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I have a Raspberry Pi 4 which I'm attempting to get to open an RTSP stream via VLC at login. I have an sh script which when ran manually opens the stream as expected, however, I can't get it to open automatically when the device logs on. How do I go about doing this?

 

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[mavhc]

You'll want to run the script from the .xinitrc file probably, or failing that, .bash_profile in the home dir for the user that auto logs in, /home/pi or similar.

 

to see hidden files:

ls -a

 

to edit/create them: nano .xinitrc

[Rooty]

I have a Raspberry Pi 4 which I'm attempting to get to open an RTSP stream via VLC at login. I have an sh script which when ran manually opens the stream as expected, however, I can't get it to open automatically when the device logs on. How do I go about doing this?

 

Thanks

 

Depending upon the distribution you're using, there's many ways to achieve this, but an ideal way would be to run this as a systemd unit.

 

Take a look at this Stack Overflow answer: https://askubuntu.com/questions/919054/how-do-i-run-a-single-command-at-startup-using-systemd

[JRA]

Just chiming in from the (far) future to say rpisurv is worth a look if you're wanting to auto-open RTSP streams/media with a pi. Had a good old fiddle with VLC but dropped it in the end. Working well for a little school display here and some live CCTV monitors.