https://github.com/remram44/video-buzzer
Couch gaming system for television shows. Buzz from your smartphone to pause the TV!
https://github.com/remram44/video-buzzer
buzzer couch-game game-show
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Couch gaming system for television shows. Buzz from your smartphone to pause the TV!
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/remram44/video-buzzer
- Owner: remram44
- License: bsd-3-clause
- Created: 2020-12-26T03:51:01.000Z (over 5 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2024-12-17T19:51:26.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-10-04T21:44:52.402Z (9 months ago)
- Topics: buzzer, couch-game, game-show
- Language: Rust
- Homepage: https://buzzer.remram.fr/
- Size: 385 KB
- Stars: 6
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 2
- Open Issues: 5
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE.txt
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README
Video Buzzer
============
This is a couch gaming system for television shows. It is a video player (that you should display on your TV) that allows players to buzz from their smartphone, which pauses the video.
The workflow is as follow:
* Navigate to the application on your smart TV (or a computer hooked to the TV)
* Load a local video file
* Each player enters the displayed link into their smartphone, then their name when prompted. They now see a buzzer button
* Play the video file. During the show, players can buzz, which displays their name on the TV and pauses the video so they can give their answer
* The video file resumes and the player finds out if they were right
Note that:
* If the answer given is incorrect, there is no possibility for an other player to give another (because the recorded show will state the correct answer)
* This requires players to be in the same room, the video is not streamed to each device, just played on the "host" device (TV)
* This works with any recorded game show, so long as it is not too interactive (because the recording won't respond to your actions)
Status
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* [x] Can play a video file
* [x] Can join a game and buzz
* [x] Buzzing stops the video, displays name of player
* [x] Allow full-screening video, make buzzer big
* [x] Make interface pretty and user-friendly
How to run
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You can use the app by going to https://buzzer.remram.fr/.
If you want to deploy it for yourself, build it using `cargo build --release` (you will need the [Rust compiler](https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install)). This will make an executable `target/release/video-buzzer` which you can run on your server.
To run the app in development mode, you can use `cargo run` (you will need the [Rust compiler](https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install)). In this mode, the HTML/CSS files are served from disk, allowing you to test changes without rebuilding. If you have [cargo-watch](https://crates.io/crates/cargo-watch) installed, you can use `cargo watch -w src -x run` to have the server rebuild and restart when you change the Rust sources.