small media cast platform for your humble abode
| tool | description |
|---|---|
| golang | to build the service app |
| flutter | to build the UI ( web already built in ./ui/dist/web) |
| docker (with compose) | to run the services |
Run these commands on the machine that is going to host the platform.
# build the service executable
$ GOOS=linux make build
# prepare environment file (see .env.example)
$ cat .env
FILE_BROWSER_PORT=8000
SERVICE_HOST=192.168.0.50
SERVICE_PORT=8080
WEB_PORT=9000
MEDIA_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/media/directory
# finally, run the platform detached
$ make run
# to get logs
$ curl "http://${SERVICE_HOST}:8080/logs" | jq
{
"data": [
"http://192.168.0.50:43403/log-2023-12-17_15-04-25.833.log"
]
}The UI is built & stored in the repo because at the moment, as far as I can tell, flutter does not support building on all architectures, including ARM for raspberry pi (the one I am using for deployment). Hopefully this will improve in the future, then the pre-built UI distribution can be removed from the repo.
To build the UI run the following command. Subsequent deployments will use the updated UI from ui/dist/.
$ make build-ui
# redeploy
$ make run- add support for
- other devices (only Chromecast supported)
- other media sources (only local file system supported)
- other file extensions (only .mp4 and .srt supported)
- add extra device operations (play speed, queueing, etc.)
- better service feedback
- better errors (with source file/stack trace)
- device logs in the app
- add device selection API & selection from UI
- fix bugs
- fix 'no transition' error
- code TODOs