John Stewart raspberry pi service

johnstewart.rb

# /home/pi/johnstewart.rb

require 'pp'

# monke
class String
  def naturalized
    scan(/[^\d\.]+|[\d\.]+/).collect { |f| f.match(/\d+(\.\d+)?/) ? f.to_f : f }
  end
end


episode_path = "/home/pi/Episodes"
counter = "/home/pi/.johnstewart"

`touch #{counter}`

episodes = Dir["#{episode_path}/*.mp4"].sort_by { |f| f.naturalized }

puts "total episodes: #{episodes.length}"


previous_episode = File.open(counter).read

puts "raw previous episode: #{previous_episode}"

previous_episode = episodes.first if previous_episode == "" or not episodes.include? previous_episode

puts "actual previous episode: #{previous_episode}"

episodes = episodes.drop_while { |episode| episode != previous_episode } if previous_episode != episodes.last

puts "episodes left: #{episodes.length}"

episodes.each do |episode|
  puts "writing #{episode} to counter..."
  File.write(counter, episode)
  puts "opening #{episode}..."
  `/usr/bin/omxplayer "#{episode}"`
end
# o

johnstewart.service

# /etc/systemd/system/johnstewart.service

[Unit]
Description=The Daily Show with John Stewart
Before=systemd-user-sessions.service

[Service]
TimeoutStartSec=0

# removed -r and -o hdmi
#ExecStart=/usr/bin/omxplayer --loop "/home/pi/Episodes/s4e1.mp4"
ExecStart=/usr/bin/ruby /home/pi/johnstewart.rb
Type=simple
User=pi

ExecStop=/usr/bin/killall omxplayer
User=pi

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target