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🎉 ViewTouch Wiki — Welcome

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💡 Important GitHub GUI tip: Click on those three dots at right, then select 'Insights', then select 'Network'.

🌟 What is ViewTouch?

In 1986, ViewTouch® was the world's first restaurant point of sale (PoS) solution on the Atari ST. Today, ViewTouch is based on Debian Linux and The X Window System. ViewTouch runs on the popular Raspberry Pi computers. The official ViewTouch computer is the ViewTouch/Chipsee all-in-one Raspberry Pi touchscreen computer.

🎨 Concept

ViewTouch is a Point of Sale Window Manager for Linux with an integrated Graphical Toolkit that allows anyone to build a touchscreen interface — a complete hospitality point of sale and workgroup solution with their own unique menu and table layout.

  • 📺 Standard graphical resolution: Full High Definition (1920×1080)
  • 🎯 Unique interfaces: Each user interface is unique and must be completed by the end user
  • 🛠️ Toolkit approach: This is achieved using the integrated Graphical Toolkit

🚀 Toolkit Access

  1. Log in as user: Editor
  2. Toggle Edit Mode with the F1 key

🖥️ Prebuilt Raspberry Pi Image

The Raspberry Pi image used in the ViewTouch Chipsee computer is available for download: Download ViewTouch Image

📦 What's Included

  • 🖼️ ViewTouch Point of Sale desktop (screenshot)
  • 📜 Script-based icons
  • ⚙️ Customized /boot/config.txt file
  • 🔗 Links to various useful userland packages (explained in the Desktop section of the wiki)

Everything you need, literally at your fingertips! ✨

🛠️ Setup Instructions

  • Decompression requires: dtrx, Xarchiver, or xzstd
  • Writing the image can be handled by:

🔄 Update to Latest Source

There is an icon (a blue sphere 🔵) on the ViewTouch RPi desktop which runs a bash script called pull.sh to download, compile, link, and install the most recent source code available on GitHub.

🌐 Networked Displays

ViewTouch makes extensive use of the network transparency of the X Window System to drive multiple 'remote' graphical input displays by leveraging the secure (SSH) remote display capabilities of X. The Raspberry Pi Zero W adequately drives a touchscreen as remote graphical terminals.

🔐 Credentials

The default logon ID for Editor is: 123456789

⚠️ This logon ID can be changed for security.

📞 Support and Training

Restaurateurs wishing training and 24/7 support should contact Gene through the information at: ViewTouch Contact

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