Dedicated Kiosk Devices

Kiosk mode works in any browser, but a barn station is usually a tablet or wall-mounted display that nobody “owns”. This guide covers naming that device so you can see it in EquineOps, keeping it awake and fullscreen, and locking the hardware down so it only runs the kiosk.

Naming a device

When you enable kiosk mode you’re asked to name the device (for example “Main barn tablet” or “Feed room display”) and optionally assign it to a stable. Naming it adds the tablet to the Kiosk Devices page and gives it an identity:

• It appears on the Kiosk Devices page (Sidebar → Settings → Kiosk Mode → Manage kiosk devices) with its online status, when it last checked in, and which app build it’s running.
• You can give it its own settings — visible pages, PIN requirement, session timeout and display size — instead of the organization-wide defaults.
• You can revoke it remotely if it goes missing.

Per-device settings

On the Kiosk Devices page, click the pencil icon next to a device and turn off Use organization defaults to customize it. A feed-room display might show only Dashboard and Programs at the Extra large display size, while the office tablet keeps everything visible at the default size.

Changes apply on the device within a few minutes (or immediately after a reload).

What a hidden section means

Hiding a section removes it from the sidebar and blocks its pages — including detail pages reached from elsewhere, such as a client opened from a horse’s owner link — and removes it from search. The server enforces the same rule, so a hidden section’s records can’t be edited from the tablet even through a form that still shows them (for example, a horse’s documents tab when Documents is hidden). Dropdowns keep working: a hidden Clients section still lets you pick a horse’s owner.

If a tap on a kiosk shows “This action isn’t available in kiosk mode”, that section is hidden for the device; change it from the Devices page or the organization’s Kiosk Mode settings.

Display size

Display size scales the whole interface — text, spacing and touch targets — for screens viewed from a distance:

It’s available both as an organization default and as a per-device override.

Revoking and resetting

• Revoke removes the device from the Devices page the next time it checks in. It stays locked in kiosk mode with the organization defaults — it never drops back into an unlocked admin account — until someone adds it again with the admin PIN.
• Reset token keeps the device record but invalidates the tablet’s link to it, so the device must be added again from its own Kiosk Mode dialog. Use this if you think the tablet’s token may have been copied.

Keeping the screen on and fullscreen

Once kiosk mode is on, EquineOps asks the browser to keep the screen awake while the page is visible, and shows a Fullscreen button in the kiosk header. For a truly hands-off setup, install it as an app:

Locking down the hardware

The steps above make EquineOps behave like a kiosk. To stop people leaving it — closing the app, opening other apps, changing settings — you also need the tablet’s own kiosk features.

Android — Fully Kiosk Browser (recommended)

Fully Kiosk Browser  is the simplest way to turn an Android tablet or a large Android touch display into a locked kiosk.

1. Install Fully Kiosk Browser from the Play Store and set the Start URL to https://app.equineops.com/kiosk.
2. Sign in to EquineOps inside Fully, enable kiosk mode and name the device.
3. In Fully’s settings:
   • Kiosk Mode → enable, set a Kiosk exit PIN (different from your EquineOps admin PIN).
   • Device Management → Keep screen on, Launch on boot.
   • Web Content → Enable Fullscreen Mode.
   • Optionally Screensaver / Motion detection to dim the screen overnight and wake it when someone walks up.
4. Fully’s Remote Admin is also useful for reloading or rebooting a tablet in another building.

Android — Chrome with screen pinning

If you’d rather not install anything: Settings → Security → App pinning (name varies by manufacturer). Launch the installed EquineOps Kiosk app, open Recents, and pin it. Unpinning requires the device PIN.

iPad — Guided Access

1. Settings → Accessibility → Guided Access → on, and set a passcode.
2. Settings → Display & Brightness → Auto-Lock → Never.
3. Open the installed EquineOps Kiosk app and triple-click the top/side button to start Guided Access.

For fleets of iPads, Apple’s Single App Mode via an MDM (Apple Business Manager + a device management tool) is the managed equivalent.

Windows / other

Chrome and Edge both support --kiosk https://app.equineops.com/kiosk as a launch flag for a full-screen locked session; pair it with the OS’s kiosk/assigned-access account.

Recommended hardware

Whatever the device, keep it on power (Wake Lock won’t stop a battery from dying), on reliable Wi-Fi, and out of direct sun and hose range.

When the Wi-Fi drops

A kiosk keeps working through a short outage. Boards, programs, task lists and the calendar show the last data they loaded, and the everyday actions — completing tasks and training entries, logging feed changes, health records and farrier visits, creating or moving calendar events — are saved on the tablet with a “Saved offline” note and sent as soon as the connection returns. A cloud badge in the header shows how many changes are waiting; tap it to retry or discard one.

Two things need a live connection: creating a new task and anything that uploads a file (photos, documents). If someone else changed the same record while the tablet was offline, that change is flagged as a conflict in the badge for you to discard rather than silently overwriting theirs.