SOFTWARE museum_video_player

OS - login

works on Buster 32 bits console on boot, logged on PI user = pi password = raspberry

Dependencies

pip install pathlib
pip install PyOSC
sudo apt-get install libdbus-1-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev -y
sudo pip install omxplayer-wrapper

How to clean the console screen

change cmdLine.txt and create a backup

logo.nologo vt.global_cursor_default=0 : remove cursor

Remove login blabla

touch ~/.hushlogin

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/[email protected]/autologin.conf

change

ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty --autologin pi --noclear %I xterm-256color

with:

ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty --skip-login --noclear --noissue --login-options "-f pi" %I $TERM

Remove secutiry ssh msg

Remove the file /etc/profile.d/sshpasswd.sh  (sshpwd.sh  for stretch)

Remove bash prompt ( now this not removed, this is a '$')

If you want to remove even the bash prompt (e.g. “pi@raspberrypi:~ $”), open .bashrc file.

nano ~/.bashrc

Then add the line below at the bottom of the file.

PS1=""

OSC message

Note that port In and Out are part of user settings

Video

/video/status/ 0 Print status player on console and callback in osc too

• WAITING = 0
• ASKPLAYING MAIN VIDEO = 1
• PLAYING MAIN VIDEO = 2
• END MAIN VIDEO = 3
• ASK PLAYING SECOND = 4
• PLAYING SECOND VIDEO = 5
• END SECOND 2D SCREEN = 6 ( 2nd screen is over, but the the 1st screen)

note that PAUSE is not a status

/video/playmain Play the main video

/video/playwait Play the secondary video. Works only if state is WAITING or PLAYING MAIN VIDEO

/video/stop Stop everything, go to waiting mode

RPI

/rpi/startx start X desktop in background

/rpi/reboot

/rpi/shutdown

APP

/app/ispi write on console is machine is considered as raspberry pi arm

/app/quitquit app

/app/test write test on console and give back OSC test message

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IMAGE museum_video_player

Disk Location

program is : /home/Document/museum_video_player/main2.py

fat32 is /media/fat32/

userSettings file has to be : /media/fat32/settings/userSettings.json

Start automatically vs manually

stop app

sudo systemctl stop museum.service

deactivate autostart

sudo systemctl disable museum.service

activate autostart

sudo systemctl enable museum.service sudo reboot

Quitting app

use OSC command /app/quit

Start mannually the app

cd /home/pi/Documents/museum_video_player

python main2.py

Test programm

Test if json is correct

python json_tester.py

Omxplayer test main.mp4 & wait.mp4 files

python omxplayer_tester.py note : sound is not configurated

Start NDI

first start desktop, using keyboard startx or /rpi/startx OSC message open a browser, then open ip_of_raspberry

Random Mode

Random mode allows you to play randomly a couple of main.mp4 / wait.mp4 What is needed ?

1. Activate random by adding new line on Json file : "random": { "nbFolder": X (where X is a number) }
2. Add X couples of main.mp4/wait.mp4 located in folder "1" , "2", "3" .... "X"
3. Check that everything is fine, user python json_tester.py
4. Double check on log when app is starting :

===== init settings ====
SETTINGS : user setting
==== playlist =====
/media/fat32/main.mp4
/media/fat32/wait.mp4
VideoPlayer RANDOM Mode activated
Set Random Folder
New Random Folder =3
 ===== OSC SERVER ====

deactivate Random mode in removing the random key inside the json folder