Allow custom apps directory location
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Since I'm packaging this for Alpine Linux, I'm not following the current file system structure this application expects.
I install the nymphcast_server binary to /usr/bin/nymphcast_server, the config files (src/server/*.ini) to /etc/nymphcast and apps (src/server/apps) to /usr/share/nymphcast/apps.
The binary and config files are fine, I just point my (so-far custom) init file to the right binary, and provide the config file with the -c argument. However, I see no current way to specify the location of the apps directory.
Is there an argument I can pass to the binary which would do this? Btw, supporting -h and/or --help would be nice 😉
The only expectation of the NymphCast server currently is that there's an /apps folder in the same folder as the NymphCast binary. I haven't made this configurable yet, but that's a relatively minor change.
I'll add this as an option along with the -h & --help options :)
Thanks! Now I think about it, the wallpapers should also be installed into /usr/share/nympchast somewhere, probalby a wallpapers subdirectory. Could that be made configurable as well? Maybe a general --data switch which in which it then checks for the wallpapers and apps subdirectories?
A question raised by @MartijnBraam:
With a Chromecast, applications and wallpapers are set from the remote device (phone, tablet, etc). Meaning the the apps and wallpapers directories are written too by the server when uploaded. Is this the case with Nymphcast as well? If so, I would have to install those directories to /srv instead.
It was my understanding that on a ChromeCast the apps and wallpapers are loaded from a remote webserver, as specified in JSON files on the ChromeCast dongle, though one can define custom wallapers as well.
Currently with NymphCast all apps are either local, or are loaded from a remote webserver, as specified in the apps.ini file in the src/server/apps/ folder. Wallpapers are currently kept solely on the local filesystem.
I have implemented a --help, --apps and --wallpapers option (untested). Of these the wallpapers option is currently not functional yet, but feel free to give it a try with the rest :)
Awesome, that works, thanks! I submitted the package to Alpine!