Simple Web GUI for Omxplayer on a Raspberry Pi made in PHP
Currently in alpha but should work. If you like it please give it a upvote here: http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/27805/27119
Features
- Play/Stop videos through the browser - Also mobile browser compatible
- All hotkeys from omxplayer mapped to the webpage
- Multilanguage
- Permanent playlist - Just add folders and streams
- Search for filenames with wildcards
- Autoplay next video
- Mark of already viewed videos
Requirements
sudo apt-get install php5-cli
Run
To create a simple php webserver listening on port 4321, you can change the port to whatever you want.
php -S 0.0.0.0:4321 -t YOURPATHTOOMXWEBGUIFOLDER > /dev/null 2>&1 &
Open the page with http://IPTOYOURPI:4321
Autostart
Add the following line to crontab with sudo crontab -e to start the simple php webserver on reboot
@reboot php -S 0.0.0.0:4321 -t YOURPATHTOOMXWEBGUIFOLDER > /dev/null 2>&1 &
Troubleshooting
- Permissions for files and folders:
Make sure that the root folder and the folder "tmp", where you have installed the omxwebgui, have the rights CHMOD 777. For example you install it under
/home/pi/omxwebguithan the folder/home/pi/omxwebguiand/home/pi/omxwebgui/tmpneed chmod 777. If that does not work for try to set all files and folders to 777 but that shouldn't be necessary. - If you using a own webserver that runs under
www-dataand you have some/dev/vchiqpermission problems than you need to runsudo usermod -a -G video www-datato give thatwww-datauser the correct permissions (thx to Sergio). More information here: http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/19436/how-can-i-permanently-fix-dev-vchiq-permission-errors - If you are using a webserver maybe you need to set the owner of the files and folder to
www-dataif you have permission errors
