1) Move to home directory

2) Copy project from Github with Subversion

2) Create new folder to host /dist files

3) Move /dist content to the new folder

1) Move to server directory

2) Install depedencies from package.json file 

After a while, a new directory named node-modules will appear including all dependencies modules.

Open config.json file 

and fill-out the settings, e.g.:

• logs-path: full path to the logs file.
• log_level: level of the logs as defined into winston package.
• meeting_room_name: meeting room name displayed on the screen 1.
• meeting_room_id: meeting room ID must fit with one of the IDs set into the server events_config.json file.
• company_name:  company name displayed on the screen 5.
• tcp_token: Baerer token required for incoming TCP message. Corresponds to tcp_device_token into config.json server file.
• udp_token: Baerer token required for UDP utilities messages (see below).
• tcp_listening_port: TCP port Corresponding to tcp_device_port into config.json server file.
• udp_listening_port: UDP listening port for UDP utilities (see below).
• event_server_ip: IP address of the server. If server is hosted on the same device, IP is 127.0.0.1. 
• event_server_port: listening ot the server corresponding to tcp_server_port into config.json server file.
• tcpip_server_token: Barer token required by the server to tcp_server_token into config.json server file.
• time_format: format of the time displayed on the screen. “24h” (hh:mm) or “12h” (hh:mmAM/PM).
• date_format: format of the date displayed on the screen. “FR” (dd/mm/yyyy) or “US” (mm/dd/yyyy).
• free_message: message to display when current booking area 2 and pending bookings list 4 are empty.
• next_title: label to displayed on 3.

1) Install PM2 as described here

2) Create and start a new process.

3) Save current PM2 process (required for auto-run at boot time)

Nice to know: 

List all running process

Restart process

Delete process

In order to avoid any disruption caused by memory leaks or unexpectable dysfunction (let’s talk about bugs !), I strongly recommand to automatically restart the display app every day during night. This can be perform by adding a cronjob. Then, open the crontab:

and add following similar line (e.g. restart display app every day at 5AM). It makes maybe more sense to restart the display app after the server.

A tiny API is provided in order to perform some technical operations. I recommend using postman.

Regarding TCP-IP, it can be address from http://display-ip-adress:tcpip_listening_port. Don’t forget to add the Bearer Token as defined into the config.json file (tcpip_token).

Details are commented into the CMain.ts file (check sources).

This step is mandatory only if you have expected to update the source files (bug fixing, improvement, etc.). It requires typescript command (see how to install here).

Again, Raspberry Zero W is definitly not the right device to manage development operations, as typescript compilation which requires processor and memory resources. I rather recommand to use a Raspberry pi B+.

1) Move to home directory

2) copy source files from Github with Subversion

3) rename folder

4) move to the source folder

5) Install depedencies from package.json file

After a while, a new directory named node-modules will appear including all dependencies modules.

6) compile project in order to initialize /dist folder. Move to the source folder and run tsc command:

7) eventually, create and set config.json as described above. this file must be placed into the new /dist folder.