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With pyDarts 1.2.0-beta14 comes a new dependancy : pyttsx3
Please install it or pyDarts will refuse to load :)

pip3 install pyttsx3

It's a beautifull lib that support cross-platform text-to-speech. Tell me if you feel it good !
Cheers :)

My baaaaaad !

Some of you where complaining about port detection that wasn't working properly at first start.

Since yesterday, I know that you were right !!

I corrected the bug and commited on 1.2.0beta9. Please update your code.

1.2.0 stable is on the road !

Hi all !

A new game variant is available in current dev source code : Teaming Cricket.
This variant of the Cricket Game is really cool. You play by team and you score only when your team-mate has closed the score like you.
Until one of the two team-mates has an open score, you will be scored as well in Cut-Throat mode.

Please test and give your feed-back :)
Enjoy !

Hi lads :)

pyDarts v1.1.0 is out ! Please chet it out and report any bug or compilation issue !

Dev will start for v1.2.0 so your suggesitons are welcome :)

Cheers !

Hi lads !

The new pyDarts will be coming in the next few days !

Please, if you have time, use the latest source code to debug the software !

If you have time as well, translate documentation in your native language or spread about pyDarts around you !

Cheers and have fun. We hope to see you in a network game one day !

Poilou & Diego

pyDarts 1.0.1 released !

It's a patched v1.0.0 to ensure compatibility with the next stable server version (1.1.0)

It's mandatory for you to update if you play over network !

pyDarts 1.1.0-beta1 released !

You can test new features and bug corrections with this release. If everything's fine, it will be published as the next stable version. Use it, test it, and report any problem.

Enjoy :)

Hi mates :)
I hope that your buttocks are properly tanned this summer (or winter, don't know where you're living), and that your elbow is hot as hell.

The next pyDarts release is coming (1.1.0), with interesting features !

Look at this one : because I wanted to boost up network games a bit, you can now receive a notification when a network game has been created on a server !
So you guyz hanged on your cell phone will be able to join a network game and have fun with friends all over the world !... read more

Hi darts players !

A new wiki is born for pyDarts. It has been updated, refreshed.

Why a new wiki ? Because the dokuwiki project I worked with is really great :

• no database
• a translation menu available
• easy to maintain
• and easy to use !

The goal is to translate the documentation, and obviously to grab more players for pyDarts !... read more

Hi cam'rads.

We are proud to announce the first complete, stable, reliable and polished version of pyDarts. We were waiting for this version for a long time ! No need for complicated settings to play over network nor to calibrate the board. That's the real improvement of this version.

Now we need to growth the community. So spread around yourself about how cool pyDarts is !

And do not forget the next First Sunday Contest the 7th of may at 18h French time. We need a "ceremony master" and anyone who already knows that he'll be here can comment to this message to announce himself.

Hi lads :)
Next first Sunday will be Sunday 2nd of april.
Starting at 18pm (Paris time) for 3 games.

Come and challenge Diego, he's waiting for you !

Work on v1.0 goes well, a very good news is that there will be binaries for this version. That means that pyDarts will need no more dependancies like pygame, pyserial to work.

Only the Arduino driver, download latest binary, double click, and here you are !... read more

Hi lads,
As you can see, pyDarts 1.0 will be ready for smartphones ;)
Nobody succeeded with phone port so far, but, with this beautiful responsible design, no excuse anymore to try !

Diego won again the last First Sunday Contest !
Scores for 2017 :
- Diego : 4
- Poilou : 1
- Andreas 1

Next match : Sunday 5th March at 6pm for 3 more games !
See you then !

Chins Up dudes !

We've never been so close to our goal... Hum... let say, the goal of Diego and I :)

pyDarts will be in a few days a fully fonctionnal and stable dart game.

I can remember with emotion when we where young ^^ and starting this project, our first child in other words :). We couldn't imagine such a dream would be possible. Playing at custom game at home, like we do in the crowded pubs. Get rid of those crappy home machines with red crystal liquid tiny screens, and play on a stylish and custom app with sounds and exciting games and options.... read more

Hi there,

Yesterday night we played sucessfully 3 games with 3 players located in 3 different places (Germany and two different cities in France :))

Diego won 2 of the 3 games but Poilou and Andreas were not too bad ! (lucky Diego...)

We give you an appointment for the next First Sunday, and I suggest to play one hour earlier for those who have "family things" ;) to do after !

So next First Sunday contest will be on Sunday 5th of February at 6pm.... read more

Hi pyDarts friends !

