russelg / radio2

Community radio software suite using Icecast, Flask and React.

radio2

A suite of software (comprised of Icecast, a REST API backend and a React frontend) which enables users to participate in a community radio. There is included functionality to request, favourite, upload and download songs.

This should (nearly) always be running at https://radio.sgfc.co.

Installing/Running the Radio

There are two ways of running this software, through Docker or manually.

Please note I perform all development and deployment using the docker method, so the manual method may not work for you. Please submit a new issue if this is the case.

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⚠️ Admin Account Warning ⚠️

By default the first user to register becomes an admin, so please register an account to use for admin purposes before you expose the website to the public internet.

I have included a script which can create users. This can be used before going live to make sure the above point is not an issue. Please use these scripts after all dependencies have been set up (i.e. after docker images are built or poetry packages are installed).

If you are using docker, run docker-compose run server python -m tools.create_user <username> -p <password> --admin.

If you are using the manual method, run poetry run python -m tools.create_user <username> -p <password> --admin.

Replace <username> and <password> with the desired user details.

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Using Docker

I have included Docker configs which should allow you to get this running fairly simply.

• Install docker and docker-compose.
• Copy radio/config.sample-docker.py to radio/config.py. This sample config is pre-configured with the correct URLs for the database and icecast.
• Run make init. This might take a while depending on internet speed.
• Run make batch-add to populate the database with any songs that exist in the music directories.
• Finally start the whole stack by running docker-compose up.

This configuration includes a Caddy service, which will listen on port 80 or 443. If you would like to use your own HTTP server, run this command instead of the above one: docker-compose up --scale caddy=0

Also included is a config for development, which can be used as so: docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.dev.yml <command>

Manual Setup

• Install icecast (2.4.1 or above).
• Install PostgreSQL for the database.
• Install Redis to allow song skipping.
• Make sure you have working installation of Python 3.6 or higher, if not install it.
• Install poetry (pip install poetry)
• Install dependencies using: poetry install
• Copy radio/config.sample.py to radio/config.py and edit the placeholder values.

A Caddy config is included to get started quickly.

Stream

python -m tools.generate_environment    # writes env files
icecast -b -c icecast.xml               # start icecast with generated xml
poetry run python -m radio.stream       # run the stream

API Server

Production:

poetry run gunicorn -b 0.0.0.0:5000 radio.api:app   # serve app with gunicorn

Development:

export FLASK_APP=radio/api.py
export FLASK_DEBUG=1
export FLASK_ENV=development
poetry run flask run    # serve app using flask's server

Frontend

Production:

yarn run build

Development:

yarn run start