Installing wooble on your OSD

This page details installing the wooble web interface on your Neuros OSD. Commands in the boxes should be typed into a telnet session to the OSD.

If you previously installed the first version of wooble using Lpkg then follow these steps.

Firstly you need to grab a new version of Lpkg, which fixes a bug regarding upgrades:

cd /path/to/your/osdroot
. ./setup.sh        # (that is, two dots at the start, separated by a space)
lpkg update
lpkg install wget
wget http://matthewwild.co.uk/projects/Neuros/lpkg/lpkg1.1.lpkg
tar xf lpkg1.1.lpkg

To upgrade to the latest wooble, simply:

lpkg upgrade

The easiest way of installing wooble is by using Lpkg, a program that will help you install and manage various programs (packages) on your OSD.

Create a directory on your OSD, this directory will be used to store all programs that you choose to install. I refer to it from now on as osdroot.

Download Lpkg from http://matthewwild.co.uk/projects/Neuros/lpkg/lpkg1.1.lpkg and put it in your osdroot.

cd /path/to/your/osdroot
tar xf lpkg1.1.lpkg
. ./setup.sh   # (that is 2 dots at the start, separated by a space. You need to do this every time you want to use Lpkg, when you are in osdroot)
lpkg addfeed http://matthewwild.co.uk/projects/Neuros/packages.lpf
lpkg refresh
lpkg install wooble

To start wooble:

lpkg control luaetta start

Visit http://<IP address of your OSD>/ in your browser's address bar to see it in action!

Don't forget to set a username and password on the configuration page, as well as some phrase to be used to protect your media files.

To make sure you have the latest version of wooble:

cd /path/to/your/osdroot
. ./setup.sh
lpkg refresh
lpkg upgrade

If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch then you can install wooble_iphone, which adds an interface specially for those devices:

lpkg install wooble_iphone

Please report problems, and bugs, to the wooble bug tracker.

If you want live help with something, you can find me in #neuros on Freenode IRC. Alternatively there are other ways to contact me.