7 slow-TV art project (original) (raw)

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This is the source code to whereisdana.today, a 24/7 interactive slow-tv art project.

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How it all works

There are two main components: the chatbot itself, which listens for user commands, and a VLC-based video server, which manages the currently-playing video. They can be run on separate computers.

The general flow of information looks like this:

For more detail, check out Tripbot, the Adventure Robot.

Running tripbot locally

You can use docker-compose to run tripbot on your own machine. It is configured to spin up all of the dependencies for the project. A helper script (bin/devenv) has been created to make the process a little easier. For example:

(optional) create alias for devenv script

alias devenv="$(pwd)/bin/devenv"

spin up tripbot stack on current machine

devenv up --daemon

see running containers

devenv ps

see logs for a specific container

devenv logs tripbot

shut down everything

devenv down

Other Useful Docs

Infra

See infra/README.md for infra setup instructions.

Database

See db/README.md for database instructions.