# leukipp/touchkio

Home Assistant Touch Panel Kiosk application for a Linux device (e.g. Raspberry Pi) with Touch Display.

Repository: https://github.com/leukipp/touchkio
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/touchkio
Homepage: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/kiosk-mode-for-raspberry-pi-with-touch-display/821196
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: home-assistant, raspberry-pi, kiosk-touchscreen
Last push: 2026-06-12T15:07:40+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 78/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 87, release rhythm 84, longevity 45
- inputs: {"age_days": 630, "days_push": 82, "days_rel": 110, "gap_med": 20, "n_releases_24m": 16}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1556, forks 86 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:03.168719+00:00)

## What it is
TouchKio is a Node.js/Electron application that displays a Home Assistant dashboard in kiosk mode on a Linux device (e.g. Raspberry Pi) with a touch display. It is packaged as a .deb file and exposes MQTT sensors and remote controls for the kiosk device such as display brightness, volume, screenshots, and system stats.

## Use cases
- display a home assistant dashboard on a raspberry pi touchscreen
- set up a wall-mounted smart home control panel in kiosk mode
- remotely control screen brightness and power of a kiosk display via mqtt
- monitor cpu, memory, and temperature of a kiosk device from home assistant
- replace a fullscreen browser kiosk that has touch and wake-up issues on linux

## When to choose
- you run Home Assistant and want a dedicated touch panel on a Raspberry Pi or other Linux device
- you want MQTT-based sensors and remote control of the kiosk device
- you need a beginner-friendly .deb packaged kiosk with credential persistence and touch optimizations

## When to avoid
- you need a kiosk for non-Home-Assistant websites only
- your device is not Linux-based (e.g. Android tablet or Windows panel)
- you cannot run Electron or lack a Debian-based system for the .deb package

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: gui, monitoring, iot
- domain: self-hosted, iot, operating-systems
- platform: iot
- tags: home-assistant, kiosk-mode, touch-display, mqtt-sensors, smart-home-dashboard, raspberry-pi, linux, electron, nodejs

## Member repositories
- leukipp/touchkio (main) score 78

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:03.168719+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:29:59.206876+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/leukipp/touchkio (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:03.168719+00:00, sha e18812f9e2f9)
  - homepage: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/kiosk-mode-for-raspberry-pi-with-touch-display/821196 (fetched 2026-08-29T11:30:14.038190+00:00, sha 8dc5c2817a8c)
  - site_page: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/installing-home-assistant-on-raspberry-pi-with-touchscreen-kiosk-mode/501957/4 (fetched 2026-08-29T11:30:14.041213+00:00, sha 66c9b46c36ac)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.