Casting like Chromecast - Works with all youtube-dl supported websites: http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html (ABC, NBC, CBS, YouTube, etc...)

Built in Channels like Roku - Bypass geo-restricted channels like BBC, iTV, ABC iView, SBS On Demand

Headless setup (No keyboard or mouse required to setup your streaming device) you can simply plug it in your TV and a use the on-screen configuration guide to setup.

Royalbox Remote App for iOS allows to stream any video you can watch on you iOS device to your Royalbox TV (Android version does not have this feature yet)

You can get a preloaded 16GB microSD card to plug into your own Raspberry Pi that you already own or even get pre-configured Raspberry Pi A+ with a preloaded 16GB microSD card (also includes an HDMI cable, power supply, setup instructions) from me. Either of those would be a great help in continuing work on this project.

Pre-configured MicroSD Card Pre-configure Raspoberry PiA+

• Raspberry Pi A+, B+, ZeroW with at least 16Gb SD card running Raspbian. ZeroW is not recommended.
• Wifi connection.
• Television plugged into Raspberry Pi.
• Computer, tablet or smartphone for controlling server.
• Use the companion iOS app to Stream to Royalbox from iOS Device (optional)

The project is built on 3 other projects from Github and some additional customization for the purpose of creating the Royalbox.

Streaming Engine - https://github.com/blissland/blissflixx NOTE: Not all the channels from Blissflixx were not added.

Wifi Configuration - https://github.com/billz/raspap-webgui This is used for the headless setup. No need to have a keyboard or mouse. You will connect to the Royalbox Ad-hock wireless network and setup your wifi connection

Chrome Extension & Android app - https://github.com/vincelwt/RaspberryCast This code was used to add similar functionality to able to send youtube-dl supported web pages to your Royalbox to stream

TV SETUP and DASHBOARD

TABLET/COMPUTER/MOBILE SETUP SCREEN

CASTING TO TV MOBILE

CASTING TO TV CHROME

EASY OPTION You can download and copy the image to your own SD card using the following steps

Download the image here

Step 1. Insert the SD Card to be Restored Insert a blank (or used and nuked) SD card into the SD card reader on your Mac.

Step 2. Locate the SD Card to be Restored Open Terminal and locate your SD Card, noting that the number may be different to that previously used, using the command:

diskutil list

Step 3. Unmount the SD Card In Terminal, enter the following command:

diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2

Step 3. Format the SD Card When you have identified your SD Card, enter the following command to format it as FAT16, in my case it’s /dev/disk2. Amend this as required for your circumstances:

sudo newfs_msdos -F 16 /dev/disk2

Step 4. Restore from a Cloned Disc Image Locate the disc image, dmg, that you previously cloned. My example assumes that the dmg is on the Desktop. In Terminal, enter the following command ensuring that you identify the correct destination disc, in my example it’s /dev/disk2.

sudo dd if=~/Desktop/Royalbox.img of=/dev/disk2

Put the microSD into your Raspberry Pi with a keyboard attached. When you get to the headless setup screen it the "options" (between the ctrl and alt keys) and that will bring up the startup menu, use the arrows keys to open up a Terminal window. Now on the termianl window expand the file system

sudo raspi-config

and expand the file system in the Advanced Option to get your full 16 GB back. Now reboot and your Pi is ready to start streaming.

MANUAL DO IT YOURSELF* NOTE: This process modifies the filesystem and therefore should be used at own risk.

This repository has the full directory structure and files that were replaced/modified to build this device. You will need to build this project once and then you can create and image of your Raspberry Pi and/or buy a SD card duplicator to sell your own SD cards or build your CPU's.

Login into your Raspberry Pi

1. Clone the project

pi@raspberrypi:~$ cd Downloads
pi@raspberrypi:~$ git clone https://github.com/omody/Royalbox.git

2. Move the home directory and replace your current home pi directory

pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo mv ~/Downloads/home/* ~/home/.

3. Now configure blissflixx

pi@raspberrypi:~$ cd ~/blissflixx
pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo chmod +x configure.sh
pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo ./configure.sh

This will take about 20 mins to rebuild on a Pi B+.

4. Now lets do the headless setup, accept all the default suggestion

pi@raspberrypi:~$ wget -q https://git.io/voEUQ -O /tmp/raspap && bash /tmp/raspap

5. Now lets replace the headless configuration software that comes with our own custom one

pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo mv /var/www/html /var/www/html_old
pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo cp -r ~/Downloads/var/www /var/.
pi@raspberrypi:~$ chmod -R www-data:www-data /var/www
pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo chown www-data:www-data /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo chmod 777 /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo chmod +x /home/pi/rpi-hdmi.sh
pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo chmod +x /home/pi/scripts/startup.sh
pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo chmod +x /home/pi/scripts/connect_to_wifi_royalbox.sh
pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo chmod +x /home/pi/scripts/dhcp_rebooter.sh
pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo chmod +x /home/pi/scripts/start_bliss.sh
pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo chmod +x /home/pi/scripts/nightly_reboot.sh

6. Now lets configure the interfaces, webservers, cronjob and sudoer's to finish this up

pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo cp -r ~/Downloads/etc /
pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo cp -r ~/Downloads/boot /
pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo cp -r ~/Downloads/usr /
pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo visudo

Add the following lines to the end

www-data ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/home/pi/scripts/connect_to_wifi_royalbox.sh
www-data ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/home/pi/scripts/wifi_rebooter.sh
www-data ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/home/pi/scripts/dhcp_rebooter.sh
www-data ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/bin/cat /etc/hostname
www-data ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /bin/bash, /sbin/iwlist, /usr/bin/timedatectl, /usr/bin/tvservice, /sbin/fping, /sbin/ifconfig

You can make modification using this reference https://scribles.net/customizing-boot-up-screen-on-raspberry-pi/

I did the following: Now get rid of the rainbow logo

pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo vi /boot/cmdline.txt

Add the end of the file put a space and add:

quiet splash plymouth.ignore-serial-consoles logo.nologo

Here are brief explanations. ‘splash’ : enables splash image ‘quiet’ : disable boot message texts ‘plymouth.ignore-serial-consoles’ : not sure about this but seems it’s required when use Plymouth. ‘logo.nologo’ : removes Raspberry Pi logo in top left corner.

Note : Some might be there by default, but make sure if those exist.

Now lets add the cronjob for startup and make sure the system restarts processes if something crashes

pi@raspberrypi:~$ crontab < ~/Downloads/home/pi/setup_cronjobs.txt

Or you add them manually

*/3 * * * * /home/pi/scripts/wifi_rebooter.sh
*/10 * * * * /home/pi/scripts/dhcp_rebooter.sh
0 3 * * * /home/pi/scripts/nightly_reboot.sh
0/5 * * * * /home/pi/scripts/start_bliss.sh
0/15 * * * * /home/pi/scripts/startup.sh
@reboot /home/pi/scripts/dhcp_rebooter.sh
@reboot /home/pi/scripts/start_bliss.sh

Now reboot and if everything goes smoothly you can proceed with a headless setup for your Raspberry Pi (Royalbox).