Section VIII, Kiosk Mode

Introduction

Swarm can be used as a much lower cost, more functional replacement to the traditional helicorder by using its Kiosk Mode. In Kiosk Mode Swarm displays all of the open helicorders in full-screen mode. This make seismic monitoring as easy as a glance at the screen while still allowing the standard helicorder zooming. Of course, if you want to look at other stations or use the Wave Clipboard you can just leave Kiosk Mode. F11 toggles between Kiosk Mode and normal operation.

Because there are no menus or toolbars when in Kiosk Mode you'll have to use keyboard shortcuts to interact with the inset wave view. Or, just switch to normal mode.

Configuring Automatic Kiosk Mode

Swarm can be automatically start in Kiosk Mode by running it with the '--kiosk=[parameters]' option or through the configuration file. The value of the 'kiosk' parameter is [server name];[channel]. Example:

swarm --kiosk="localhost;BGL SHZ AK" --saveConfig=false --timeChunk=15

The data source specified has to be one of the configured data sources. See Advanced Topics, for more information about this topic.