We wish you all that you deserve with this new year 2017 ;) That means a lot of great moments with your friends and family, preferably in real life :)

pyDarts is still a work in progress, but here are the main news of this new year :

• pyDarts has been confirmed working on a Raspberry Zero, thanks to the work of Andreas
• pyDarts is now translated in German (v1.0+), thanks to Andreas again !
• pyDarts has been translated to spanish thanks to Diego 2 as well !
• The famous Ho One get now an Double In / Double out option :) (v1.0+)
• New feature : if, for some reason, you cannot use buttons of your dart board, you can now simulate all the 3 buttons with the keyboard of your computer (escape, space bar and "b" keys)
• A package of pyDarts dependancies (zip file) has been tested and is now provided in the "files" section... read more

Thanks to the job of DiegoZeSecond, pyDarts is now translated to Spanish... (in the v1.0 branch and above)

We need now a Chinese (Mandarin) and a Hindi translator and we will get the 5 most common language in the world ;)

To change your pydarts language, just launche it with : pydarts.[bat|sh] --locale [fr_FR|es_ES|en_EN]

You may also change your language in your config file, like other options.

Hip hip Diego2 !... read more

Hi lads.
I take benefit of the update to announce what we are looking for :

• translators (any language, only french and english are available for now)
• MacOS testers
• More MS Windows feedback
• python3 testers on windows (require some skills)

If you can provide help for this, please contact us via "Discussion".

Cheers !

A minor bug has been found, but it was too tricky to avoid an update.
A typo has been found in the default Linux serial port : /dev/ttyACM0 which has been written with a O and not a Zero in a config file.

The consequence was that the new users (they are the most important ;)) has a bad config file at first use.

It is now corrected in branch 0.9 and branch 1.0

If your pydarts instance works, no need tu upgrade !... read more

Hi folks.
Because the cross-platform way of getting the screen resolution require wxPython, you have now to install it before using the actual dev version of pyDarts (v1.0.0alpha1)
Tested on windows 10 and Debian 8, operational !
C'mon boyz !
Darts up !

Hi folks ! v0.9 of pyDarts is out today !

Please update your version to this one NOW !!!

If you plan to play over network, please use this server : "maltot.no-ip.org" as game server since it will run a v0.9 server during the lifetime of this version (usual port : 5005)

Work has already started on v1.0 (check dev source) to provide a beautyfull new in-game layout !

Bug corrections will be provided for v0.9 until the next release. Please report them !... read more

Hi mates !
pyDarts v0.9 is really close to get out. If you want to work on translations, it is now time to look at the "locales" folder and to send me me your locale(s) files to labiloute@neuf.fr .

There will be no more phrases added before v0.9. Available translations are English and French for now, but we expect more languages !

Please update using git or downloading last release candidate (RC) zip file and have fun !

We have been really excited working on this new version of pydarts. With a major code refactoring (yes, again), and many bugs corrected, this version will be the most stable ever been out.

pydarts is now python 3 ready, which means that the project will exists when python 2 (the language used for creating pydarts) will reach end of life. Important for me, at least, and for everybody concerned by trying to keep this project alive as long as possible.... read more

Hi Cam'rads !

Juste to let you know that a patched version of pydarts v0.8 gets out yesterday. A bug in MS Windows network assistant was making this tool unusable and the default colorset was wrong in the default config file.

Another buzz is the portage of pydarts to python3. Hard work so far but close to the end ! The actual git version and the next will start to be fully compatible. I ran single games without any issue. Network game is still to debug, so please report bugs and be patient. Note that if you have no reason to switch to python3, or if you don't know what I am talking about, no worry... That's just about coding ! Full support for python3 will be ok for 0.9, this summer I'd say !... read more

Come on mates !
After two long years of development, bug hunt, code refactoring but also pints and fun, we are proud to announce a new version of the best open source darts project.

This new version is full of new features. First, network has been improved and the package is now provided with two network assistants. One for Linux, and another one for windows.

THere is also 3 hi score saved instead of only one previously. A patch will autmagically update your score file so nothing to do for you.... read more

Hi mates !
Many news for pyDarts this week ! A new packaged v0.8 which is tagged rc.1. Ready to use, maybe a few bugs, but usable. Work still in progress...

The new website contain now a vidéo explaning briefly what is pyDarts.
The possibility to order your board is now explained on the main page.
Check this out !
http://pydarts.sourceforge.net