Dockerized raspberry pi as chromecast

Installs and configures an ssh server (openssh) and omxplayer in a docker container based on alpine, in order to transform your raspberry in a chromecast-like device.

Purpose

While there are plenty of tutorials on how to set up your raspberry pi as a raspicast compatible server, almost all that I could find involve manual configuration. This project aims to automate the deployment and configuration of your raspberry using the balena.io (formerly resin.io) platform. No keyboard or mouse needed 😉

How to run this project

If you're not familiar with balena.io, please start here: https://www.balena.io/docs/learn/welcome/introduction/

Once you have your rpi running balenaOS and configured your application:

• git clone this_repo_url && cd rpi-cast #clone this repository and change into this directory:
• git remote add balena my_balena_username@git.balena.io:my_balena_username/my_application.git #add your balena.io application git remote
• git push balena master #deploy your code to the configured device(s)

Connecting with raspicast

By default balena.io exposes all ports that your container has. Therefore use:

• the ip of the device,
• port 22
• the credentials from the Dockerfile. By default:
  • username: root
  • password: myPassword

The IP of your device you can find in the balena.io dashboard: