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Home Pipeline Tools

Home Pipeline Tools is a small, home-grown pipeline toolkit that integrates with Kitsu for project tracking and provides a GUI (Task Manager + Publisher) to browse tasks, create project folders and publish files. Helping you keep everything in order and your database updated and your project going.

This README gives a practical overview of how the project is structured and how to run the tools locally.

Main Features

• Task Manager: A user interface to view, filter and manage kitsu tasks
• Publisher: A user interface to publish working and preview files into Kitsu and your designated storage

Pre-requisites

• This application assumes you already have a running Kitsu server either self-hosted or hosted by Kitsu.
• This application assumes you already have a File-tree setup on your project in kitsu and relies on it to work properly

Installation (Recommended Method)

This is the easiest way to get started. You will download a self-contained application that runs without installing or any other dependencies.

1. Go to the Releases Page on this repository.
2. Download the latest .zip file (e.g., KitsuHomeStudioTools-v1.0.0-windows.zip).
3. Unzip the entire folder to a location on your computer.
4. Follow the Configuration steps below.
5. Run the application by double-clicking the .exe file (e.g., run_task_manager.exe).

Usage

• Simply run the main executable (e.g. run_task_manager.exe)
• In the gui insert the url for your Kitsu server
• Using your pre-set user and password hit login

Development (Running from source)

If you want to run or contribute to the development, you can run the tool from the source code.

1. Clone the repository

git clone [https://github.com/hesmoar/KitsuHomeStudioTools.git](https://github.com/hesmoar/KitsuHomeStudioTools.git)
cd KitsuHomeStudioTools

2. Create Virtual environment

3. Activate the virtual environment

4. Install dependencies

5. Run the application

Notes

• The GUI expects the Kitsu server URL and credentials to be configured/login performed before calling API-dependent functions (some earlier code tried to call Kitsu while not logged in and will fail to resolve a default placeholder host).
• Use project codes (short names) for folder creation; the get_project_code helper returns a mapping used by the directory creation tooling.

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Roadmap

1. Software integration
   • DaVinci Resolve
   • Blender
2. Multiple database support
   • Flow (Shotgrid, Shotgun forever!)
   • Ftrack

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.