mediactl

This repository contains the software running on the mediactl.mediahell.hfbk.net Raspberry that controls the media technology in the Extended Library (see also Extlib Documentation).

mediactl sports a touchscreen that allows control of the media technology in that room – the interface for that touchscreen can be remotely accessed via mediactl.mediahell.hfbk.net if your machine is connected to the mediahell network.

service

Check Service Status

sudo systemctl status mediactl.service

Restart Service

sudo systemctl restart mediactl.service

autostart on RPI

See this for a description of how to start chromium via /home/d0/.xinit – note: this file contains the screen blanking settings (xset 600 0 )

note about apt

In /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/proxy.conf there is a proxy connection setup:

# "socks5h" means proxy with DNS resolving ability
Acquire {
  HTTP::proxy "socks5h://127.0.0.1:8080";
  HTTPS::proxy "socks5h://127.0.0.1:8080";
}

So we can then ssh into the machine with a tunnel

ssh -R 127.0.0.1:8080 mediactl

Editing the code in this repository

Git does not work in the mediahell network out of the box. As of now the recommended way is to mount it locally via sshfs (replace the id_ed25519 key with a valid one you own).

mkdir -p remote-mediactl
sudo sshfs -o allow_other,default_permissions -o IdentityFile=/home/YOURUSER/.ssh/id_ed25519 -p2222 YOURUSER@mediactl.mediahell.hfbk.net:/home/d0/mediactl remote-mediactl

Connection diagram

GPIO Connections

AC123-Remote