Mediaplayer setup

Hardware

• RPi 4
• hifiberry DAC+ Light Sound/audio card hat

Setup

• Flash raspberry pi OS using rpi-imager (use stored config settings for user, hostname, locale, wifi setup etc.)
• If not using rpi-imager configure manually:
  • Set hostname
    • Using hostnamectl (~/Howtos/systemd/hostnamectl.md)
    • or via Settings/Screen configuration menu entry
  • sudo raspi-conifg
    • Interface options
      • enable ssh

Hifiberry

Not needed because the mediaplayer uses audio via HDMI

• Hifiberry config docs
• Add dtoverlay=hifiberry-dac to /boot/config.txt

Etc

• Finish setup wizard

  • Display Options
    • Disable screen blankking
  • Performance options
    • GPU Mem: 256

• apt update && apt upgrade

• Run ansible

  bash cd ~/ansible/ varac ansible-playbook -l mediaplayer site.yml

• Configure chromium browser for netflix etc

• reboot

Run ansible-playbook again (?)

Additional tasks

• Turn off screen saver (Settings → Privacy → Screenlock)
• Bigger fonts (Settings → Accessability)

Autostart in fullscreen mode

firefox-fullscreen.sh:

#!/bin/sh
firefox &
xdotool search --sync --onlyvisible --pid $! windowactivate key F11

~/.config/autostart/firefox.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=/home/casita/firefox-fullscreen.sh
Hidden=false
NoDisplay=false
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
Name[en_US]=Firefox
Name=Firefox
Comment[en_US]=
Comment=