Gipper Touch is compatible with a variety of touchscreens when using a Windows device. In order to set up your touchscreen to display your Gipper Touch experience while using a Windows device, follow the steps below.

We would highly recommend consulting with your IT department to assist in this process! We'd also recommend having a keyboard on hand to plug into your device via USB-C, to assist with the setup. If you do not have a keyboard, you can turn on an onscreen keyboard via the accessibility window in the system settings. 

Table of Contents

• Configure Kiosk Mode
• Turn Off Sleep Settings
• Disable Edge Swiping
• Configure Auto Power On
• Sharing a Photo of your Touchscreen Setup

Configure Kiosk Mode

The fist step in displaying a Gipper Touch experience using a Windows device is to configure an account profile. This account profile allows you to open your Touch experience via the Microsoft Edge browser in a full screen kiosk experience. 

Rather watch than read? Check out the video walkthrough.

To configure Kiosk Mode:

1. Open the Start Menu > Settings > Accounts > Family & Other Users then locate the Set up a Kiosk section
2. Click "Get Started" within the Set up a Kiosk section
3. Add a name to create a Kiosk profile (ex: name it "Kiosk")
4. Select the Microsoft Edge browser as the app to be used in Kiosk Mode
5. When asked about how the kiosk will be used, select the option "as a digital sign or interactive display"
6. Set up Microsoft Edge:
   • Enter your Gipper Touch URL
   • Set the restart setting to "never restart"
7. Complete the setup process and close the workflow
8. Now there is an account on this device called “Kiosk” that can be used to launch a full screen Gipper Touch Experience
   • Note: when you are in Kiosk mode as this user, you can exit by plugging in a keyboard and typing Ctrl + Alt + Del

Turn Off Sleep Settings

To ensure your display does not turn off after periods of inactivity, you'll want to adjust the sleep/standby settings. To do so:

1. Open the system settings
2. Select System
3. Select Power
4. Click on Screen, sleep, & hibernate timeouts
5. Change all three options (listed below) to Never
   • Turn my screen off after
   • Make my device sleep after
   • Make my device hibernate after
6. Exit out of settings

Disable Edge Swiping

Disabling edge swiping will prevent users from being able to swipe from the edge of the screen to access windows notifications/settings menus, which is important to keep users limited to the Kiosk view and corresponding Touch experience.

Rather watch than read? Check out the video walkthrough.

To disable edge swiping:

1. Open the Search and type in "regedit"
2. On the “Registry Editor” app, right click and select “Run as administrator”
   • If you see a user control prompt select "Yes"
3. With Registry Editor open:
   1. Double click to open the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE folder in the left column
   2. Then proceed to open the following folders in the hierarchy
      • SOFTWARE
        • Policies
          • Microsoft
            • Windows
   3. Within the Windows folder, first check to see if there is an EdgeUI folder (would be last in the list)
      • If it does not exist
        1. Right cluck on the Windows folder, select New > Key
        2. Name the folder that is added "EdgeUI" and open it
        3. Right click on the empty area on the right column and select New > DWORD (32-bit) Value
           • Name this value AllowEdgeSwipe
           • Double click on it and set it to “0” (which should already be the default value, 0 means that edge swipe is disabled)
           • Select OK to close
      • If it does exist
        1. Right click on the empty area on the right column and select New > DWORD (32-bit) Value
           • Name this value AllowEdgeSwipe
           • Double click on it and set it to “0” (which should already be the default value, 0 means that edge swipe is disabled)
           • Select OK to close

Configure Auto Power On

In the event of a power outage or a power cable being unplugged, you want to configure your windows device to automatically power back on after power is restored. To do this, you'll typically need to adjust settings in the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System). Specifically, you'll look for options related to power management, such as "Restore on AC/Power Loss" or "After Power Loss", and set them to "Power On". 

This can vary by device, so see below for suggestions:

1. Enter the BIOS settings of the device (this can vary per device). You can do so by:
   • Shutting down the device and powering it back on
   • As the device is powering on, press the key associated with accessing the BIOS settings (on some devices this is F2, on others this can be pressing the Delete key repeatedly)
2. Once within the BIOS settings, you'll need to find the setting associated with automatically powering on the device. Again, this varies by device. The terms of these settings will be similar to below:
   • After Power Loss
   • After Power Failure
   • AC Power Loss Options
   • Restore on AC/Power Loss
3. Once you locate the setting, set it to "power on" or "always on"

You can also find device specific directions on setting up auto power on below:

• Beelink SER5 5800/EQR5 (articles for all other models are on the same website)
• ASUS NUC Mini PC

Sharing a Photo of your Touchscreen Setup

After all directions have been followed and your site has been deployed to the screen, please send a photo of your setup to support@gogipper.com for the Gipper team to review (if you already have an existing email thread with a Gipper Customer Success rep you can also send the photo there).

• Note: please still send a photo even if you're waiting on other features (wall wraps, shelves, graphics, etc.) in the surrounding area to be completed. We certainly want to see the final product when it's ready, but at this stage we primarily want to confirm the site has deployed correctly!

Examples:

Thank you for reading! If you have any questions, please contact our team by emailing support@gogipper.com or calling (929)-207-8459