A MediaCenter controlled from your smartphone tested on Ubuntu / Raspbian (Raspberry Pi) and developed as a birthday gift for Benthe ;)

This project it written in Javascript using Node.js and Sails.js (a realtime MVC Framework for Node.js). To play media files it is using OMXPlayer (on Raspian) or ffplay (on Ubuntu).

• On Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install nodejs
• On Raspbian follow this instructions.

sudo npm install -g bower

sudo npm install forever -g

sudo apt-get install unclutter

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

• If you can't find this package on Ubuntu use this ppa:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:jon-severinsson/ffmpeg
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

• On Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install ttf-ubuntu-font-family

• On Raspbian:

wget http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/ubuntu-font-family-sources/ttf-ubuntu-font-family_0.80-0ubuntu6_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i ttf-ubuntu-font-family_*.deb

• Clone this repo and change directory:

git clone git@github.com:JumpLink/mediacenter.git
cd mediacenter/src

• Install server side dependencies: npm install
• Install client side dependencies: bower install

• Get movie database keys on
• TMDb Key: https://www.themoviedb.org/documentation/api
• TVDB Key: http://thetvdb.com/?tab=apiregister
• Copy the config/local.js.example to config/local.js and modify to insert the keys:

cp config/local.js.example config/local.js
[your favourite editor] config/local.js

• Be sure to be in mediacenter/src and run: node mediacenter.js
• Scan the QR-Code or type the Address in your Browser

• Install Raspbian
• Set start LXDE on boot
• Setup WiFi/Ethernet
• Set pcmanf to automount devices and but not show them on mount.
• Setup autostart
• Modify /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart to

# show all gui apps on mediacenter
export DISPLAY=:0.0
#@lxpanel --profile LXDE
# we need pcmanfm for automount devices
@pcmanfm --desktop --profile LXDE
# turn off the screen saver
#@xscreensaver -no-splash
@xset s off
# disable the power management using dpms to power the monitor down
@xset -dpms
# turn off blanking
@xset s noblank
# hide the mouse if unused
@unclutter
# remove old logs
@forever cleanlogs
# start mediacenter
@sh -c 'cd /home/pi/mediacenter/src && forever start -l mediacenter.log mediacenter.js'

• Restart mediacenter: forever restart -l mediacenter.log mediacenter.js
• Stop mediacenter: forever stop mediacenter.js
• Start mediacenter: cd /home/pi/mediacenter/src && forever start -l mediacenter.log mediacenter.js
• Print logs

forever logs

Output:

info:    Logs for running Forever processes
data:        script         logfile                    
data:    [0] mediacenter.js /home/pi/.forever/mediacenter.log

forever logs 0

Output:

[...]
data:    mediacenter.js:3601 -    Sails              <|
data:    mediacenter.js:3601 -    v0.10.0-rc8         |\
data:    mediacenter.js:3601 -                       /|.\
data:    mediacenter.js:3601 -                      / || \
data:    mediacenter.js:3601 -                    ,'  |'  \
data:    mediacenter.js:3601 -                 .-'.-==|/_--'
data:    mediacenter.js:3601 -                 `--'-------' 
data:    mediacenter.js:3601 -    __---___--___---___--___---___--___
data:    mediacenter.js:3601 -  ____---___--___---___--___---___--___-__
data:    mediacenter.js:3601 - Server lifted in `/home/pi/mediacenter/src`
data:    mediacenter.js:3601 - To see your app, visit http://localhost:1337
data:    mediacenter.js:3601 - To shut down Sails, press <CTRL> + C at any time.
[...]

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• https://github.com/mscdex/mmmagic/issues/24