omxsync_install

Script to configure a Raspberry Pi with omxplayer-sync for synchronised video display.

Get and burn OS image

• Get the latest raspian image
• Get Etcher to burn it with
• Burn image to mini SD card for use in Pi

Configure Pi for wifi/ssh access

Raspbian has some built in magic to help configure sd cards directly. Mount the flashed SD card on your PC and add two files to the boot folder.

• An empty file called ssh, this will turn on sshd
• Copy the wpa_supplicant.conf file from the boot folder of this repo and update it with the ssis and psk of your local wifi.
• Determine the ip address of the pi, either by booting with a screen attatched, working on a network where the host broadcast works or other devious means.

Install local requirements

• Clone this repo locally
• Create python 3 virtualenv
• Install requirements.txt: pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Configure card build

• Create a config_local.py editing the following variables:

HOSTNAME = "hostname"
PASSWORD = "password"
USERNAME = "pivideo"
ACCESS_IP = "XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX"

Build card with Fabric script

• In a terminal window, cd to the root of this repo
• Run fab omxplayer_sync and respond y to all the questions
• Run fab make-master if the connected raspberry pi is intended to be a master node, or fab make-slave if it is inteded to be a slave node
• Run fab reboot

Other commands are available and shown using fab -l