I have another project that does exactly the same thing and has 0 dependencies, you just download it and run it. It's written in go and you can find it here.
omxremote is a little node.js powered app for controling omxplayer from your iOS or Android device (or even your normal browser). It uses a few node modules like: express for some simple routing, simpleomxcontrol for interfacing with the omxplayer. The front-end is written using the awesome react library.
- install nodejs
- clone repo and run
npm install - run it with adding your media path as a command line param:
node app.js -p /media/videos - point your Android/iOS device's browser to:
http://pi's ip:31415/and choose the file you want to play - (optionally) add the link from above to your Android/iOS home screen, you can find it fast and use it without entering the weird ip:port address over and over; there's even an app icon included