Walkies

This is a tiny electron app that displays full screen and then quits after a timeout.

We use it at UoN to randomise the route for our afternoon walk.

We run it at 3pm via a cron job on a Raspberry Pi connected to a big TV on the wall. <3

Why do I care?

You may find it useful for randomly running a full screen electron app with a timeout.

Why is it ugly?

We thought it would be funny.

Running it

It's electron, so you can run it as follows:

• Download a built release for your OS from Releases
• Build or run from source:
  1. Have npm 5+
  2. Clone the repo
  3. Choose a way to build or run:
     • Build a release for your OS
       • We use electron-builder to build releases, so you can too!
       • It's a local dev dependency, so npm install
       • electron-builder
     • Run it from a global electron install
       • electron ./src
     • Run it with development dependencies:
       1. npm install
       2. npm start

Run on a schedule

Use your favourite scheduled task runner.

On Linux we do the following:

• crontab -e
• add cron task e.g.
  • 00 15 * * * export DISPLAY=:0 && /opt/walkies/walkies

Testing it

1. Have npm 5+
2. Clone the repo
3. npm install
4. npm test

Licensing

All source code herein is licensed under the MIT license, as per LICENSE.

comic.ttf

• Comic Sans Neue Bold
• This font is licensed under an SIL Open Font License
• The following files are included with this distribution as required by the license:
  • See SIL-License.txt for details
  • See OFL-FAQ.txt for Frequently Asked Questions
  • See FONTLOG.txt for detailed information on the Comic Neue Font Software