This repository contains the source code for the Python Departure board servers, which can be plugged into the Python Departure module.
It contains the following board server back ends:
- Pygame,
- SDL2,
- LED matrix, for physical departure boards powered by Raspberry Pi and the Python bindings of the rpi-rgb-led-matrix project.
On Debian-based Linux (and similarly for other flavours of Linux), for the Pygame back end, make sure the following packages are installed:
$ sudo apt-get install python3-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev \
libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libsdl1.2-dev libsmpeg-dev python-numpy subversion \
libportmidi-dev ffmpeg libswscale-dev libavformat-dev libavcodec-dev \
libfreetype6-dev
The SDL2 back end is built on PySDL2: see https://pysdl2.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html#prerequisites its prerequisites.
Note – For this back end, before starting the server, make sure that the PYSDL2_DLL_PATH environment directory points to the SDL2 library (e.g. SDL2.dll on Windows) if it's not in the standard library directories.
The Pygame and SDL2 back ends can be installed using:
$ pip install departure-server-pygame
$ pip install departure-server-sdl
These commands will install the prerequired Python packages.
To use the LED matrix back end on a Raspberry Pi with suitable LED matrices (e.g. 3 64x32 matrices), first install the rgbmatrix module as per the instructions, then run:
$ pip install departure-server-led-matrix
Use the departure-server command to start a board server with a specific back end.
Running the command without an argument will show the available back ends.
$ departure-server
Once the board server has been started, on the client side (e.g. using the departure CLI or the Departure web API server), set the DEPARTURE_BOARD_SERVER environment variable to the IP address or hostname of the server, then start the client.
Here is an image of the board server running the Pygame back end:
Written by Sébastien Pujadas, released under the MIT license.