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BeagleBone Media Center
David Lewin
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BeagleBone Media Center
Table of Contents
BeagleBone Media Center
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Preface
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1. Transforming Your BeagleBone Black into a Media Server
The choice that is not yours
You'll still be restricted by their proposals
You hardly manage your own content
Your server, your rules
Powerful and straightforward software installations
Using dedicated hardware
Looking at daily scenarios for media usage
Down in the cave is a server without a head – headless servers
Preparing BeagleBone to be a server
Booting from an SD Card or flash (eMMC)
Extending the root limitations on a fresh installation
Extending your root's partition
Let's get acquainted with our friend – MediaDrop
MediaDrop installation steps
BBB Debian – prerequisites
Setting up a dedicated database
Step 1 – set up a Python virtual environment
Step 2 – installing MediaDrop
Step 3 – basic configuration file
Step 4 – copying content from the initial data
Step 5 – filling the server database and contents
Step 6 (optional) – full-text searching
Testing time – "Hello Server"
Switching from development to production
Let's take a walk in our new MediaDrop server
Your first administrator action
General settings
Site name
Default language
Appearance
Categories
Comments
Notification e-mails
Players
Popularity
Tags
Upload
File size limit
Storage engines
Self-test questions
Summary
2. Media Management, Shares, and Social Activities
How to use MediaDrop through workflows
Why approvals are required
Publishing your media
Auto administrated contents
Administrator tasks
Exploring different ways to access your media
Self-test questions
Summary
3. Examples of Real-world Situations
Introducing the security role
An everyday use case – a house in Springfield
Defining your users list
Understanding role attributions
Group management
Applying groups and users
Second use case – media management in a company
Managing policies and groups
Self-test questions
Summary
4. Getting Your Own Video and Feeds
Detecting the hardware device and installing drivers and libraries for a webcam
How to know your webcam
Setting up your webcam
Installing and running MJPG-Streamer
Installing MJPG-Streamer
Starting the application
Let's add some security
"I'm famous" – your first stream
Using our stream across the network
Starting the streaming service automatically on boot
Exploring new capabilities to install
Plugins
Another tool for the webcam
Configuring RSS feeds with Leed
Creating the environment for Leed in three steps
Creating a database for Leed
Downloading the project code and setting permissions
Installing Leed
Setting up a cron job for feed updates
Using Leed to add your RSS feed
Some Leed preferences settings in a server environment
Extending Leed with plugins
Summary
5. Building Your Media Player
Introducing BeagleBone capes
Exploring capes' categories
Considering a personal Palm Media player
Functional description
Physical description
Installing a system for the expansion board
Looking at the available operating systems
Retrieving the latest files, images, documentation, or software
Installing drivers
Prerequisites for installing any system
Considering a virtual machine
Finding your SD card device
Listing devices with lsblk
Using the dmesg utility
Checking your investigation
Adapting foreign systems for the installer script
Installing your system
Installing and using Android
Installing and using Debian
Installing and using TI EZSDK
Taking a look at TI's linux unique tools
TI's website
Developing with Qt
Using the expansion board with Android
Using files from a computer
Installing applications
Games
Watching and listening to media
Summary
6. Illuminate Your Imagination with Your Own Projects
Presenting the "matrix revolution"
The LED matrix
Introducing I2C
Wiring the matrix to the board
Diving into the software
Example 1 – our first client server application
Installing the requirements
Running the example
Jumping into the code
Description of the data packet
Describing the server code
Questions and suggestions related to this example
Example 2 – improving the first example by adding functionalities
From the client side
From the server side
Improving the client with Kivy
Questions and thoughts related...