justinwoodring / alexbox

A TV sheduling system.

Alexbox

Alexbox is a scheduling tool for mpv that lets schedule media to be played at certain times of the day.

The python script that connects with mpv has not been uploaded yet.

Running

You'll need docker, rust, npm, cross, and cargo-strip.

1. So get docker somehow.

2. Install rust and npm.

3. Then run

cargo install cargo-strip
cargo install cross

4. Now run the following to actually run the server.

git clone https://github.com/Booglejr/alexbox
make test

Installing

1. Do every step in Running except replace make test with make package or make package-pi

2. All the files you need to install somewhere will be placed into build or build-pi

3. Take these files and put them somewhere like /etc/opt/alexbox

Documentation

For more documentation please see the wiki, Alexbox Wiki

alexbox's Issues

Feature to allow immediate command submission

In order to switch the currently running television program, the user must log into the server and then from the shell issue an MPV command redirected to the MPV IPC listener interface.

I propose that there be a UI interface feature or features, where the user can do one or both of the following:

1. Submit a command instantly
2. From a button on the info panel for a tile, instantly trigger execution of the commands associated with that "tile" or TV programming block

The server process would receive the command and execute it directly (not involving the database at all) using the permissions that the server process is running under.