aircox: A CSS repository from bkfox

This project has been moved to: https://git.radiocampus.be/rc/aircox/

Platform to manage a radio, schedules, website, and so on. We use the power of great tools like Django or Liquidsoap.

This project is distributed under GPL version 3. More information in the LICENSE file, except for some files whose license is indicated.

Features

streams: multiple random music streams when no program is played. We also can specify a time range and frequency for each;
diffusions: generate diffusions time slot for programs that have schedule informations. Check for conflicts and rerun.
liquidsoap: create a configuration to use liquidsoap as a stream generator. Also provides interface and control to it;
sounds: each programs have a folder where sounds can be put, that will be detected by the system. Quality can be check and reported for later use. Later, we plan to have uploaders to external plateforms. Sounds can be defined as excerpts or as archives.
cms: application that can be used as basis for website;
log: keep a trace of every played/loaded sounds on the stream generator.

Scripts

Are included various configuration scripts that can be used to ease setup. They assume that the project is present in /srv/apps/aircox:

cron: daily cron configuration for the generation of the diffusions
supervisorctl: audio stream generation, website, sounds monitoring
nginx: sample config file (must be adapted)

The scripts are written with a combination of cron, supervisord, nginx and gunicorn in mind.

Installation

Later we plan to have an installation script to reduce the number of above steps.

Dependencies

For python dependencies take a peek at the requirements.txt file, plus dependencies specific to Django (e.g. for database: mysqlclient for MySql database server).

External applications & modules:

liquidsoap: aircox (generation of the audio streams)
sox: aircox (check sounds quality and metadatas)
gunicorn: WSGI server to be used in production (installed along as dependency)
supervisord: supervisor
note there might be external dependencies for python's Pillow too
sqlite, mysql or any database library that you need to run a database, that is supported by Django (+ eventual python deps)
gzip: archive logs

Development dependencies:

npm, webpack: thoses are used for assets managements and development.

Setup environment

All scripts and files assumes that:

you have cloned aircox in /srv/apps/ (such as /srv/apps/aircox/README.md)
you have a supervisor running (we have scripts for supervisord)
you want to use gunicorn as WSGI server (otherwise, you'll need to remove it from the requirement list)

This installation process uses a virtualenv, including all provided scripts.

# setup virtual env and activate
virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
# install requirements
pip install -r requirements.txt

Configuration

You must write a settings.py file in the instance directory (you can just copy and paste instance/sample_settings.py. There still is configuration required in this file, check it in for more info.

Installation and first run

Create the database if needed, and generate the tables:

# apply dependencies' migrations
./manage.py makemigrations
# create the database
./manage.py migrate --fake-initial
# create a super-user (needed in order to access the administration)
./manage.py createsuperuser

You must then configure the programs, schedules and audio streams. Start the server from this directory:

./manage.py runserver

You can access to the django admin interface at http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin and to the cms interface at http://127.0.0.1:8000/cms/.

From the admin interface:

create a Station
create all the Programs and complete their Schedules
defines Outputs for the streamer (look at Liquidsoap documentation for more information on how to configure it)

TODO: cms related documentation here

Once the configuration is okay, you must start the controllers monitor, that creates configuration file for the audio streams using the new information and that runs the appropriate application (note that you dont need to restart it after adding a program that is based on schedules).

If you use supervisord and our script with it, you can use the services defined in it instead of running commands manually.

More informations

There are extra informations in aircox/README.md.

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