A homebrew project to retrieve pull request information from one or more GitHub repos, and reformat into a simple dashboard-style overview in HTML.
This is written with a Raspberry Pi Zero W plus small colour screen in mind, with the intention for it to sit underneath the main monitor and give an at-a-glance overview of the CI status checks for all active pull requests in a set of target repositories.
pip3 install airium flask pygithub toml
Place the following in /home/pi/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart
@xset s off
@xset -dpms
@xset s noblank
@chromium-browser --kiosk --disable-cache --disk-cache-dir=/dev/null --disk-cache-size=1 --app=http://localhost:5000
This will disable power management of the screen, prevent the screensaver from starting, and run the Chromium browser in kiosk mode, pointing it to the Flask server started by the pr-panel service.
Note that the following service script assumes that pr-panel is installed in /opt/pr-panel. If you have put is somewhere else, the pr-panel.service script needs to be modified accordingly.
Copy the script in the pr-panel/services directory to /lib/systemd/system/:
sudo cp services/pr-panel.service /lib/systemd/system/
The pr-panel.service launches the python script to retrieve and serve the PR data (pr-panel.service). The script run by the service also auto-updates from the GitHub repo when it starts, to ensure that the code is the latest version available.
sudo systemctl enable pr-panel
A reboot should set everything up.