Bluetooth media center

[Voldetort]

Hi, new here so I'm not sure if this is the right place to put this (it's either this or graphics sound and media).

Recently got a raspberry pi 2 for the express purpose of doing a project. The idea was that I'd build a headless mp3 player controlled with bluetooth from my phone (using a bluetooth dongle on the raspberry pi). The Pi itself would have the music on a USB attached to it, and the idea was that I'd scroll through these files with my phone and choose what to play (my phone has very limited storage). My question is, are there any programs that will do it? If needs be, I can give you more details.

[NC_Horn]

If you are talking about playing the media over the media center but controlling with your phone, Kodi as a media center and Kore on Android / iPhone works great. You will be controlling, not over Bluetooth but over WiFi.

Duane

[tpylkko]

Or

http://www.pimusicbox.com/

for a headless music player controlled over wifi (web page).

[Voldetort]

Trouble is, being Bluetooth is a pretty important part of it, because I'd end up using data to control it, and I only get 500mb a month which I need to get around. Since this post, I came across something called Linux BlueControl.
Thanks for the answers, and I appreciate it a lot, if you have any more ideas please tell me.

[tpylkko]

When you say that you have 500 MB a month, I assume you mean that your ISP doesn't allow you to move more data from the internet than said 500 MB per month. Notice, however, that WLAN is not internet. And when people are talking about controlling it over WIFI here, they are referring to you doing it on your LAN, and not internet. So, the webpage on the media centre is not going to be on the internet, but on your own home network.

[Voldetort]

This is a weird project, but it's not for use at home, it's actually portable.

[tpylkko]

Yes but you must realize that using a LAN or wifi is not confined to your home.

[Voldetort]

If you could tell me how to set up a LAN network that will run from my raspberry pi and be controlled by my phone, I'm more than happy to give it a try, it'll probably be easier than using bluecontrol- as long as it won't use data.

[ghans]

You need to turn your Pi into a WiFi hotspot. You need
a special (but rather cheap and ubiquitous) USB WLAN
dongle for this.

Note that this Raspbian tutorial won't work on OpenELEC , but
perhaps on OSMC.

http://raspberrypihq.com/how-to-turn-a- ... fi-router/

ghans

[Voldetort]

And this will work how I want (using my phone as a remote control to choose music to play through headphones from the amplifier connected to the pi, as opposed to streaming through my phone)?

[ghans]

Yes. It looks like recent versions of OpenELEC do already[/]
contain an option to turn the Pi into a WiFi Hotspot though ?!

ghans

[Voldetort]

So simply put, get openELEC, install the programs I need (VLC in this case) get the client side app on my phone, and I'm sorted?

[ghans]

I don't see why you would install VLC on OpenELEC since
Kodi itself is a media player.

Not to forget that OpenELEC is a single-purpose OS which
might suppurt Kodi add-ons but not "normal" GUI GNU/Linux
software.

In fact they replaced apt-get with a wrapper that informed
you that OpenELEC is not designed to be
extended via adding packages or installing software.

I guess you should install OSMC instead , which also runs Kodi
but is extensible.

ghans

[Voldetort]

So openELEC is an OS, kodi is already installed on it, I have to set it up to be a wireless hotspot, from which I can connect my phone and control it like a remote computer?

[ghans]

I'm not sure if OpenELEC actually supports this feature.
You might want to ask on their forum.

OSMC on the other hand at least enables the installation of
the hotspot software , as far i can recall.

ghans