Is there a way to put device names on display in kiosk mode??Solved

Hey man,

If you’re working with Android devices, there’s actually a pretty neat way to do this through Hexnode’s Android Kiosk Lockdown settings.

Under Android Kiosk Lockdown > Launcher, there’s an option under Customizations called “Title”. This lets you set a custom title bar text for the kiosk screen, and the cool part is, it supports wildcards.

So in your case, just use %devicename% as the value. The kiosk screen will then display the name of each device dynamically. Works great for fleets.

Give it a shot!

Hey, I got one for Windows mate,

This might be a bit of a long shot, but if you’re dealing with Windows devices, there’s a clever workaround using Wallpaper policies.

In Hexnode, when configuring a Wallpaper policy, you can overlay device details on the wallpaper itself. One of the supported attributes is Device name.

Here’s what you can try, within the Windows Wallpaper policy, you can find the “Show device details on the wallpaper” option. This lets you display the device name on the desktop, and you can customize its position and font to ensure it’s visible but not intrusive. Once configured, apply this policy to your Windows fleet.

This wallpaper will be applied across all user accounts on the device. Once you apply a Multi App Kiosk policy, the wallpaper stays intact, and the device name remains visible on the screen.

It’s not quite the same as a kiosk label, but it definitely works in real-world setups where visual ID is important.

As I said before, it was not quite an easy route, but it helped us when we needed the visual ID to be displayed on our Windows fleet.

Hope that helps in some way!