HTTP interface on Raspberry Pi

[HrabiaMol]

Hi all,

This is my first post here so in case I am asking something that has been already discussed please don't be mad.

So I will first start with a short explanation of what I am trying to do and what did I manage to do.
I recently got my hands on the Raspberry Pi B board. After setting up the basic stuff (ssh, irc, firewall, transmissions ...) and connecting it to the internet I decided that I want a media streaming service which I can access from anywhere. So I did my research and decided to try doing this with VLC. After some effort I finally came to the result I wanted with the following bash script:

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#!bin/bash vlc -vvv "$@" --sout '#standard{access=http,mux=asf,dst=0.0.0.0:49152}' -I http

It worked well. I was watching/listening to the stream via a VLC client and controlling it via the http interface.

But my next step was to lock the http interface with a password. That is where I could not get it to work no matter what I tried.

First I tried adding the

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--http-password <pass_string>

at the end of the line. No success.
Then I tried adding the same line to the .hosts file.

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/usr/share/vlc/lua/http/.hosts

No success.
I tried to add the same line to the vlcrc file.

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.config/vlc/vlcrc

No success.
I tried all the variations of the mentioned line. Without the double dash, with the equal sign. Everything that came to my mind or that I could find reference to.

The last few things I want to mention are:
- I use the Rasbian distribution, so it is Debian Wheezy
- the version of VLC I used for this. It is the 2.0.2. I use this one because it is the one that you get after you go through

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apt-get install vlc

- trying to install VLC with wheezy-backports returned no succes. It did not install

As I am writing this I am using this guide am waiting that compilation to be done.
I will update if it was successful.

So, finally to my question:
How do I configure a password for the http interface in the VLC version 2.0.2 without running any desktop environment so all in the command line? (Note that I have read https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation ... fore_2.1.0 many many many times)

[edwardw]

http-password is only for version 2.1.0 and later. VLC 2.0.2 did not have http-password.

[HrabiaMol]

Hey,

thank you for the answer.
So if I got it right, there is no way to set a password for the http interface in versions bellow 2.1?

[edwardw]

No, since the password feature was introduced in 2.1.0.

But you can still use the old hosts IP control system in 2.0.x.