Pi Pair Project

Overview

This project allows 2 or more raspberry pis to communicate over the built-in wifi chip.
One pi is the host, and all other pis can join the network with the host pi.
SSID and password are set by the host pi. There are a variety of games that the pis share

Games

All games are built on udp protocol and use udp internet protocol
Here is the current list of games:

chat
tic-tac-toe
checkers
chess
Magic the Gathering (MTG)
Diplomacy
Panzer Leader

Concepts

Setup

Windows Setup

Install Python from here
Install pygame

Since python installs pip, Running this command (from a cmd window) will install pygame
pip install pygame

Install python library glob: pip install glob

(optional-not needed for testing) Pi Setup
MQTT-Used for communication there is a mosquitto directory which has a windows version. When you double click runMosquitto.bat from windows explorer, mosquitto.exe is run

Testing

Copy this project to windows with command: git clone http://www.github.com/Paulware/piPair (should take less than a minute)
Current project under test: uno, other projects may behave strangely :)
To test (in windows only):
- From windows explorer, double runMosquitto.bat. This will run MQTT server
- Open a cmd window (windows-r, cmd), navigate to pipair, type command: python uno.py
- Open a cmd window (windows-r, cmd), navigate to pipair, type command: python runMain.py
- From the runMain gui, select Join, Uno
- Separate the 2 pygame screens and play head to head