ci_screen

Native QT5 app for showing build status from one or multiple Jenkins CI servers. Uses PyQt5 for Python bindings.

Supports unauthenticated and HTTP basic auth using username & token. cc.xml must be available via these means (some Jenkins plugins allow granular access control to cc.xml).

Configuration

Configuration is handled in ci_screen.cfg.

general

poll_rate_seconds

Number of seconds that each CI server will be polled for updates. Default is 10 seconds.

rotation

Degrees of rotation. Used for rotating the screen for TVs or displays mounted sideways. This is a preferrable alternative to using /boot/config.txt on the Raspberry Pi, as that method causes severe performance issues. Default is 0 degrees.

holiday

When enabled, shows animations on certain days of the year provided that all jobs have passed. Default is true.

ci_servers

sections

A comma-seperated list of sections. Each name must match a section in the config file.

{ci_server_section}

Configuration for each individual server. Section name must match one listed under ci_servers->sections.

url

A required url of the Jenkins server (e.g., http://ci.server.com)

username

Username to be used if HTTP basic auth is required to access cc.xml.

token

Auth token to be used if HTTP basic auth is required to access cc.xml.

ci_servers Example

In this example, ci_screen is configured to pull from two CI servers. The first, ci.foo.com, exposes cc.xml without authentication. The second, ci.bar.net, has HTTP basic auth enabled and provides a username and token. Both foo and bar sections are defined using the sections property.

[ci_servers]
sections=foo,bar

[foo]
url=http://ci.foo.com

[bar]
url=https://ci.bar.net
username=myusername
token=1042081038133300184013931000109138

Prerequisites

QT5, sip, and PyQt5 must be installed.

OSX Install

Install QT5 using the installer from qt.io. Use homebrew to install python3, sip, and pyqt5. Alternatively you can build sip and pyqt from source.

Raspbian Install

To run fullscreen using eglfs (without the overhead of a windowing system) you can follow this gist.

Running

Install python requirements using pip install -r requirements.txt and run ./main.py.

Running tests

pip install tox and run tox. To run tests. Currently they target python 3.4 or 3.5.