librato/raspberry-midori

Name: raspberry-midori

Owner: Librato

Description: Use a Raspberry Pi to control TVs

Created: 2015-11-13 20:23:43.0

Updated: 2016-07-21 18:26:42.0

Pushed: 2016-07-21 18:30:02.0

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README

Rasberry Pi as TV controller

This was a Hackday project to use a Raspberry Pi to control TVs. Components:

• The meanest and leanest raspberry pi you can get. I got the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B with a 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU and 1GB RAM.
• Midori browser.
• Avahi for zeroconf / discoverablility.
• NGINX as web server.
• A python http server script.
• A tiny web page

To display a web page on the TV:

Note: You need to be on the wired network. It will not work if you are on the SolarWinds or Guest wifi networks.

• Go to <pi-hostname>.local and a form will allow you to input a URL. That will start a chromium session with that URL.
• Use terminal: curl --data "url=https://www.librato.com" <pi-hostname>.local:8000

Setup

1. Install Raspbian Jessie.
2. Launch sudo raspi-conf and
3. Expand the filesystem
4. Set time zone, language, keyboard
5. Activate SSH access
6. Change the hostname
7. Set to auto-login directly to startx
8. Clone this repo and cd into it
9. Run sudo bash install.sh
10. Disable the screensaver in the desktop UI.
11. Set the screen resolution: edit /boot/config.txt. This configuration works for me.

Extras

Cloning

When all is set and done you can clone SD cards with rpi-clone. After cloning is complete, boot up the cloned Pi and change the hostname with raspi-conf.

Remote Desktop (now included in the install script)

To access the Pi remotely via the local network use x11vnc (allows you to control the active session). This article has a script that installs it so that it boots at startup.