digitalman2112/web-omxplayer

A web interface built on jbaiter's pyomxplayer wrapper to control omxplayer This particular variation extends KenT2's work around the the omxplayer wrapper to expose functions to a browser.

A web interface using jbaiter's pyomxplayer wrapper to control omxplayer

This particular variation is a web extension using KenT2's work around the the omxplayer wrapper

INSTALLATION

This assumes either running Arch or Debian with omxplayer installed

This was developed on archlinux-hf-2012-09-18 with python 2.7

• install pexpect by following the instructions at www.noah.org/wiki/pexpect

• pyomxplayer is currently included inline in the code as I have made some modifications to KenT2's version, the original can be seen at https://github.com/KenT2/tboplayer and https://github.com/jbaiter/pyomxplayer

• clone this repo into a directory (git clone https://github.com/millerchnz/webomxplayer.git

• in webomxplayer directory, edit config.py to set the media location, omxoptions ("-o hdmi" for hdmi or "-o local" for RCA output)

• type ./server.py from a terminal opened in webomxplayer directory

• server.py can be added as daemon to auto start on boot

OPERATION

• point a web browser at the raspberry on the port specified in the config file (8800 by default) http://:8800/

• play videos