YouTuPi

YouTuPi lets you play local and YouTube videos in your Raspberry Pi using a (mobile) web interface. It provides a web UI for Omxplayer (the raspbian media player). It has two modules:

• Local for available media in the filesystem
• Youtube support thanks to pafy

Installation

cd ~
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kktuax/youtupi/master/service/install.sh -o youtupi-install.sh
chmod +x youtupi-install.sh 
sudo ./youtupi-install.sh

Use YouTuPi

• Start youtupi

  sudo /etc/init.d/youtupi start
  

• Grab your Tablet/Phone/PC and go to: http://192.168.1.2:8080 (replace 192.168.1.2 with your Raspberry Pi address).

• Enjoy!

Configuration file

You can customize the download folder and some other parameters in the JSON configuration file

nano /home/pi/youtupi/youtupi.conf

{
    "port": 8888,
    "local-folders": [
        "~/Media", "~/Downloads"
    ],
    "download-folder": "~/Downloads"
}

Problems?

Try updating, or installing again a newer version

sudo /etc/init.d/youtupi update

Still no luck? Raise an issue