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After that, we can simply apply all parameter according to the documentation on the Syncplay website. This step is completely optional, but worth mentioning, since MOTDs are a nice way to personalize your server a bit.

Syncplay loads its MOTD from a file, so we are going to create a file and add our message. The Syncplay server offers a variety of flags we can use to customize its behaviour, which are documented on their website, for this example, we are going to set a server MOTD, a password, a custom port and our salt.

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If after this, your installation still yields dependency errors, make sure to check the Syncplay install page again to make sure, you have all the required dependencies installed. Sudo apt-get install python python-twisted python-pyside # Fix missing dependencies by installing the pre-packed packages (Raspberry Pi) # Fix missing dependencies by installing the python dependencies via pip (Generic) Please note, that you can use either of those attempts, though when running it on a Raspberry Pi, you want to use the latter, since Raspbian does not have all the build tools installed to properly build the required python libraries.

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The following code snippet offers a simple way to solve this problem. This has been the case especially when attempting to run it on a Raspberry Pi. The most common error experienced when attempting to run Syncplay for the first time is, that it complains about missing python dependencies. If your installation worked without any problems and running syncplay-server afterwards did not yield any errors, aside the note that you may add the –salt parameter to the next startup, you can skip this paragraph completely. Starting it for the first time will also give us a value for the -salt parameter, that we will have to use later on, so better note this somewhere. Once the installation is completed successfully, we are able to run the server via syncplay-server. Depending on your permission settings, you will have to run the mkdir and chown command via sudo, since your user will (and should!) most likely not have write-access to /opt Building and installing Syncplayįor our server, we are going to install syncplay in /opt/syncplay and create a new system user to run it. This guide has been tested a Linux machine running Ubuntu 14.04LTS and a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian Jessie.

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Plus some people would prefer to have their own server running anyways. Public servers are also rather rare and sometimes not reachable all the time. While setting up a server for your own is not that difficult, it’s quite laborious to do it every time you want to watch something. It works by either one of the users providing a server on their local machine for the clients to join, or everyone joining a public server. every time someone takes a break for a second. Syncplay is a tool that allows you to synchronize media players between multiple clients, which allows you to watch video files, that you and your friends have, together on different machines, without shouting 3.