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Android App acts as remote for custom video player based on omxplayer for raspberry pi.

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omxplayer-remote-app

An Android app that connects to customized raspberry pi device via SSH and controls custom video player based on OMXPlayer by executing some bash scripts.
Its main features:

  • Connect to the wifi network that has the Pi device.
  • Play/Pause current video, next/previous video, and increase/decrease volume.
  • Fastforward/rewind for 30secs by long press
  • Show the Playlist and select a video to play.
  • Send videos from the app to the player.
  • Remove videos from the player (remove the actual video files from the pi).
  • Show on screen notification for quick controls when the screen is off.
  • Close the Pi device.

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About the Customized Raspberry Pi image:

A jessie lite image is installed on raspberry pi 3 then the following customizations are added:

  • Install openjdk 7
  • Hiding the console log that appears on startup.
  • Auto login
  • Wifi configuration to make the pi acts as access point (make the pi create its own network)
  • Auto start of bash scripts on boot that resposnible for opening the video player.
  • Auto mount for attached usbs

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