space-event-trace
Tracing service for TU Wien Spaceteam events.
This service is a special adaption of
Space Trace.
Getting started
Install Python3.8 (or higher), zbar, popper, libxml2
Install all dependencies with:
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
export FLASK_APP=space_trace FLASK_ENV=development
flask run
This launces a simple webserver which can only be accessed from the localhost.
Note: Don’t use this server in production, it is insecure and low
performance.
Deployment
How we deploy this app on Ubuntu.
Install the requirements with:
sudo apt -y install python3-venv python3-pip libzbar0 libxml2-dev libxmlsec1-dev libxmlsec1-openssl poppler-utils
Create a virtual env with:
python3 -m venv venv
Copy instance/config_example.toml to instance/config.toml and edit all
the fields in it.
Open space-event-trace.service and edit the username and all paths to the working
directory.
Start the systemd service with:
sudo cp space-event-trace.service /etc/systemd/system
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable space-event-trace.service
sudo systemctl start space-event-trace.service
The service should now be up and running ?
To stop the service run:
sudo systemctl stop space-event-trace.service
To update the service to a new version (commit) run:
git pull
sudo systemctl restart space-event-trace.service
