golliher/gotator

Provides fine control over the content of an information radiator.

gotator's Issues

Chrome control no longer works under Chrome 66

I tested mode 3 (chrome control) against Chrome 65 for mac. That works.

After upgrading to Chrome 66 for mac, chromed returns "timeout waiting for initial target" when trying to create a connection. I assume this is an upstream problem.

Gotator is inconsistent in using fmt.Println and log.Printf

Gotator could tell its version

Now that we have multiple binary releases, at least one person has wished for a feature to report the Gotator version.

Implementation thoughts:

• Should be available via a CLI flag. Viper should help with that.
• Gotator should announce its version when it starts up.

Calling pause via the API does not work

The API call is accepts, reports OK, but doesn't actually pause anything.

Gotator should be able to run in the background

gotator should be able to run in the background or as a daemon. Currently, that is not possible because of the way I have written the user input handling.

Gotator could have an option to enable/disable the API

In its current state, Gotator's API is both unauthenticated and unencrypted. Gotator could support a boolean flag to turn off the API. It would still be able to rotate content based on its config and program files. It just wouldn't be remotely controllable, but it would be more secure.

Gotator listening port could be configurable

Currently, the configuration systems allow a user to configure which Firefox Remote Control port to connect to. It does not currently allow its listening-port to be configured. That's hard -coded to port 8080.

Add configuration (both config file and CLI option) to allow the user to specify the port.

Gotator could support TLS

Currently, Gotator's API is unencrypted. Related to adding authentication would be to enhance Gotator to use TLS for it's API endpoints. If Go, I understand this is easier than you might assume if you come from other languages.

Gotator could support authentication

Currently, Gotator's API is wide open to anyone who has the end point.

Implement a simple authentication system. If I do this myself, I'll probably try using JWT first.

Gotator doesn't have tests

Any software project benefits from automation tests.

Add some for Gotator; re-architect as necessary to support being testable.

FF-Remote-Control (gotator dependency) does not work in Firefox Quantum

Investigate incorporating https://github.com/njasm/marionette_client as a possible replacement.

Gotator crashes when it encounters line in CSV it can't parse.