Displaying Video by pressing button

[DIYfirsttime]

Hello Builders,

Long time ago I installed my first Magic Mirror and it was working wonderful after days and days of configuration.
Now I have installed the newest Version v.2.23.0.
Now I am stuck with a request as it looks like that both modules are not supported anymore.
I was looking for a module that would allow me to play a specific video by pressing a GPIO button.
Like the modules I used on my old Magic Mirror. MMM-Button and MMM-Podcast2.

Is someone already working on something like this?

[robiv8]

Hallo,

i have Installed Buttons, Navigate, Podcast2, MplayerRadio, Dreambox etc.
The “Tagesschau 100sec.” works, watching TV from the reciever also works. All at the touch of a button. :-)
I have also installed OMX player and it works great.

Robi

Thanks to all the help in between from sdetweil everything is running ;-)

[sdetweil]

@DIYfirsttime mmm-buttons still works, just the update process is broken
use my fork

https://github.com/sdetweil/MMM-Buttons

anything that uses gpio needs to have the binary match the electron version, and so needs a rebuild as part of the install.

his old way doesn’t work anymore.

[DIYfirsttime]

@sdetweil Thank you for explaining to me how to get MMM-Buttons working.

To keep this Post still as an request I would like to know if there is a “fix” for MMM-Podcast2 or is someone working or wants to work on a module like this.
That I can use my physical button to play and stop a Video.

[sdetweil]

@DIYfirsttime omxplayer, used by podcast module, no longer works on later raspios versions. not a MagicMirror problem.

someone would have to find another solution and fix module, if possible.

[robiv8]

Hallo,

i have Installed Buttons, Navigate, Podcast2, MplayerRadio, Dreambox etc.
The “Tagesschau 100sec.” works, watching TV from the reciever also works. All at the touch of a button. :-)
I have also installed OMX player and it works great.

Robi

Thanks to all the help in between from sdetweil everything is running ;-)

[sdetweil]

@robiv8 cool… what pi are you using?

[robiv8]

@sdetweil
Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.1 4GB

[sdetweil]

@robiv8 thx
can u tell me which OS are are running?

lsb_release -a

will show it

[robiv8]

@sdetweil

pi@InfoTerminal:~ $ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Raspbian
Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Release: 10
Codename: buster

pi@InfoTerminal:~ $ uname -r
5.10.103-v7l+

[sdetweil]

@robiv8 said in Displaying Video by pressing button:

Codename: buster

thats why omxplayer still works…
doesn’t on bullseye