KasperskyLab/TinyCheck

Miscellaneous issues from new user

hunky-dory opened this issue · 0 comments

Apologies if it's more helpful to break this down into individual issues, but I didn't want to flood the tracker.

For what it's worth, I thought I would collect these issues into one post as the experience of a moderately computer-literate person trying to set up Tinycheck on a Pi4B. Overall, the experience was very good and the documentation very clear, but I did encounter these friction points:

1) Installation: 'install.sh' appeared to hang indefinitely at the "Feeding your TinyCheck instance with fresh IOCs and whitelist, please wait." stage. Given that the step after this seems to be a reboot, I opted to restart the Pi and see if the installation had worked, which it appears to have done. I also ran 'update.sh' and this completed successfully. However, I can't seem to find any way to verify the installation or to force the IOCs to re-download. (A basic test with what should be an uncompromised phone generated a moderate alert for a geo-location tracker, so I assume it's working as intended, but there are no MISP instances listed in the backend, which may be normal but have left me wondering whether I should reinstall)

2) Virtual Keyboard: I set the device up in kiosk mode, as that's probably how it will end up being used, but used a mouse, keyboard and hdmi out to TV to make sure everything was working. The virtual keyboard doesn't seem to interact properly with a physical keyboard. You can use the physical keyboard to type into the text field of the keyboard, but nothing is then passed to the Wifi Password box when you click on '< enter' (pressing enter on the keyboard has no effect). In the end, clicking the password into the virtual keyboard seemed to do the trick. Additionally, the keyboard sometimes deploys (on a separate screen?) at the top of the screen. This means the x and home icons appear within the text entry box and appear as if they are functions of the keyboard rather than the tinycheck app: ie I thought x would clear the text field and home would return me to the previous screen. (Screencap here)

3) PDF reports: As per this issue, PDF reports were not generated. The fix in that thread worked, but unless you know to look for it then it seems to be an invisible failure point.