PongDog

Sniffing ID cards for Ping Pong data. PongDog is a simple system for tracking games of ping pong. By connecting two buttons to a RaspberryPi the score of each ping pong player is tracked by the players pressing the button corresponding to their side of the table each time they score a point. When the game is over (one player has enought points for a victory) the results are published to a server. This server keeps track of all games played and updates the players statistics and respective elo scores

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PongDog system overview

The PongDog game tracker runs locally on a RaspberryPi (or other computer) connected to a card reader and a set of buttons attached to a pingpong table. The PongDog game tracker waits for to cards to be tapped at the card reader. When two unique cards are detected

Setup

To get started, clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/jakvah/PongDog.git

Run with Docker

First, ensure that the DOCKER parameter is set to True in the PongDog config file.

Then, from the top directory in the repository, execute

docker-compose up -d

This will build the PongDog docker image. After running this command, allow up to 20 seconds for the docker image to setup the MySQL database. To ensure that the MySQL database is ready, run

docker logs gamedb

and ensure that the last or next to last row of the outputs reads:

[Note] mysqld: ready for connections.

Finally, to run the PongDog docker container, run

docker-compose run -d -p 5000:5000 app

The docker container should be up and running. The PongDog application can be accessed at localhost:5000

Run without Docker

To run without docker, ensure that the DOCKER parameter is set to False in the PongDog config file. Then, from the top directory execute

python -m pongdog

The PongDog application can be accessed at localhost:5000