whroom is a location sharing tool in our university. If you are in the building, whroom try to identify which room you are in and send it to server. Also, you can look up the other's last location log within the university by it.
To get the location log of s1230004, type:
$ whroom get s1230004
$ brew install aizu-go-kapro/whroom
Homebrew or Releases binaries can be upgraded automatically so they are recommended.
$ go get github.com/aizu-go-kapro/whroom
Some preferences are needed.
firebase_url = "https://tmp.firebaseio.com"
student_id = "s1230004"
wifi_interface = "wlp2s0"
duration = "1s"
The search paths for it:
- ~/.whroom.toml
- ~/.config/whroom/config.toml
The firebase_url for UoA students: ref. http://web-int.u-aizu.ac.jp/~s1230004/whroom.toml
The --config option can be used to specify additional path.
To logging your location periodicaly, an background job must be setup.
If you have installed it with Homebrew, it provides also the way to setup daemon.
$ brew services start whroom
For macOS user, the .plist file is provided.
$ cp ./whroom.plist /Library/LaunchDaemons/
$ launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/whroom.plist
For Ubuntu or other Linux distributions using Systemd user, the .service file is provided.
$ vi whroom.service # Edit it to fit your environment.
$ sudo systemctl link ./whroom.service
$ sudo systemctl enable whroom
$ sudo systemctl start whroom