Play media from your computer on a Raspberry Pi.
Play media from your computer on a Raspberry Pi hooked up to a TV.
Some people have a raspberry pi (or other small ARM computer) plugged into a
TV or big screen of some kind. It can be useful to play videos or youtube videos
on it sometimes. picast
is a command line tool for sending local media or
youtube urls to the pi's screen.
$ npm install --global picast
$ picast --serve
Make sure omxplayer
is installed.
On the same local network as the Pi, run
$ npm install --global picast
$ picast media.mp4
It will find the Pi and instruct it to stream the media from the local machine.
You can control the omxplayer
instance from stdin in this terminal.
picast --serve
Run a picast server. Prints its IP address and port to stdout.
picast [-h HOST] FILE
Play a local file on the pi. Optionally specify the IP address. Defaults to
10.0.0.32 otherwise.
picast [-h HOST] URL
Play the video at URL. This uses the external program youtube-dl to try and
find and play any embedded video on the website. Requires youtube-dl be
installed on the pi.
If you replace media.mp4
above with a YouTube URL (or anything
youtube-dl can play), it will stream it on
the pi. Requires youtube-dl
be installed on the pi.
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