pydeo is a web based media center. When completed, it will allow you to watch your movies or series episodes in streaming through an HTML5 video player (with a flash player fallback if HTML5 video is not possible) or directly on the computer on which pydeo is installed. Other features will include playing music or access complete movie description with trailer, list of actores and so on.

It is written in python using the bottle framework. Its main goals are to be simple, lightweight and easy to the eyes. Therefore, it should run on very low power platforms which makes it ideal for micro computers such as the Raspberry Pi.

pydeo uses twitter bootstrap and jquery to make the interface look nice and ease my pain in creating a beautiful UI (yeah, I'm not a designer guy, just a simple developer).

There is no release yet as I just started the project. My goal is to rapidly release a version with very few features and improve it over time.

First thing you need is python (version 3.3).

Once you have python, you need to install bottle. There are several way to achieve this. Here is the one I use and recommend:

• install virtualenv and pip if necessary
• set up a virtual environment: virtualenv -p python env (replace python with python3.3 if python 3.3 is not your default python version)
• activate it: source env/bin/activate
• install the required libraries through pip: pip install -r requirements.txt
• initialize the submodules: invoke init_submodules
• if you set up pydeo as described in basic configuration section, install cherrypy: pip install cherrypy otherwise, install the appropriate server backend corresponding to the one you set up in the settings.py file

Once done, follow the instructions from the settings section.

Run the following command to set default settings (should be fine for most users):

invoke setup

Then, simply run run.py:

python run.py

Open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:8080.

Run the following command to set default settings:

invoke setup

Then, adjust the settings as you like in pydeo/config/settings.py. Some of the possible server backends are the following:

• cherrypy
• gunicorn
• tornado
• waitress

The theory is that every server backend supported by the bottle framework that also supports python 3.3 should be fine. Have a look at bottle documentation for the full list. However, I haven't tested all of them of course.

Adjust sqlalchemy.url in alembic.ini file if you do not intend to use SQLite. If you modify this line, set the same database URL in pydeo/config/settings.py.

Supported databases are the ones supported by SQLAlchemy:

• Drizzle
• Firebird
• Informix
• Microsoft SQL Server
• MySQL
• Oracle
• PostgreSQL
• SQLite
• Sybase

Example URL for for MySQL: mysql://pydeo:pydeo_passwd@localhost/pydeo.

In any case, remember that unless your movie database contains hundreds of thousands of files, you should be good with SQLite.

You need to add you media files in the files folder of pydeo. It expects the following structure:

files
|__music
|    |__example_artist
|           |__example_album
|                 |__example_track.flac
|__movies
|    |__ example_movie.mkv
|__series
     |__example_serie
           |__season01
           |     |__episode01.mkv
           |__season02
                 |__ episode02.mkv

So add your movies in a movies folder and so on. If you do not want to copy all your media files in these directories, I suggest you use symbolic links (this is actually the way I would recommend).

Any contribution that improves pydeo is welcome. :) Feel free to contact me if you have any question or suggestion.

If you already have developed with the Ruby on Rails framework, you should then be familiar with how I organised the sources. If not but you are familiar with the MVC pattern, you should be fine too.

pydeo is based around a JSON REST API, available under /api URL. It makes it easy to fetch information for javascript processing. It also has the advantage of processing more stuff on the client side rather than on the server side.

If you want to submit patches, you need to make sure your changes pass the tests. Think about updating the tests if necessary. But before that, install the requirements to run the tests:

pip install -r requirements_dev.txt

Once done, make sure all tests pass by running invoke test. Make also sure your additions are conform to PEP8 by running invoke pep8.