Play-Play

What is Play-Play?

A web application for creating display boards organizing game matches. Let your friends and colleagues know when and what is being played.

Requirements

These are what was used to create the project. It does not necessary represent minimum requirements.

• Rasberry Pi 3
• Raspian Stretch
• Python 3

Fonts

If you try to view the app from the Pi, or any other Linux distribution you might experience that some glyphs doesn't display correctly. You might see squares instead. For a workaround to this refer to FONTS.md.

Configuration

The application can be configured by creating a playplay/config.js file. You can use playplay/config.default.json as a reference template.

Right now it's just the application title.

{
  "title": "Play-Play"
}

Development Server

Play-Play is a Flask application. You can use Flask's development server for development testing.

For release deployment see DEPLOYMENT.md.

Setting Up

Clone the project

mkdir ~/code
cd ~/code
git clone https://github.com/thomthom/play-play.git

Create a Python Virtual Environment

sudo pip3 install virtualenv
virtualenv playplayenv
source playplayenv/bin/activate

Install Flask App

pip install --editable .

Configure Flask App

export FLASK_APP=playplay
flask initdb

Run Development Server

flask run

The application can be accessed from: http://localhost:5000/

To allow access from the network:

flask run --host=0.0.0.0