thejdlowe / prototype-like-my-coffee-scoreboard

Like My Coffee Scoreboard

by J.D. Lowe

I like my lovers like I like my coffee: open source

This is the software needed for the electron app that powers the Like My Coffee scoreboard! There are some requirements:

Hardware

1. A Raspberry Pi 3 or higher (I happened to have a 3 to spare; it SHOULD work without any issues otherwise?)
2. An X-Box 360 Scene It? Infrared Receiver and corresponding controllers

Software

1. Do your normal Pi updates/upgrades/whatever.
2. Install https://github.com/micolous/xbox360bb and follow the instructions there for Raspberry Pi (you do not need to download the kernel bits; these are part of the updates/upgrades from above)
3. Install nodejs, npm, joystick (for testing) and samba (for writing code on another computer if you want your Pi headless while developing) via apt-get install nodejs npm joystick samba
4. Run npm install electron in whatever folder you want the project to be in
5. Copy and paste the files from this repo into there and then run npm install again. Voila!

Hardships

1. This needs to be run as root. I know, it's ugly, but the Big Button drivers are legacy, and that's locked down like crazy, so you'll need sudo npm run to get it to detect.
   • This means that WebUSB by itself is not an option, as even when running with sudo it doesn't detect. It only detects with legacy drivers, so keep that in mind.
   • This is why xhost + is in the start script; this is required for it to have access.
2. You'll notice that electron is being run with --disable-gpu-compositing; this is not required if you have your Pi plugged into a monitor, but headless, there's a known issue with Electron.

Future thoughts

I'd love to get a newer Raspberry Pi; the original goal was to write this in Electron and React, but trying to install that on a Raspberry Pi 3 was too taxing. Perhaps when I have room in my budget! Mayhaps, even!

That's...that's it I believe!