RemotePi -- Raspberry Pi Media Centre

DESCRIPTION

Use your Raspberry Pi as a media centre. With a twist.

Control it with any smartphone, tablet or computer on your LAN.

Browse your music/videos, internet radio stations or YouTube, and manage your playlist.

COMPONENTS

	UI runs in any browser, single page web app with tabs playlist file browsing internet radio stations YouTube
	LAN - Ethernet/WiFi
	Backend components Apache2 + mod_fcgid REST API rpi.fm youtube-dl omxd omxplayer

ABSENT FEATURES AND COMPONENTS

• No MP3 tags. They are evil. Just directories and files.
• No GUI stack needed on the Raspberry Pi. Just a web server.
• No keyboard/mouse access needed to the Raspberry Pi.
• No TV needed for control. It's just for videos.
• No fancy protocols. Just mount the file-system with your media files.
• No Android/iOS/Windows/Linux clients. Just a web-app.

INSTALLATION ON RASPBIAN

Do all operations below as root.

Create the file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/subogero.list with the following contents:

deb http://linux.subogero.com/deb/ /

apt-get update
apt-get install remotepi

This will install all dependencies as well and print the site URL at the end.