DiaShower/README.md

DiaShower

A chromecast ambient mode like Diashow

Setup and run

1. Make sure python is installed
2. Create a python VENV python -m venv DiaShower-venv
3. Activate the VENV . ./DiaShower-venv/bin/activate for :Linux or .\DiaShower-venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1 for Windows
4. Install dependencies pip install -r requirements.txt
5. Copy the config.json.example to `config.json.example' and edit it to fit your needs
6. Create the the images folder definded in the config and put your images in to it
7. Run with python server.py

Convert to binary (Advanced)

• Make sure the VENV is still activated

1. Install pyinstaller using pip install -U pyinstaller
2. Create binary using pyinstaller server-pyinstaller.spec
3. The binary is created in the dist folder, to use it create a config an the configured image folder here (or wherever you move the binary to)

• if you wish to cleanup you can remove the build (and if you copied the binary somware else the dist folder)
• Removing pyinstaller is safe you can use pip uninstall -y altgraph setuptools packaging pyinstaller-hooks-contrib pyinstaller pywin32-ctypes pefile