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Kiosk Mode

Live Monitor can be deployed as a locked-down full-screen dashboard — ideal for:

• Security desks and operator wall displays.
• Dedicated kiosks beside Face Verify devices.
• Public-facing operator screens that shouldn't expose admin controls.

Kiosk deployment combines three ingredients: hiding the application menu, locking down the settings and operator controls, and encoding the entire configuration into an encrypted URL that can be pasted onto another device to restore the exact same setup.

Hiding the Application Menu

Live Monitor can suppress the main Identities application menu entirely. When menu is hidden, only the detection grid and (optionally) a minimal header are visible.

Setting	Behavior
Enable Application Menu	Default ON. Turn OFF to hide the left / top menu and give the grid the full screen.

Re-enabling the Menu

If you turn the menu off and haven't saved a restore URL first, the only way to get back into settings is to clear the browser's local storage for the site, or paste a fresh configuration URL with enableApplicationMenu: true. Save a URL first (see below) to give yourself a recovery path.

Locking Down Controls

Pair the menu hide with the operator control toggles to produce a fully locked dashboard:

Toggle	Set to	Result
Show Settings	Off	No gear icon — the operator cannot open the filter / themes dialog.
Allow Pause / Play	Off (optional)	Removes the pause chip — the feed always flows.
Allow Create / Edit	Off (optional)	Removes inline person editing from detection cards.
Enable Application Menu	Off	Removes the main app menu entirely.
Hide Person Name / Detector Name	On (optional)	Hides names for public-facing operator screens.

The Encrypted Configuration URL

Live Monitor encodes every setting — filters, themes, operator controls, visibility toggles — into a compressed, URL-safe string and appends it to the URL as the ?clz= query parameter.

• Every time you change a setting, the URL updates automatically with the new clz value.
• Opening the page with a ?clz=... URL applies that configuration, overwriting whatever was previously saved locally.
• Opening the page with an empty ?clz= (just ?clz=) clears local settings and resets to defaults.

How to Capture a Configuration URL

1. Sign in to Live Monitor and configure the dashboard exactly how you want the kiosk to appear — filters, themes, visibility toggles, menu hidden, controls disabled.
2. Once satisfied, copy the full URL from the browser's address bar. It will look like:

   https://identities.example.com/people/liveDetections?clz=N4IgZg9gdghgtmA...

3. Save that URL somewhere safe — this is the backup of the entire dashboard configuration.

How to Deploy That Configuration to Another Device

1. On the target device, open its browser and navigate to the copied URL.
2. Live Monitor decodes the ?clz=... parameter, saves all settings to the device's local storage, and reloads with the configuration applied.
3. From that point on, the target device has the same filters, themes, and lockdown — even if you later change the URL or clear the query parameter.

Use this pattern to push one configuration to an entire fleet of kiosks in seconds.

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Browser URL bar showing the ?clz= parameter

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Resetting a Device

If a kiosk's stored configuration is broken or out of date, reset it by visiting the bare URL with an empty parameter:

https://identities.example.com/people/liveDetections?clz=

The device wipes its saved settings and returns to defaults. You can then open the management URL or paste a fresh configuration URL to bring it back online.

What's In the URL

The encoded configuration includes:

• Filters — detectors, tags, collections, visible custom fields.
• Themes — every event theme (color, icon, message, enabled, animation).
• Operator controls — pause/play allowed, max items, settings visibility, inline edit allowed.
• Visibility toggles — hide person name, hide detector name, show address, enable application menu.
• Quick actions — which tag quick-actions appear on cards.

The string is compressed with LZString before being URL-encoded, which is why a dashboard configuration fits into a single URL. It is not a secret — anyone with the URL can reproduce the configuration — so treat configuration URLs the same way you treat any link to an internal system.

Full-Screen Browser

For a production kiosk you typically pair the URL with a full-screen browser running in kiosk mode (e.g. Chrome's --kiosk flag, Microsoft Edge kiosk mode, or Fully Kiosk Browser on Android). Combined with the hidden menu and locked controls, the result is a single-purpose device that boots straight into Live Monitor and stays there.

Deployment Checklist

1. Configure the dashboard on your desk.
2. Turn off Enable Application Menu, Show Settings, and any other lockdowns.
3. Copy the URL.
4. Test that URL on a second device before deploying widely.
5. Deploy to kiosks by pasting into their kiosk browser's startup URL.

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Related

⏯️ Operator Controls

Pair these toggles with kiosk mode to fully lock down a dashboard.

View Guide →

⚙️ Face Verify Configuration

Face Verify uses the same encrypted-URL pattern to clone kiosk configurations.

View Guide →