No keyboard input on raspberry pi with omxplayer

[p-brz]

Hi, i am trying to run peerflix with omxplayer on raspberry pi (version 2).
When i run on terminal:

peerflix "<magnet torrent link>" --omx

the omxplayer can reproduce the video fine, but i cannot control it (it does not recognize any keyboard input).

I have found another report of the same problem: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=110495&p=758762

Notes: i am running on raspbian

peerflix --version output:

0.30.1

omxplayer --version output:

omxplayer - Commandline multimedia player for the Raspberry Pi
Build date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 01:49:30 +0000
Version   : 337004e [master]
Repository: https://github.com/popcornmix/omxplayer.git

Any help is appreciated

Thanks

[jaruba]

Uh, I worked on a project with peerflix and omxplayer just last week:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/torrent-pi

It has a web remote so you can control it with your smartphone, tablet, laptop, pc, whatever has a browser.. :)

also has a search box (giggles)

screenshot of the web-remote:

[manuhabitela]

Hey,

I had the same issue and made a pull request enabling keyboard inputs for omxplayer when using peerflix. You can give it a try with my fork.

[p-brz]

@jaruba , i don't know if your project is what i was looking for. However, it looks really interesting, i will give it a try. 👍

@Leimi : thanks for the fix, i will try it out as soon as i can. ^^

[p-brz]

@Leimi : finally i could go test on my raspberry, and worked nice! 👍

[jaruba]

finally i could go test on my raspberry, and worked nice!

I'm glad you got the result you desired!

@mafintosh could you please merge: #222

it seems harmless and has already been requested, tested and approved by a user in this issue report :)

[mafintosh]

@jaruba sorry been busy. commented on the pr