This is what I've come up with for now, even tho it calls the older GPIO pin python version:

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#!/usr/bin/python

import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
import time
import os
import random

buttonPin = 21

directory = "/home/pi/Videos/"
GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)
GPIO.setup(buttonPin, GPIO.IN)

def playEpisode():
episode = random.choice(os.listdir(directory))
os.system('clear') cmd = "nohup omxplayer --aspect-mode stretch "+"'"+directory+episode+"' &"
print('Playing:')
print(episode)
os.system('killall omxplayer.bin')
os.system(cmd)

try:

GPIO.wait_for_edge(buttonPin, GPIO.FALLING)
playEpisode()

#point to location of this file
os.system('sudo python/home/pi/predicta.py')

except KeyboardInterrupt:
GPIO.cleanup()
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This version lets me press the button while a video is playing to get the
next random video....

However now I have more I want to add. I want the code to just automatcally start playing random video after random video, and only play a different one when I press a button. (You don't want to HAVE to press the button all the time...)

I think I'll be able to do that by just writing a while loop that plays
random videos, unless (else) a button press, then it plays a new one...

Oh, the joys of python. And I'm so green...



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Re: New predicta.py code
By: paulie420 to All on Sun Sep 06 2020 02:01 pm

However now I have more I want to add. I want the code to just automatcally start playing random video after random video, and only play a different one when I press a button. (You don't want to HAVE to press the button all the time...)

Hi Paulie,

Any updates on your project? Would love to see a video on youtube or something of the finished project working. It sounds pretty neat.

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Hi Paulie,
Any updates on your project? Would love to see a video on youtube or somethingof the finished project working. It sounds pretty neat.

~Bob:Rob~

Hey BobRob;

Yea, version 1.0 is done... as I posted here, I think, this version is good.. but I need help with the Python to make it better.

This version you have to press the button, get a video. Press again, another random video. Thats it...

I want to first add in that random videos begin playing on first run, and goto another IF theres a button press.
I'd like to add in playing a commercial every 3rd video, to make it seem more like regular television.
I'd like to display a Philco logo during the boot process, instead of the linuxy system stuff... I have a high quality SVG.
I'd like to add in a 'screensaver' if no button presses after 5 videos or so; switches to using 'fbi' to display images - as a screensaver.

Anyway, I installed the pi zero and button inside the TV; and it works great. Its a capacitive touch button, so I didn't have to modify the Predicta at all.. it 'presses' thru a thin wood section of the TV box.
I suppose I could throw a video up... my daughter is visiting but I'll get around to it and post links here.

Thanks, glad you read about my little Philco Predicta Project. :P



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Re: Re: New predicta.py code
By: paulie420 to Bob Roberts on Sun Oct 25 2020 11:10 am

Thanks, glad you read about my little Philco Predicta Project. :P

It just reminds me so much of Fallout. I hope one of those videos are of the Duck and Cover drills from the 50's.

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Thanks, glad you read about my little Philco Predicta Project. :P

It just reminds me so much of Fallout. I hope one of those videos are
of theDuck and Cover drills from the 50's.
~Bob:Rob~

LOL - Private Snafu, army cartoons... they get me goin. :P



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LOL - Private Snafu, army cartoons... they get me goin. :P

Snafu rules. IIRC, those were produced by the same studio that was doing Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies during that same period.


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LOL - Private Snafu, army cartoons... they get me goin. :P

Snafu rules. IIRC, those were produced by the same studio that was doing Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies during that same period.

Oh, heck yea they were... you can 'feel' it the moment you turn one on. I actually enjoy learning about the history of our country and how America has changed over the last 50 years. It was a different place, some good qualities and some bad...

Thats what this project really was for me; it brings another time period into my living room, which is a fun way to enjoy the content from back then that would otherwise be lost.



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