YouTuPi

YouTuPi lets you play local and YouTube videos in your Raspberry Pi using a (mobile) web interface. It provides a web UI for Omxplayer (the raspbian media player). It has three modules:

• Local file search and browse for available media in the filesystem
• Youtube support thanks to pafy
• Paste video URL from anywhere

Screenshots

Manual installation

1. Install dependencies:

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install -y libpcre3 fonts-freefont-ttf omxplayer python-pip python-magic python-dbus git
   sudo pip install web.py beautifulsoup4 youtube_dl betterprint

2. Clone repository:

   YOUTUPI_HOME=/home/pi/youtupi
   git clone git://github.com/kktuax/youtupi.git $YOUTUPI_HOME
   cd $YOUTUPI_HOME
   cp youtupi.conf.example youtupi.conf
   git submodule init
   git submodule update

3. Register service:

   sudo cp $YOUTUPI_HOME/service/youtupi /etc/init.d/
   sudo update-rc.d youtupi defaults

Note: If you want to run youtupi under a different user than pi or from a different directory, you'll need to modify /etc/init.d/youtupi before starting it.

Scripted installation

cd ~
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kktuax/youtupi/master/service/install.sh -o youtupi-install.sh
cat youtupi-install.sh         # well, you need to check whether this shell script from the net is clean.
chmod +x youtupi-install.sh
sudo ./youtupi-install.sh

Note: If you want to run youtupi under a different user than pi or from a different directory than /home/pi/youtupi/, you'll need to modify youtupi-install.sh after downloading and /etc/init.d/youtupi after installing.

Use YouTuPi

• Start youtupi

  sudo /etc/init.d/youtupi start
  

• Grab your Tablet/Phone/PC and go to: http://192.168.1.2:8080 (replace 192.168.1.2 with your Raspberry Pi address).

• Enjoy!

Debug YouTuPi

• Don't start the service (or stop it), then cd into /home/pi/youtupi and run it from the command line:

  sudo /etc/init.d/youtupi stop
  cd /home/pi/youtupi
  python youtupi.py
  

• Grab your Tablet/Phone/PC and go to: http://192.168.1.2:8080 (replace 192.168.1.2 with your Raspberry Pi address).

This'll give you all the debug messages on the command line. Add more by adding print/pprint statements to the code.

Configuration file

You can customize the download folder and some other parameters in the JSON configuration file

nano ~/youtupi/youtupi.conf

{
    "port": 8888,
    "local-folders": [
        "~/Media", "~/Downloads"
    ],
    "download-folder": "~/Downloads"
}

Problems?

Try updating, or installing again a newer version

sudo /etc/init.d/youtupi update

Still no luck? Raise an issue