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I have Chrome running in kiosk mode (it displays my HTML/CSS/JS application - so I have control over the whole stack).

From time to time, I need to refresh its static content, that is reload the HTML, JS and CSS files. This is equivalent to pressing Shift-F5.

The problem is that this is an installation without a keyboard/mouse so I currently reboot the machine (a Raspberry Pi) to "refresh" the display and would like to use a less intrusive method.

Is there a way to send Chrome a signal from the command line so that it refreshes the page?

Notes:

  • Ultimately I can use a Refresh header but would like to avoid as much as possible (I prefer in that case to reboot the machine)

  • The RPi starts xinit in rc.local, which in turns (after some other commands) starts Chrome (and hangs) so I cannot just restart the browser.

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  • Why avoid the refresh header? That is the obvious solution. If you want to be fancy, take a look at how drudgereport does it - after every refresh you end up back in the same
    where you were before the refresh.
     – SDsolar Jan 05 '17 at 21:03
  • Can you kill chrome remotely and restart it? What about changing your code so it refreshes itself after 15 minutes past a counter? – Sun Jan 05 '17 at 22:31

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