Setup on Raspberry Pi - brentvollebregt/monopoly-money GitHub Wiki

The following instructions are based off michaeljandrews/monopoly-money/wiki/Install-Monopoly-Money-on-a-Raspberry-Pi

Tested on the following hardware:

Raspberry Pi 4
32 Gb MicroSD card
Raspbian 10 Buster Lite (no desktop, command line only)

Run system updates

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

Install tar, git

sudo apt install tar
sudo apt install git

Install NodeJs

1. Determine system architecture (RPi4 is armv71)

   uname -m
   

2. Go to https://nodejs.org/en/download/
3. Copy the link for the Linux binary for the system above
4. Download the binary

   wget <the copied link>
   

5. Extract the files

   tar -xvf node-vXX.XX.X-linux-armvXl.tar.xz
   

6. Go to the folder

   cd node-vXX.XX.X-linux-armvXl
   

7. Copy everything to the system

   sudo cp -R * /usr/local/
   

8. Check that it is working

   node -v
   npm -v
   

Build Monopoly Money

1. clone the project into a new folder (don't use sudo for any of these commands)

   cd ~
   git clone https://github.com/brentvollebregt/monopoly-money.git
   cd monopoly-money
   

2. Install the dependencies (do not attempt to fix missing packages or vulnerabilities)

   npm install
   

3. Setup the client environment variables
   • 3.1. Change to the client directory

     cd /packages/client
     

   • 3.2. Create a new .env file

     sudo nano .env
     

   • 3.2. Add the following to the file, save and close:

     SERVER_ALLOWED_ORIGINS=<Insert IP address of RPi here>:5000
     

     For example: http://192.168.2.154:5000

4. Go back to the root project folder

   cd ~
   cd monopoly-money
   

5. Build the dependencies

   npm run build
   

Setup to run in the background

1. Install PM2

   sudo npm install pm2 -g
   

2. Change to the monopoly-money folder

   cd ~
   cd monopoly-money
   

3. Start a new process

   pm2 --name MM start npm -- start
   

4. List the running processes

   pm2 ps
   

5. Stopping the process

   pm2 delete MM
   

Play Monopoly!

Open in web browser: http://<Insert IP address of RPi here>:5000