Setting up a raspberry pi 3 as a kiosk video player

On your raspberry pi 3 update and upgrade:

> sudo -i

> apt update

> apt upgrade

> apt install omxplayer

Then make a script:

> vi /home/pi/play.sh

And put in the following information

 #!/bin/bash

 for i in `seq 1 $1`

 do
       for file in /video/*.mp4

       do
               /usr/bin/omxplayer -o both -b $file
       done

 done

 cat /home/pi/log #show contents

 rm -f /home/pi/log #then empty

 touch /home/pi/log

 #if doing this often, check the file system is good then shutdown

 if [ $1 -gt 5 ]

 then

       sudo /home/pi/fd

       sudo /sbin/shutdown -h now

 fi

You can then put as many videos in /video as you wish to cycle!

On an older raspberry pi 3

Edit the /boot/cmdline.txt to be:

dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=ttyAMA0,115200 console=tty3 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline rootwait logo.nologo loglevel=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0

NB This must all be on the same line!

Then

> echo "/home/pi/play.sh 120" >> /etc/rc.local

On the latest raspberry pi 3

Edit the /boot/cmdline.txt to be:

consoleblank=1 logo.nologo quiet loglevel=0 plymouth.enable=0 vt.global_cursor_default=0 plymouth.ignore-serial-consoles splash fastboot noatime nodiratime noram

NB This must all be on the same line!

In /boot/config.txt uncomment or add:

disable_splash=1

Then echo "/home/pi/play.sh 120" >> /home/pi/.bashrc