Open Smart Environment - DVB streamer example

This example provides a DVB streamer to be used together with the
media player example.

Features

- streaming using DVBlast
- unicast streaming of single channels
- multicast streaming of all channels in a single multiplex

Important links

This package is a part of the OSE suite. For more information, see the following links:
- DVB streamer example documentation
- OSE suite documentation
- All packages

About OSE

Open Smart Environment software is a suite for creating
multi-instance applications that work as a single whole.

Imagine, for example, a personal mesh running on various devices
including HTPCs, phones, tablets, workstations, servers, Raspberry
Pis, home automation gadgets, wearables, drones, etc.

OSE software consists of several npm packages: a framework running
on Node.js, an HTML5 frontend, extending
packages and a set of example applications.

Set-up of current example applications. Here,
OSE provides a Media player running on an HTPC
that can be controlled by an IR remote through
LIRC and is capable of playing streams from a
DVB streamer and control devices through GPIO
pins on a Raspberry Pi

For more information about OSE see the documentation.

Status

- Pre-alpha stage (insecure and buggy)
- Unstable API
- Patchy documentation
- Low test coverage (1 %)

This is not yet a piece of download-and-use software. It is important
to understand the basic principles covered by the
documentation.

However, this software is successfully and continuously used since end
of 2013 in one installation running 7 OSE instances spread over several
Raspberries, HTPC and notebook.

Platforms

OSE has the following prerequisites:
- Node.js (>0.12) running on Debian Jessie and Raspbian
- Recent version of Firefox or Chrome browser

Usage

For the DVB streamer application to work, you need the following
prerequisites:
- Node.js and npm
- DVBlast

To install the example application, do the following:

git clone https://github.com/OpenSmartEnvironment/ose-example-dvb
cd ose-example-dvb
npm install

To configure this example, edit ose-example-dvb/bin/run.js.
If you wish to use this example together with the Media player example,
configure its IP address and port number.

player: 'ws://IP_ADDRESS:PORT'

Start the DVB streamer example as follows:

./ose-example-dvb/bin/run.js

Licence

This software is released under the terms of the GNU General
Public Licence v3.0 or
later.