MBTA Dashboard - Kiosk Mode

Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

MBTA Dashboard - Kiosk Mode#

What Was Established#

The MBTA dashboard runs as a 24/7 kiosk display on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ using Anthias (formerly Screenly OSE) in Docker. The display is portrait 1080x1920. The Pi has severe memory constraints (788MB total) requiring aggressive optimization.

Anthias Deployment#

Hardware#

Device: Raspberry Pi 3B+ (788MB RAM)
Display: 1080x1920 portrait screen
Software: Anthias (Docker-based digital signage)

Display Configuration#

Dashboard page set as primary asset
Splash page appears for 1 minute every 11 hours 59 minutes as a refresh cycle
Page refreshes via cron job to prevent memory leaks

Cron Refresh#

# Refresh the kiosk page periodically to clear memory
0 */6 * * * docker restart screenly-anthias-viewer-1

Qt WebEngine Quirks#

Anthias uses Qt WebEngine for rendering, which differs from desktop Chrome:

Qt-Webengine on homelab