statyk/deadstream

A time machine to play GD tapes from archive.org

The Grateful Dead Time Machine

A raspberry pi controller with year, month, date knobs to stream shows from audio collections on archive.org.

It also contains a simple, command-line-interface to the collections on archive.org, which can be used to see what's available and play a given tape.

A Simple example for the python script:

import os
from timemachine import GD

metadata_path = os.path.join(GD.ROOT_DIR,'metadata')
a = GD.GDArchive(metadata_path)

#dates = a.dates  # shows a list of all dates on which there are tapes.

tape = a.best_tape('1979-11-02')

player = GD.GDPlayer(tape)

player.play()

player.next()

player.seek(100)

player.pause()

player.play()

player.stop()

Install the module

pip3 install .

or

python3 setup.py install

Uninstall the module

pip3 uninstall timemachine

Build without installing

This will put the module in build/lib.

python3 setup.py build

Run unit tests

To be able to run unit tests, install the requirements.

pip3 install -r requirements

Run tests with pytest

python3 -m pytest

Run tests with tox

Using tox will test the whole build pipeline using setup.py and run the unit tests using pytest.

tox

Upgrading the software

About the code

The code was developed by Steve Eichblatt, with key guidance from Derek Wisong.