WBOR's On-Air-Studio Dashboard

• An in-studio dashboard for WBOR 91.1 FM, Bowdoin College's student-run radio station.
• Runs on a little CRT monitor in the on-air studio.
• Want to contribute, or have any questions? Get in touch here.

Demo.mp4

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Dependencies

• homebrew (macOS):

brew install rust sdl2 sdl2_image sdl2_ttf

• dnf (Fedora):

sudo dnf install rust cargo SDL2-devel SDL2_image-devel SDL2_ttf-devel

• apt-get (Raspbian):

# Doing this just because `apt-get` only has an outdated version of the toolchain:
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev libsdl2-image-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev

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Build and Run

Assuming you've cloned the project and installed the required dependencies, run the following from the project's root folder:

cargo run --release

Or, with logging enabled:

RUST_LOG=wbor_studio_dashboard cargo run --release

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Themes

The current themes are:

• standard
• barebones
• retro_room

You can change the theme in app_config.json. If you want to make a new theme, start off by modifying standard. Make sure that it doesn't differ too much by running diff standard.rs <YOUR_NEW_THEME.rs> --color=auto.

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Scripts

• To delete recent Twilio messages, use delete_twilio_msgs.sh. Change the number of messages to delete in the script, and it'll delete that number of messages one-by-one.
• To send surprises to the dashboard (images that appear for a certain amount of time, with certain chances of appearing at any second), use trigger_surprise.sh. Just pass it the name of a surprise that you've set up in dashboard.rs, and it'll send it over a local socket which the dashboard reads from.

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TODO