The Kai Kassie House

A landing page for the pi server

• Displays the local 7 day forecast using the weather.gov weather api
• Displays our Masters times
  • Stores times in a Mongo database
  • Show a progression graph using ChartJS
• Shows current Pokemon go events
  • Uses the CheckLeekDuck web scraper to fetch events from LeekDuck
  • Stores the events in a Mongo database
• Can be built as an RPM to install to RPM based Linux distributions
• Can also be build as a Debian package to install on debian based distributions
• RPMs and Deb packages will be built as a Linux Service and will run on boot and restart on failure
• Uses Docker and CentOS to build the RPM
• Uses Docker and Ubuntu to build the .deb
• The /tests directory contains a test index.ts file for testing the building, installing, running and unsinstalling the RPM and Debian packages as a service

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Building

• To build the application for local use:
  • Clone the application
  • Run npm i to install required dependencies
• To build an RPM to install on a Linux distribution:
  • Complete the steps listed above
  • Run the build.bat file
  • Once the RPM is build, it should be located in the /shared directory
• To build a Debain package:
  • Complete steps above to install dependencies
  • Run the buildDebian.bat file
  • Once the Deb is built, it should be located in the /shared directory

Installing

• To install the RPM:
  • Navigate to the directory containing the RPM package
  • Open a terminal
  • Run sudo dnf install kk-house-0.0.1-1.el8.noarch.rpm
• The above step should install the service as well as the required dependencies
• To confirm the service is running:
  • Run systemctl status kk-house

Running

• To run the aplication in dev mode:
  • Run npm run dev to run in dev mode or,
  • Run ts-node index.ts