. That’s a lot messier but saves you the lengthy yocto build.
As a side note, it might be worth checking out or even modifying fbcp to output the framebuffer to your LED array. It sounds like it does a very similar function to what you want and you have the yocto recipe ready.
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I am trying to run install python and completely lost with all the Yocto stuff.
Is there a way to make the WPE browser work on something like alpine? Not that hardcore, but small enough.
Thanks for your reply a few weeks ago @petrosagg I’ll be sure to share photos of my LED stuff here when it’s done!
With resin-wpe I looked into installing extra software but didn’t get far - Yocto feels almost like a different operating system compared to regular Linux 
@MiluchOK if your question is still open then maybe try this:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/wpe-webgl
I haven’t tested it yet but it looks like a WPE WebGL viewer that could work on a RPi running Debian? Not really sure
Hi @petrosagg,
It’s awesome, the performance is really good. I can play HD videos smoothly.
But I face a challenge that I want to capture a screenshot of the display. I tried to convert raw file from /dev/fb0 but only see the black screen. I also search it but seem no luck with WPE run on top.
So how can I take a screenshot of the display screen while WPE is running?
Thanks,
@petrosagg I am also looking to run it in rasberry pi 3 without resin. I tried running it, but initially it failed saying missing vchiq. So while starting docker I added the device as follows:
docker run --rm --device=/dev/vchiq --name pi resin. Here resin, is the name of the image build.
The WPELancher seems to run fine, but nothing is showing up in the display. I have set hdmi_group=1 and hdmi_mode=4, gpu_mem_256=128 and gpu_mem_512=196 in the config.txt file.
Can you please tell me what might be that I am doing wrong?
Where you able to run without resin?
Very nice.
- Do you have to rebuild to get patches to webkit? Or is there an easier way to patch?
- Can you make this read-only as well? I have a raspbian stretch lite image that I have read-only using overlayfs.
Maybe adding this? https://github.com/cmhe/meta-readonly-rootfs-overlay
Hi everyone
I need some help with this implementation… i’m trying to build a car dashboard based on CAN BUS data, with some low level eletronics integration, serial com with an Arduino and so on…
I rly loved the performance of WPE but I’m feeling very restricted with the use of resinOS, I can not get an easy SSH access to the service running on docker and i’m having to adapt to this architecture is delaying the project a lot…
The first version of project was based on an arch linux, all integration with the CAN BUS was done and everything worked, but the fullscreen browser performance was not as smooth as this one with WPE (I tried chromium and gtk + with webkit)
Well, I’m lost and confused as to continue the project, I do not know if it is easier to try to implement WPE in a pure arch linux or to better understand the operation of the resinOS…
I need some help from you guys
Tks a lot
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hey @vincentphan, were you able to capture the screenshot from the buffer while running wpe??
thanks
I’ve found a good solution using Electron JS and the following:
// Screenshot thru SSH //
DISPLAY=":0.0" import -window root beta.png
curl --upload-file ./beta.png https://transfer.sh/beta.png
transfer.sh returns a url to download the screen grab
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very nice. can you do inertial/momentum scrolling with one finger (like iOS/Android)
Very impressive, I like it a lot. Unfortuantely it has a problem with clip-paths:
@srlevitt I guess this is not supported in the wpewebkit version used in balena-wpe. You’ll need to wait until it’s updated (I don’t have any estimate for that).
We have an experimental version that you can test: docker image imrehg/balena-wpe:raspberrypi3-6925588 but it does not update wpewebkit so I don’t think it will make any difference.
Thank you for the instruction, great tip for using transfer service. I tried but can’t make it work on WPE container.
So I made my solutions here, hope will help you guys. @blackjid
https://github.com/neural-display/tools
A shell script takes framebuffer as a screenshot output .bmp file for CPU performance without image compression and direct upload to your Dropbox.
Hello,
I’m also working on a digital signage project. I will need to run videos and HTML 5 animations there,
I’m trying to setup a docker compose with balena-wifi, wpe and a node express server to host the web app that will be running on wpe. I’m having trouble making it work… anyone has any example with that setup?
It’s basically this: https://www.balena.io/docs/learn/develop/multicontainer/ + WPE and Balena WIFI to help users connect their PI to the wifi, since I won’t know the wifi credential in advance.
Hello, where specifically are you running into trouble making it work? If you have working examples of each project individually, you can use the techniques described here to combine them: https://www.balena.io/blog/two-projects-one-device-turn-your-raspberry-pi-into-a-multitool/