This project is designed to provide a mechanism for playing groups of video files (a directory of files) in sequence (a playlist) using Python and OMXPlayer. It is meant to be used on a Raspberry PI running Debian Linux.
Also provided is the ability to use systemd to auto-boot the playlist and install/uninstall scripts to make the setup easy.
A secondary intention of this project is to provide a simple example of how to setup a Raspberry PI for use as a simple service provider (a video player). The files contained in this repo should be easy enough to modify in order to create any other type of service (e.g. DHCP server, MongoDB, APACHE web server).
This project used systemd to start omxPlaylist.py at startup. However, if the install script is not used, omxPlaylist.py can be run directly with:
python3 omxPlaylist.py [video_dir]
To install, run:
chmod u+x install.sh
sudo ./install.sh
To uninstall, run:
chmod u+x install.sh
sudo ./uninstall.sh
Importantly, the omxPlaylist.service (systemd service which runs the script at boot) is hardcoded to use the /media/omxPlaylist directory as the source for video files. Videos can be copied or symlinked to this directory to play. Alternatively, systemd/omxPlaylist.service can be modified, replacing:
/media/omxPlaylist
with whichever directory you wish to have your videos. Then, re-run the install.sh script.
Note: For both install.sh and uninstall.sh, the chmod command is only required once.