Hi everyone, (or at least the loyal subscribers of this subreddit)

I am back from my trip to China and have new ideas and goals for the development of PiTV.

First of all home controlling aka 433Mhz control won't be a part of PiTV anymore. Sorry, but it's going to be a seperate system. I figured, that it's unnecessary to stuff it into this totally unrelated project.

Furthermore I will try to update some stuff, check if something broke, and make sure that I improve the API.

YouTube is back on my todo list, but a friend of mine also wants to be able to play HTTP links. So that's on the todo list too.

Best Regards y'all, Phil

In this post I'll try to list our plans for the future of PiTV throughly.

ROADMAP

• Finish Movies & Subtitles Section (90%)

• Develop a 433Mhz node module (100%)

• Add a Home Control Section (5%)

• Add a YouTube Section (0%)

• Image Release (When the Alpha is ready)

• Maybe: AirPlay-like server

The future of PiTV includes YouTube, a home control system and an Airplay server. Because that's how I imagine my future TV / Smart TV system: As the center of your home network.

VPN (Movies & Series)

I've already contacted Kebrum.com. They provide Time4Popcorn with their VPN system, and I hope they can do the same for PiTV. This will complete the Movies & Series (accompanied with some bugfixes).

UPDATES

In the next days I will make a blog for PiTV, to keep everyone updated more frequently. I think we outgrew the subreddit-only solution.

HOME CONTROL

PiTV's heart will also include a Ninja Block like home control system. We're at the time developing a 433Mhz shield for the Pi. When it's finished we will release the schematics in a seperate Git repository on our GitLab.

That's the easiest way to realize a home control system.

KICKSTARTER

We will start a kickstarter campaign to back the further development of PiTV. That includes the development of the software, the image and the 433Mhz shield.

You'll be able to receive different perks:

• A hand-signed "Thank you!"-letter

• Stickers (Maybe) [and the things above]

• A pre-imaged and ready-to-use SD card [and the things above]

• A DIY kit to build the 433Mhz shield [and the things above]

• An already assembled 433Mhz shield [and the things above w/o the DIY kit]

• A Raspberry B [and the things above w/o the DIY kit]

Stretch Goal will possibly be Raspberry B+ support!

I hope you're as excited as we are!

I released the Pre Alpha of PiTV!

Grab your copy of it here on PiTV's official eebsite: http://pitv.pw

Please make sure, that you don't run the installation script while being logged in as root.

So, after long inactivity the first update: I've got a plan!

I think that I can't update the software quickly, because of the messy code. And I believe that no one wants to send pull requests in, because nobody wants to read the messy code.

A solution: Porting the whole thing to Angular.js, thus making it more dynamic and expandable! Also I will try to refactor the SASS and split it into multiple files.

I think this is a good long term solution for the project. If anyone wants to help: PLEASE DO CONTACT ME ;)

I haven't got much time now, because of university and my job, but I will try to dedicate what I can spare :)

https://github.com/philplckthun/PiTV/issues/4

Dont:

• Run as root while installing - it will cause errors

• Have another web server running (without knowing what to do about that, personally I haven't used node.js )

Do:

• For a nice install (which I am yet to get it working) have a clean install of Raspbian

I'll update this when I play around more :)

Hi to those who still follow the development of PiTV (You're awesome),

I'm sorry to say that I haven't, as of now, found time to finish development for PiTV. I haven't even got a TV at the time to test.

Furthermore I will shut down the PiTV Git server. Don't worry. I will push the main repositories to GitHub and post the links here.

If I receive a DMCA notice (which is unlikely with such a small userbase) I will revive the Git server.

I also hope to increase user contribution through GitHub.

I won't let you down! Just two major features left! I just must get some time free for them / you ;)

Stay awesome!

PiTV 0.0.2 (Still Pre Alpha) is out!

Grab the new install scripts here and update: http://pitv.pw

Dose PiTV support the new Raspberry Pi 2 at all?

The new version is out! It is basically just the feature to turn off your display with the remote and some code cleanups after the transfer to GitHub.

How do you install addons other than whats found in the "get more" tab?

Thanks.

Thank you for your great work! I am new to Pi and PiTV. The moment I found your site on PiTV, I was driven to buy my Pi 2 right away. I have just completed PiTV installation twice on my Pi2 fresh installation of Raspbian; but without any luck to bring it up.

Here is the details of my environment

• Pi hardware – Pi 2 with 1GB RAM

• Fresh installation of Raspbian from NOOBE

• Create a new user in Raspbian

• Add the new user to sudoers file

• Login with the new user to raspbian

• Run wget command

• Run sudo sh setup.sh to install PiTV

• System reboot after installation --> kernel panic (trace started and stop at 302.######

Please help on this. Thank you in advance.

http://blog.pitv.pw/ gives me:

502 Bad Gateway

nginx/1.4.6 (Ubuntu)

ok so i just got a pi for this reason and am not new to linux but new to pi. So i have set up a new pi out of the box with raspbian and and 8GB SD card. I got it all working just fine but when i play movies they go in 2x speed and I have to pause the movies and play it again. This causes to miss some things at the start of a movie not always but it does. Is there anything that i might be doing wrong. I am only playing the 720 versions of the movies if that helps at all. And no modifications were used. I have a Raspberry Pi B+ new from newegg.

Is it possible for PITV to work if I'm using OpenELEC instead of Raspbian?

I can't get pitv to work properly. The menu and all work great, but about 10 min into a movie it just stops playback and returns to the main menu.

I can't play another movie, it just shows the loading screen.

Is there somebody that can help me with this? Thanks in advanced

Hi,

I haven't checked if this project is still in development. But it looks good so far! What would really be a killer feature is a combination of streaming content through both torrent-sources and website-sources. So it searches for content on both torrent-sites (yify, piratebay, etc.) and website-sources (like Genesis for XBMC does for example). This makes a way bigger catalogue with more working content. This combination between torrents and streaming through http-links hasn't been done before, which would make PiTV really the best.

PiTV 0.2.4 Pre Alpha

Just two small bugfixes.

Changelog:

• Fix the episodes list

• Display errors from the server as alerts on the remote

• No faulty alerts anymore which come from the server's error events

You can get your update instructions like always here: http://pitv.pw/#!gettingstarted In the "How to update"-section.

Design a logo and win one of the first 433Mhz shields for PiTV!

It's easy:

• Design a logo (maybe based on the Raspberry Logo)

• Make a monochrome version

• Post it here!

• We choose the winner and contact him!

Have fun!

Edit: End of the Contest, since someone applied is now the 14th of August!

Just wondering if a quick video of PiTV in action can be put together, just so people can get a better idea of how it looks and works so far.

The installation script now uses git for up to date installation and updating.

EDIT You don't have to reinstall anything!

I can navigate around and select a movie or TV show. A description and picture appears. When I click the play button at the bottom nothing happens. I also can't find it as a UPnP player although I'm not 100% sure if this is supposed to be a feature yet.

In the US specifically

Fresh new install, video works, however, no sound over hdmi. Tried different videos, same result. Any thoughts?