Best way to start Emby Theater on boot on Raspberry Pi

[bigembyfan 51]

Hi,

 

I looked all the way through the big Emby Theater thread and there's a couple of posts mentioning how to autostart Emby Theater on boot up of a Raspberry Pi.

 

I've tried a couple of these methods and also some other methods found searching the internet but I'm not having any joy at the moment - does anyone have a preferably fool proof or best way to get this setup?

 

I'm running the latest version (3.0.3).

 

Close to trying the full Emby Pi image but I have a few other things already on the Pi that i'd have to re-add and configure again which I'd prefer not to.

 

Thanks!

Edited September 20, 2018 by bigembyfan

[Luke 38842]

Well I know you already mentioned this, but the image would be the suggested way. Thanks.

[bigembyfan 51]

How is it achieved in the image Luke? I assume it's the same app running for the image as the one installed with the deb package?

[darkassassin07 540]

The file: /home/pi/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart

Is executed when the rpi starts up.

 

 

At the bottom of this file add these lines to start emby with raspbian. You may have to edit your the file paths to match where electron and theater are actually installed.

 

@xset s off

@xset -dpms

@xset s noblank

@/usr/local/bin/electron /home/pi/emby-theater-pi

[bigembyfan 51]

Thanks for that, works perfectly cheers.

 

I also add a boost to the volume that might be useful for others:

@amixer set PCM -- 90%

I've found putting it to 100% I'd get a few crashes, not sure if it's related but as soon as I nudge it down it doesn't seem to happen so that's good enough for me.

Edited September 25, 2018 by bigembyfan

[Spotta 6]

Thanks for that, works perfectly cheers.

 

I also add a boost to the volume that might be useful for others:

@amixer set PCM -- 90%

I've found putting it to 100% I'd get a few crashes, not sure if it's related but as soon as I nudge it down it doesn't seem to happen so that's good enough for me.

 

You need to remove the space between -- and 90% so the correct command is @amixer set PCM --90%