I dd the sd card with raspbian. I go throught the initial setup displayed at the first boot (like setting the password etc). Boot into raspbian open up a terminal and follow the instructions to install pitv. Reboot. Connect from my phone, try a movie, loads for awhile and disconects! (Displays the "connect to ip 192.168...." message). Am i missing something? I really want this to work!!

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.

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.

I've got PiTV working on my B+ just fine, but if I start everything up and then SSH in and use

cd /etc/openvpn
sudo openvpn PIAFile.ovpn

(Where I have set a password file in the ovpn pointing to a plain text file with my username and password) then it seems to connect OK, but then my shell session hangs and I can't connect to the RPi anymore, either through port 80 or SSH (even pinging it doesn't work).
If I refresh the interface using a keyboard plugged into the Pi the screen changes from "Go to 192.168.1.80" to "Go to pitv.local", and neither pitv or pitv.local resolve on the network. I'm guessing OpenVPN is screwing up incoming connections somehow. Any ideas on how to resolve this?

Can this thread be for features/suggestions?

If so, I have a few :)

I update the setup.sh to update the omxcontrol node module during installation.

You don't have to reinstall! Instead you can use the following commands:

sudo apt-get install git -y
cd /home/pi/pitv/node_modules
rm -rf omxcontrol
git clone https://github.com/dplesca/omxcontrol.git

Then restart the Pi.

It shows the pi logo with the browser pointing at 127.0.0.1/tv and i can't do much. refresh the page and stuff like that but can't access any menu.

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.

It would be great to be able to overclock the pi. I've tried 1Channel in the past and it's painfully slow! Still working on loading Raspbian so I can try this. Worked on the install for a while last night and can't seem to log in to Raspbian to even begin to install.

User: pi

Password: raspberry / raspbian / FUCKYOUMACHINE!!!

Incorrect login Repeat...

It works well here. For a Pre-Alpha release it seems to be really awesome! Great work! =)

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 :)

In order for me to keep using this I need a VPN, and unfortunately I am not tech savvy enough to do it on my own.

port 80 isn't opening, and I can't "can't access 127.0.0.1" I don't know what to look for but it seems node is up pi@pitv ~ $ ps -ef | grep node root 2208 1 25 11:40 ? 00:01:15 /usr/local/bin/node /usr/local/lib/node_modules/forever/bin/monitor main.js root 2214 2208 7 11:40 ? 00:00:20 /usr/local/bin/node /home/pi/pitv/main.js

are there any logs or something I can look at ?

After installing PiTV my Pi boots straight into PiTV. Any way to get it to boot into Raspbian again? Or unintstall PiTV?

Thanks!

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

Thanks.

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

For an example of a more decentralized way of doing things, you can take a look at the BitTorrent bundle for Plex by Sharkone. It's really good. It's kinda like xbmctorrent, but with the use of metadata from the movie database. It searches for links from Yify, eztv, thepiratebay and kickass. It would be great if in the future PiTV will feature something similar. This will result in more content and an higher quality of content.

Keep up the good work!

https://github.com/sharkone/BitTorrent.bundle

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 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!

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.