Application to turn your Raspberry Pi into a dedicated looping video playback device, good for art installations, information displays, or just playing cat videos all day.
Video_looper guide: https://learn.adafruit.com/raspberry-pi-video-looper?view=all
Configuration of Pi: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/
Local time and keyboard-layout can be changed using the following code
sudo raspi-config
Use the following to set date and time, if it does not automatically (often because of no internet connection)
sudo date -s "23 May 2018 10:30:00"
Update and clone repository
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install -y git
git clone https://github.com/itblf/pi_video_looper.git
Install, requires internet
cd pi_video_looper
sudo ./install.sh
Program should automatically start loading video-files from USB.
Stop/start looper from SSH
sudo supervisorctl stop video_looper
To disable it entirely to not start on boot
cd pi_video_looper
sudo ./disable.sh
To enable again, simply run install script
sudo ./install.sh
In file: Adafruit_Video_Looper/video_looper.py change the variables on line 71-72
_START_TIME = "08:00"
_END_TIME = "20:00"
Reinstall may be necessary after changing the times.
Logs and standard error output can be seen with the following:
sudo supervisorctl tail -f video_looper
sudo supervisorctl tail -f video_looper stderr
To utilize remote acces use https://remot3.it