Update: 12 October 2016
Thanks to commenter Fishscene for pointing out the following:
livestreamer for twitch is broken. Twitch made a change to require an OAUTH token and disallow annonymous viewing. livestreamer hasn’t been updated in over a year. Project was forked to streamlink and includes twitch fix:
https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink
I’ll leave this for prosperity, it has been linked to several time.
I’m not too proud of this but my laptop couldn’t handle streaming ‘Twitch Plays Pokemon’ and me doing day to day tasks and I can’t stop watching now. I’ve decided to use a spare Raspberry Pi have to keep the stream open 24/7 on a spare monitor I have.
Here’s a video:
Thanks to Livestreamer it is unbelievably easy to view this stream.
The following command will install Livestreamer:
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apt-get install python-pip pip install livestreamer |
To make things even simpler, I have also written the following python program that will open the stream to HDMI. You can set the line that runs this program as a cron job to run at boot if you wish.
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import os os.system("livestreamer twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon best -np 'omxplayer -o hdmi'") |
Which you can get on your pi with:
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wget https://esologic.com/source/TPP/raspberry_TPP.py |
Once it is downloaded you can run it with:
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python raspberry_TPP.py |
And it will open on your HDMI monitor.