This program receives commands from UART 2 interface of banana pro, with parameters 115200 bps, parity: None, Data bits: 8, Stop bits: 1 and no hardware flow control.

To configure;

1. Install Ubuntu Mate.

2. Type "su" and login as "root".

3. Type "adduser uart" to add a new user.

4. Type "usermod -aG sudo uart"

5. Copy "uartvideo.py" and "init_dev.sh" files to "/home/uart"

6. Type "visudo -f /etc/sudoers"

7. At the end of "/etc/sudoers" file, add the following lines: %sudo ALL= NOPASSWD: /home/uart/init_dev.sh %sudo ALL= NOPASSWD: /bin/chmod

8. Open menu: "System > Startup Applications"

9. Click "Add" and type "UART video player" as Name, "python /home/uart/uartvideo.py" as Command.

10. Type "chmod 777 /home/uart/uart_dev.sh"

11. Edit "/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf" file as follows: [SeatDefaults] autologin-guest=false autologin-user=uart autologin-user-timeout=0 autologin-session=lightdm-autologin

12. Restart banana pro.

Commands expected from UART are:

P<file_name>
play <file_name> video
<file_name> is a null-terminated string, it ends with a (0) character.
there's no space between "P" and <file_name>
e.g. Pintroduction.avi : Starts the movie "introduction.avi" in the current directory.
Pvideos\setup.avi : Starts the movie "setup.avi" in the /videos directory.

S
stop playback