Heritage Announcement Videoplayer

scripts and notes to support announcement video player setup on RaspberryPI at Heritage Baptist

loose notes for now, I'll cleanup when I'm done.

• Using PI Zero W, 16GB micro SD, USB and HDMI cords from AmazonBasics
• installed latest Raspbian lite
• setup ssh via usb (for initial config) via these instructions https://www.thepolyglotdeveloper.com/2016/06/connect-raspberry-pi-zero-usb-cable-ssh/
• changed the password of the pi user by running passwd
• changed hostname in /etc/hostname and in /etc/hosts (replace raspberrypi with your new hostname)
• setup wifi via these instructions https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruits-raspberry-pi-lesson-3-network-setup/setting-up-wifi-with-occidentalis. It looks like there might be an easier way to set this up without having to first setup ssh over usb. https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/57023.
• ran sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales and in the wizard chose en_US.UTF-8 and en_US.UTF-8 again. I then sudo update-locale LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LANGUAGE="en_US:en" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" to fix locale settings. (The second command might not have been necessary.)
• updated & upgraded installed packages by running sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y

going to use this as basic premise https://github.com/timatron/videolooper-raspbian adapting a service from this gist

• downloaded announcements.sh, hasher.py, sync_video.py and sample-settings.cfg to /home/pi
• renamed sample-settings.cfg to video-player-settings.cfg and added actual settings
• ran sudo apt-get -y install omxplayer
• moved announcements.sh by running sudo mv announcements.sh /etc/init.d/announcements
• made sure it was executable by running sudo chmod a+x /etc/init.d/announcements
• ran sudo touch /var/log/announcements.log
• then ran sudo chown pi:pi /var/log/announcements.log
• then ran sudo update-rc.d announcements defaults

at this point, you should be able to restart the device and have it automatically start playing the video on boot (provided you have the video in /home/pi/videos/weekly-announcements.mp4)

ran sudo apt-get install python-pip -y ran sudo pip install dropbox

set the following crontab as root by running sudo crontab -e

*/15 * * * 0 /home/pi/sync_video.py -n 2>&1 | /usr/bin/logger -t sync_video

configured timezone by running sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

ran python sync_videos.py script to set oauth token

Dropbox

I created an app, enabled more users, created a special user account for dropbox, shared with new user, used oauth token from new user on PIs.

TODO

• come up with maintenance plan
• make sure nothing is insecure in the default setup of raspbian
• setup automated update cron
• remote logging/status?