castmill-player

Electron based castmill player

Project setup

The project uses Vue CLI Plugin Electron Builder

The project enforces the use of https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0-beta.2/

via git pre commit hooks.

The most useful information for electron can be found here

Support for autolaunch is provided by this package

yarn install

Compiles and hot-reloads for development

yarn dev

Compiles and minifies for production

yarn run build

Run your tests

yarn run test

Lints and fixes files

yarn run lint

Player Configuration

Select a specific environment by specifying VUE_APP_PLAYER_CONFIG Defaults to tpd

Examples:

VUE_APP_PLAYER_CONFIG=whitelabel yarn dev

VUE_APP_PLAYER_CONFIG=castmill yarn run build

Build configuration

See Configuration Reference.

Installing on DietPI

If you build the player for linux arm architecture, you can install it as a debian package. However, you need to do a few things:

$ sudo dpkg --add-architecture armv7l

$ sudo apt-get install gconf2 gconf-service libnotify4 libappindicator1 libxtst6 libnss3 libxss1

$ sudo dpkg -i castmill-player-0.1.0-armv7l.deb

Installing on Ubuntu

It can be installed easily with ubuntus package manager, however following dependencies are needed, at least in Ubuntu 14:

$ sudo apt-get install libnss3 libdbus-1-3

Autoupdate

Auto update is handled by this package

The app polls an (at the moment hard-coded) url pointing at a json file. This json file specifies the download paths of the different versions of the app.

Example:

{
  "linux-arm71-prod": {
    "update": "http://localhost:4455/castmill-player_0.1.0_armv7l.AppImage",
    "install": "http://localhost:4455/castmill-player_0.1.0_armv7l.AppImage",
    "version": "0.1.0"
  }
}

If an update is found it is automatically downloaded and installed