mqtt-omxplayer

Control your Raspberry PI OMX media player via MQTT messages.

Usage

The script offers some simple parameters which are used to build the connection URL and the identification of your player.

node index.js host=192.168.1.1 username=myUser password=myPass namespace=myNamespace playerId=myPlayer

MQTT messages

play-video topic: myNamespace/mqtt-media-player/myPlayer/play-video payload: http://www.example.com/test.mp4

play-audio topic: myNamespace/mqtt-media-player/myPlayer/play-audio payload: http://www.example.com/test.mp3

stop-video or stop-audio topic: myNamespace/mqtt-media-player/myPlayer/stop-video payload: empty

volume-up or volume-down topic: myNamespace/mqtt-media-player/myPlayer/volume-up payload: empty

Setup

Download / Clone GIT Repo

git clone https://github.com/Sherlock-GmbH/mqtt-omxplayer.git

Install dependencies

npm install

Start script

npm start

If you get the following error:

Error: failed to open vchiq instance

just do the following.

chmod a+rw /dev/vchiq

References

https://github.com/elalemanyo/raspberry-pi-kiosk-screen