An application built for the Raspberry Pi that fetches the most popular movie posters and displays them. Meant to be a digital poster display.

• Install raspian lite on raspberry pi

• Change the default password on the default Pi account (GUIDE HERE)

• Ensure network connection is active, either by connecting an ethernet cable or through WiFI

• Enable autologin to skip the login on boot

  • Run: sudo raspi-config
  • Choose option 3: Boot Options
  • Choose option B1: Desktop / CLI
  • Choose option B2: Console Autologin
  • Select Finish, and reboot the pi.

• If you need to access the pi remotely (which shouldn't be necessary) enable SSH

• Disable screen blanking so that the Raspberry Pi’s display doesn’t go to sleep

  • type sudo nano /boot/cmdline.txt
  • verify that the following line exists: consoleblank=0
  • if the line does not exist, add it

• Install the photo viewer (FBI), run sudo apt-get update then sudo apt-get install fbi

• Rotate the display output for the raspberry pi

  • type sudo nano /boot/config.txt
  • Change display_rotate=0 to 1, 2, or 3 depending on which way your display is rotated
  • display_rotate=1 (this will rotate your display 90 degrees)
  • display_rotate=2 (this will rotate your display 180 degrees)
  • display_rotate=3 (this will rotate your display 270 degrees)
  • If there is no entry for “display_rotate”, you can add it

• At this point you can clone this repository containing the scripts required into the raspberry pi by running git clone https://github.com/officialgupta/GoPoster.git in the base directory (/home/pi)

• You will need a TMDB API key to fetch the appropriate posters, to do so you must create a TMDB account and then navigate to the API Page to obtain the API key. It is very important that you place this api key into a file named "key" in the base directory (/home/pi).

• Make the project run automatically on startup

  • Change to your home directory by typing cd ~
  • type sudo nano .bashrc
  • add a line to the end of the file that reads ./posterpi.sh

• You must schedule the raspberry pi to fetch the latest posters. To schedule the poster to refresh every day type 0 0 * * * /home/pi/getposters.sh. You can use an alternate cron entry for a different interval.

• The amount of time a poster displays for can be changed in the posterpi.sh file by changing the -t parameter within the fbi call. fbi -t <TIME IN SECONDS> -a --noverbose -l /home/pi/PosterPi.txt

• You may need to make the shell files executable using chmod +x <filename>

• If you change the Go code you will need to rebuild it in a linux environment, the easiest way is to install go on the raspberry pi using sudo apt-get install golang and then running go build

• The photo display elements of this project were adapted from Rob O'Hara's PosterPi. the writeup for this and some extra tips can be found at his blog post.