Control OMXPlayer from iPhone and Apple Watch

• XCode 7.0 Beta 5
• This project uses https://github.com/willprice/python-omxplayer-wrapper to control OMXPlayer.

Install python-omxplayer-wrapper :

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
git clone https://github.com/willprice/python-omxplayer-wrapper.git
cd python-omxplayer-wrapper
sudo python setup.py install

Get the server script :

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lbalogh/OMXPlayer-Remote/master/OMXPlayerServer.py

And start it :

python OMXPlayerServer.py -a 192.168.10.109 -p 10026 -d /mnt/Downloads

-a : ip address of the Raspberry PI
-p : listening port
-d : home path when browsing from the phone

To make the server start automatically on boot, add this to ~/.config/autostart/omxplayer-remote.desktop :

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=OMXPlayer Remote autostart
Exec=/usr/bin/lxterminal -e 'python /home/pi/OMXPlayerServer.py -a 192.168.10.109 -p 10026 -d /mnt/Downloads'

Open the OMXPlayer Remote project in XCode. On the toolbar, select OMXPlayer Remote, a destination device (eg. iPhone 6), then click Play. The app should start in the simulator.

Enter the ip/port specified in the server (OMXPlayerServer.py) and click Browse to browse the content of the Pi. Click on a movie to start playing.