---+ Running Netflix on Raspberry Pi 3 ---++ Download and install Raspbian onto the SD card * Download zip file for Raspbian Stretch Lite from: https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_lite_latest * Check the SHA256 hash of the downloaded zip file to make sure it has not been tampered with: sha256sum 2018-04-18-raspbian-stretch-lite.zip * Expected value for SHA256 hash can be found here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/ * Unzip image file: unzip 2018-04-18-raspbian-stretch-lite.zip && rm -f 2018-04-18-raspbian-stretch-lite.zip * Write image file to SD card: sudo dd bs=1M if=2018-04-18-raspbian-stretch-lite.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 * Insert the SD card in the Raspberry Pi and boot * Once the Pi is booted, open a terminal and execute the following commands: * sudo systemctl enable ssh * sudo systemctl start ssh * From now on, you should be able to log in using SSH. Username: pi, password: raspberry. The IP address should be shown while booting. Please note I am using wired ethernet. * Chaning the password for user pi is highly recommended! This can be done using raspi-config * sudo systemctl disable avahi-daemon.service bluetooth.service bthelper.service console-setup.service rpi-display-backlight.service rsync.service hciuart.service * sudo apt-get update * sudo apt-get upgrade * sudo systemctl disable avahi-daemon.service bluetooth.service bthelper.service rpi-display-backlight.service rsync.service hciuart.service * sudo update-rc.d -f console-setup remove * sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg xinit xserver-xorg-video-fbdev lightdm unclutter ratpoison upower xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-scalable lxterminal dbus-x11 * Run the command alsamixer and set the volume for PCM to 100% * In a terminal, run "sudo raspi-config" and: * 3 Boot Options -> B1 Desktop / CLI -> B4 Desktop Autologin * 4 Localisation Options -> I1 Change Locale, enable: * en_US ISO-8859-1 * en_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15 * en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 * your country locales * Select the default locale you want to use, I use en_US.UTF-8 * 4 Localisation Options -> I2 Change Timezone * 4 Localisation Options -> I3 Change Keyboard Layout. I use Generic 104-key PC, English (US), English (US), The default for the keyboard layout, No compose key * 5 Interfacing Options -> P6 Serial -> Would you like a login shell to be accessible over serial?: No, Would you like the serial port hardware to be enabled?: No * 7 Advanced Options -> A1 Expand Filesystem (This should have been done at first boot) * 7 Advanced Options -> A3 Memory Split -> How much memory (MB) should the GPU have? 256 * Edit /boot/config and change (or add) the following lines: * hdmi_force_hotplug=1 * hdmi_group=1 * hdmi_mode=4 (720p, 60Hz) * hdmi_ignore_cec_init=1 * reboot the Pi ---++ Install and configure Chromium * Download and install a version of chromium with Widevine decryption support: * wget https://github.com/kusti8/chromium-build/releases/download/netflix-1.0.0/chromium-browser_56.0.2924.84-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1011.deb * sudo apt-get install gconf-service libgconf-2-4 libnspr4 libnss3 libxss1 libxcb-image0 libnss3 xdg-utils libdbus-glib-1-2 gconf2-common libxcb-util0 * sudo dpkg -i $(pwd)/chromium-browser_56.0.2924.84-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1011.deb * Edit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf and add the following lines: * [Seat:*] * xserver-command=X -s 0 dpms * Create the file /home/pi/.xsession containing: * ratpoison & * sleep 1 * while true; do * chromium-browser * done * In Chromium, go to More Tools -> Extensions, go the Chrome Web Store to install the User-Agent Switcher for Chrome (by google.com) * Right click on the User-Agent Switcher icon and click Options to add a new User Agent: * Name: Netflix * User Agent string: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS armv7l 6946.63.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/47.0.2526.106 Safari/537.36 * Group: Chrome * Append?: Replace * Indicator Flag: IE * Click Add * Once configured, click on the User-Agent Switcher icon and select Chrome -> Netflix * Sign in to Netflix to see if it now works. Make sure to save the Netflix username and password in Chromium * Once it does, edit /home/pi/.xsession and change the chromium-browser command to * chromium-browser --no-startup-window --disable-sync-preferences --kiosk -disk-cache-dir=/dev/shm --disable-reading-from-canvas --start-maximized --app=https://www.netflix.com/ -- %USERSIG{IvoVanGeel - 16 Jun 2018}%
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