Orange Pi to Play Video on a Monitor using FPP?

TomL8345

TomL8345

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I am trying to run a video (MP4) on a computer monitor as a stand alone system for my side hustle. I have been successful using a RPi 3B+ with FPP loaded, but I was hoping to use one of the alternate pi products instead. I have a lot of experience with FPP and RPis, but little to no knowledge of the OPi. Can I load FPP onto an OPi and output video? Will it work like the RPi? Can I just use the RPi image for the OPi?
 
I'll try and find the posts if I have time but there were a couple of posts and updates(including by me) on using and OrangePi 3 with FPP. I did have some issues getting it loaded to start with and gave up a bit prematurely. I think it's more than doable but I swapped out my Octoprint Rasberry pi instead for the sake of time.

As for the Video part of it, I'm not really sure.
 
I appreciate it Chris, but if it is not a very straightforward process I think I am going to do something similar with my Octoprint PI.
 
ctmal said:
I'll try and find the posts if I have time but there were a couple of posts and updates(including by me) on using and OrangePi 3 with FPP. I did have some issues getting it loaded to start with and gave up a bit prematurely. I think it's more than doable but I swapped out my Octoprint Rasberry pi instead for the sake of time.

As for the Video part of it, I'm not really sure.
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Did you ever get FPP connected with your Orange pi? Currently trying a orange pi 3, which seems to come up to FPP but won't let a browser connect. it shows a IP, which I can ping, but won't respond (ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED) in chrome. I am in the hopes that I might be able to run an old school Renard via USB.
Haven't actually heard of any one getting one to run first hand yet.
 
I did get it running but I gave up because it was losing it's network configurations. What distro did you use?
Most of my issues I found were when I was using Armbian. This was over a year ago so things may have changed. I had much better luck using the debian distro. From there, just follow the script fpp_install script.
If you do a search on FPP of "Orange", you'll see a lot of threads. I couldn't find the exact one I was looking for.
 
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