If you've found something that does not work or if you have an idea for an improvement or new things which you would find useful, feel free to open a request on the [issue tracker](https://github.com/grocy/grocy/issues) here.
Please don't send me private messages regarding grocy help. I check the issue tracker and the subreddit pretty much daily, but don't provide grocy support beyond that.
A household needs to be managed. I did this so far (almost 10 years) with my first self written software (a C# Windows forms application) and with a bunch of Excel sheets. The software is a pain to use and Excel is Excel. So I searched for and tried different things for a (very) long time, nothing 100 % fitted, so this is my aim for a "complete household management"-thing. ERP your fridge!
> Checkout [grocy-desktop](https://github.com/grocy/grocy-desktop), if you want to run grocy without having to manage a webserver just like a normal (Windows) desktop application.
> Directly download the [latest release](https://releases.grocy.info/latest-desktop) - the installation is nothing more than just clicking 2 times "next".
- However, I don't really care about supporting old runtime stuff, currently everything is only tested against (means 100 % works with) PHP 7.4 with SQLite 3.27.2
Alternatively clone this repository (the `release` branch always references the latest released version, or checkout the latest tagged revision) and install Composer and Yarn dependencies manually.
See [grocy/grocy-docker](https://github.com/grocy/grocy-docker) or [linuxserver/docker-grocy](https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-grocy) for instructions.
Just overwrite everything with the latest release while keeping the `data` directory, check `config-dist.php` for new configuration options and add them to your `data/config.php` where appropriate (the default values from `config-dist.php` will be used for not in `data/config.php` defined settings). Just to be sure, please empty `data/viewcache`.
If you run grocy on Linux, there is also `update.sh` (remember to make the script executable (`chmod +x update.sh`) and ensure that you have `unzip` installed) which does exactly this and additionally creates a backup (`.tgz` archive) of the current installation in `data/backups` (backups older than 60 days will be deleted during the update).
(The default language can be set in `data/config.php`, e. g. `Setting('DEFAULT_LOCALE', 'it');` and there is also a user setting (see the user settings page) to set a different language per user).
The [pre-release demo](https://demo-prerelease.grocy.info) is available for any translation which is at least 70 % complete and will pull the translations from Transifex 10 minutes past every hour, so you can have a kind of instant preview of your contributed translations. Thank you!
Some fields (with a barcode icon above) also allow to select a value by scanning a barcode. It works best when your barcode reader prefixes every barcode with a letter which is normally not part of a item name (I use a `$`) and sends a `TAB` after a scan.
Additionally it's also possible to use your device camera to scan a barcode by using the camera button on the right side of the corresponding field (powered by [Quagga2](https://github.com/ericblade/quagga2), totally offline / client-side camera stream processing, please note due to browser security restrictions, this only works when serving grocy via a secure connection (`https://`)). Quick video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5YH6IJFnfc
_My personal recommendation: Use a USB barcode laser scanner. They are cheap and work 1000 % better, faster, under any lighting condition and from any angle._
_Please note: Database migrations are supposed to work between releases, not between every commit. If you want to run the current `master` branch (which is the development version), however, you need to handle that (and maybe more) yourself._
If you don't use certain feature sets of grocy (for example if you don't need "Chores"), there are feature flags per major feature set to hide/disable the related UI elements (see `config-dist.php`)
When the `MODE` setting is set to `dev`, `demo` or `prerelease`, the application will work in a demo mode which means authentication is disabled and some demo data will be generated during the database schema migration.
When the file `embedded.txt` exists, it must contain a valid and writable path which will be used as the data directory instead of `data` and authentication will be disabled (used in [grocy-desktop](https://github.com/grocy/grocy-desktop)).
In embedded mode, settings can be overridden by text files in `data/settingoverrides`, the file name must be `<SettingName>.txt` (e. g. `BASE_URL.txt`) and the content must be the setting value (normally one single line).
Any help is more than appreciated. Feel free to pick any open unassigned issue and submit a pull request, but please leave a short comment or assign the issue yourself, to avoid working on the same thing.
