# Varken
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Dutch for PIG. PIG is an Acronym for Plex/InfluxDB/Grafana
Varken is a standalone command-line utility to aggregate data
from the Plex ecosystem into InfluxDB. Examples use Grafana for a
frontend
Requirements:
* Python3.6+
* Python3-pip
## Quick Setup
1. Clone the repository `sudo git clone https://github.com/Boerderij/Varken.git /opt/Varken`
1. Follow the systemd install instructions located in `varken.systemd`
1. Create venv in project `cd /opt/Varken && /usr/bin/python3 -m venv varken-venv`
1. Install requirements `/opt/Varken/varken-venv/bin/python -m pip install -r requirements.txt`
1. Make a copy of `varken.example.ini` to `varken.ini` in the `data` folder
`cp /opt/Varken/data/varken.example.ini /opt/Varken/data/varken.ini`
1. Make the appropriate changes to `varken.ini`
ie.`nano /opt/Varken/data/varken.ini`
1. Make sure all the files have the appropriate permissions `sudo chown varken:varken -R /opt/Varken`
1. After completing the [getting started](http://docs.grafana.org/guides/getting_started/) portion of grafana, create your datasource for influxdb.
1. Install `grafana-cli plugins install grafana-worldmap-panel`
### Docker
Repo is included in [Boerderij/docker-Varken](https://github.com/Boerderij/docker-Varken)
Example
```
docker run -d \
--name=varken \
-v :/config \
-e PGID= -e PUID= \
boerderij/varken:nightly
```