Bing Wallpaper (currently MacOS only)

Downloads daily Bing images and sets them as desktop wallpaper

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Disclaimer

Please do not download or use any image that violates its copyright terms.

Installation

Recommended option:

git clone https://github.com/alexbigkid/abk_bwp
cd abk_bwp

or

pip install abk_bwp

Usage

make install
make bwp

Configuring the app

Please see the file abk_bwp/config/bwp_config.toml file. There are some setting you might want to change. Like the image size, which should ideally correspond to the size of your display. In the config file you will find also detailed explanation, what exactly each configuration item is for.

For Uploading the images to TV please see the abk_bwp/config/ftv_data.toml configuration.

Installing python dependencies:

Installing with pyenv + virtual environment (Recommended)

If you are like me and don't want to mix your python packages, you want to create python virtual environment before installing dependencies. I use pyenv tool for that. Here are the steps on MacOS:

1. install brew. Google for it if you don't have it already
2. brew install pyenv - will install pyenv tool
3. brew install pyenv-virtualenv - installs virtualenv pyenv version
4. pyenv versions - will show you currently installed python versions and virtual envs on your system
5. pyenv install --list - will show you all available python versions you could install.
6. pyenv install 3.11.0 - installs python 3.8.9 version
7. pyenv virtualenv 3.11.0 bwp - creates virtual environment [bing wall paper] with python 3.11.0
8. cd <your_project_dir> - change into your project directory e.g.: cd abk_bwp
9. pyenv local bwp - setting the current directory to use [bwp] virtual environment
10. make install - will install all needed python dependency packages into [bwp] virtual environment.
11. make bwp - will download bing image and add title to the image

Installing without pyenv or python virtual environment. Note: the app does not run with python 2.7

If it is too many steps for you and just want to get it working "quick and dirty". Warning: there might be some python packages, which might collide with already installed packages.

1. cd abk_bwp - change to the project directory
2. make install - to install python dependency packages in default location
3. make bwp - will download bing image and add title to the image

Makefile rules

There are some Makefile rules, which are created for your convenience. For more help with rules type: make help Here are some described in the table

makefile rule	description
bwp	executes the abk_bwp program, which downloads Bing images and creates a desktop image
bwp_log	executes the abk_bwp program with logging into a file
bwp_trace	executes the abk_bwp program with traces in console
bwp_desktop_enable	executes the abk_bwp program, enables auto download (time configured in bwp_config.toml)
bwp_desktop_disable	executes the abk_bwp program, disables auto download (time configured in bwp_config.toml)
bwp_ftv_enable	WIP: executes the abk_bwp program, enables Samsung frame TV support (Not working yet)
bwp_ftv_disable	WIP: executes the abk_bwp program, disables Samsung frame TV support (Not working yet)
install	installs required packages
install_test	installs required packages for test
install_dev	installs required packages for development
test	runs test
test_v	runs test with verbose messaging
test_ff	runs test fast fail
test_vff	runs test fast fail with verbose messaging
test_1 <file.class.test>	runs a single test
coverage	runs test, produces coverage and displays it
clean	cleans some auto generated build files
settings	outputs current settings
help	outputs this info

Python tracing:

In order to debug python scripts, you could enable the traces in the logging.yaml file by changing levels from CRITICAL to DEBUG

Scheduler / plist tracing / Troubleshooting

The project contains com.abk.bingwallpaper_debug.sh.plist file, which can be used to debug scheduler problems.

1. Copy com.abk.bingwallpaper_debug.sh.plist to ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ directory.
2. change to directory: cd ~/Library/LaunchAgents
3. load the scheduler with: launchctl load -w com.abk.bingwallpaper_debug.sh.plist
4. start the job with: launchctl start com.abk.bingwallpaper_debug.sh
5. check the job run: launchctl list | grep com.abk.bingwallpaper_debug.sh if it return 0 the job ran successfully
6. the traces will be available in /tmp/com.abk.bingwallpaper_debug.sh.stderr and /tmp/com.abk.bingwallpaper_debug.sh.stdout
7. after troubleshooting don't forget to disable the job for the debug scheduler
8. execute following launchctl stop com.abk.bingwallpaper_debug.sh launchctl unload -w com.abk.bingwallpaper_debug.sh.plist
9. delete the debug file from ~/Library/LaunchAgents rm com.abk.bingwallpaper_debug.sh.plist in: ~/Library/LaunchAgents

App runs on:

• MacOS Ventura (local machine) / Python 3.11.5
• Linux Ubuntu 20.04 / Python 3.11.5
• Windows 10 / Python 3.11.5

Pipeline Unit Tests ran on:

• Linux latest / Python 3.8.x, 3.9.x, 3.10.x, 3.11.x
• MacOS latest / Python 3.8.x, 3.9.x, 3.10.x, 3.11.x
• Windows latest / Python 3.8.x, 3.9.x, 3.10.x, 3.11.x