metarace 2.1.25

Cyclesport results and timing toolkit

metarace

A collection of Python modules to assist with cycle race timekeeping and official result preparation. Version 2 of Metarace is a re-write for Python 3 which removes static pyGTK/GLib dependencies.

Desktop applications are available separately, and may be installed using a shared installation script metarace-install.

Support

• Signal Group: metarace
• Issues: issues

Requirements

System requirements:

• Python >= 3.11
• Cairo
• Pango
• Rsvg
• Python gi
• Python gi-cairo
• tex-gyre (optional, recommended)
• evince (optional, recommended)
• fonts-noto (optional)
• mosquitto (optional)
• libreoffice (optional)

Python packages:

• requests: HTTP requests
• pyserial: Serial port interface
• python-dateutil: Generic date/time string parser
• xlsxwriter: XLSX file writer
• paho-mqtt: MQTT interface
• graphemeu: Unicode grapheme support

Manual Installation

Install minimum system requirements with apt:

$ sudo apt install python3-venv python3-pip python3-cairo python3-gi python3-gi-cairo gir1.2-rsvg-2.0 gir1.2-pango-1.0

Create a virtualenv for metarace and associated packages:

$ python3 -m venv --system-site-packages venv

Install packages with pip:

$ ./venv/bin/pip install metarace