mptv

MPV front-end for IPTV channels.

Convert Your Raspberry Pi into IPTV receiver. Anything that MPV can play.

Stack

Java Swing application that crawls and parses M3U playlists, displaying them in graphical menu and opening them with MPV. Reads IR commands from any TV remote, controlling menu, opening and managing MPV player state.

Example configuration config.json.example, rename to config.json. Take look and configure the way You like it. May have multiple IR bind sets, so You can switch between them with currentBindSet variable. Use piir dump to dump IR commands from Your TV remote.

Uses PiIR for reading TV remote IR signals.

pigpio must be present in system, and its daemon pigpiod must be running. Enable it with sudo systemctl enable pigpiod

Recommended to use Xorg and PulseAudio. PulseAudio default sink must be set to HDMI output, with command like pactl set-default-sink 1

Don't forget to enable PulseAudio user service with command systemctl --user enable pulseaudio

Some configurations files could be found in linux folder to help with Your setup.

Configuration

The configuration is a JSON file config.json

• frame - GUI window parameters. Note that fullscreen may not work well in Xorg.
• db - DB configuration. Only supports SQLite.
• piir - PiIR configuration. You must provide path to piir executable in exec field. gpio corresponds to GPIO pin. bindSet decribes binds for each remote, select current remote bind set with currentBindSet field. For bind explanation refer to config.json.example
• sources - Here You write Your M3U playlist sources. May be either local file or remote URL. Take look at config.json.example
• tasks - Adjust here intervals for each task to be executed. If You experience frequent MPV restarts, You may want to adjust processService to 2 second interval. crawler task will be executed once every 24 hours.

Recommended IR connection to GPIO

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