PiControl

PiControl™ is a dashboard for managing OpenElec/Kodi based TV controllers over WebSockets.

It is designed for use with TV's operating as electronic signage, digital billboard or a digital kiosk.

We use Raspberry Pi 2 based devices as a cheap and effective controller, but you can use any OpenElec/Kodi supported hardware.

Features

• Dashboard displaying a screenshot and details of what is playing on each controller.
• Connection handling and auto-reconnect of multiple WebSocket connections.
• Refresh button - reboots the controller.
• Notify button - displays on-screen notification on controller's TV.
• Skip button - plays next item in playlist / skips the current playing item.
• Content recognition - recognises several media types including video, pictures, music and TV and returns details of what is playing.

Requirements

1. WebSockets enabled on OpenElec or Kodi controller
2. ffmpeg on web server for thumbnails/screenshots
3. PHP 5.5+
4. MySQL 5.5+ database server
5. Suitable web server, we recommend nginx
6. Browser with WebSocket support

Usage

1. Deploy to your favourite web server.
2. Deploy database using the examples/picontrol.sql data and structure file.
3. Create a credentials.php file in the www root (refer to examples/credentials.php.example).

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