This project represents code used to run my robotic bartender. The drinks, ingredients, and recipes are all stored in a SQLite DB. There are services designed to pull out relevant information and a web server designed to serve up a web UI. There is also a platform specific service which is used to actually turn on the pumps, etc. with a GPIO interface. This interface is stubbed out on non-ARM based systems but works for the Raspberry Pi.
Currently, the Bar2D2 application runs a set of services written in Go with a web based front end written in HTML, Javascript, CSS. When deployed on the Raspberry Pi, a script starts the Bar2d2 services (oddly named ui/ui...) and then starts X Windows with Chromium. The web front end uses RESTful services to talk to the Bar2d2 services. This is not ideal since X Windows and Chromium are fairly heavy on the Raspberry Pi. Performance-wise, it can take X and Chrome up to 45 seconds to start before the app even starts. I'm looking into changing this using a UI written in OpenVG natively on the Raspberry Pi, but that's a longer term project.
I've setup a Makefile to build everything, though I haven't tested it extensively. Before you start, make sure you have Go and an implementation of GCC setup and in your path (on Windows, I'm using MinGW implementation of GCC). Then, to get the required Go dependencies run this once: make setup
After that, doing a simple make build or just a make should work.
I've included a "seed" DB that has a number of drinks/ingredients in it so you should be able to run this out of the box. Once built, start the server from the /b2d2/bar2d2 directory like so:
ui/ui (or, under Windows ui/ui.exe). If you want to start it somewhere else, you can specify on the command line where the root bar2d2 directory is using the --root argument. Something like:
./ui --root=/home/bozo/bar2d2
One of these days, I'm going to break out the command line arguments such that the path to the DB, the path to the web files, etc. can be specified separately to make it a little more portable.
This is a work in process so if you want to play with it...Good Luck!