PiDi Spotify

Pirate Display: Spotify Edition (Very, very beta)

This program has one mission: hook Raspotify to display track information and album art on a Pirate Audio board's LCD display

Beta Notice

Right now this software is very, very beta and the method for installing/running it is expected to change very drastically.

Don't follow these instructions unless you're prepared:

• for things to break horribly in future
• to have to uninstall everything (potentially a new Pi OS image) and reinstall again to get the fixed version

DO follow these instructions if:

• You like to live on the bleeding edge
• You wanna see this awesomeness in action
• You'd like to contribute to how this software shapes up, find bugs and help me make it easier for future users to install and use

Note: PiDi Spotify and Mopidy cannot co-exist, if you're using Mopidy make sure you shut it down before trying this:

sudo systemctl stop mopidy

Installing

Raspotify

You've got Raspotify set up, right? Yes? No? What do you mean no? Why are you even here? Go and install Raspotify and come back when you're ready!

Your Spotify CLIENT_ID and CLIENT_SECRET

Go to https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard and set up a new app. Grab your Client ID and Secret and keep them handy.

Remember your Client ID and Client Secret, you will need to export these into environment variables like so before running PiDi Spotify:

export SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID="YOUR CLIENT ID"
export SPOTIPY_CLIENT_SECRET="YOUR CLIENT SECRET"

PiDi Spotify

Enable SPI on your Raspberry Pi:

sudo raspi-config nonint do_spi 0

Install PiDi Spotify using git, best stick it in /home/pi so we're working from a common path for now:

cd /home/pi
git clone https://github.com/pimoroni/pidi-spotify
cd pidi-spotify
sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools python3-dev python3-pip libjpeg-dev libatlas-base-dev
pip3 install numpy spidev RPi.GPIO
sudo python3 setup.py install

Now edit Raspotify's config file:

sudo nano /etc/default/raspotify

You need to add --onevent 'pidi_spotify --hook' to the OPTIONS= section. My options look like this, but yours might vary:

OPTIONS="--device hw:1,0 --onevent 'pidi_spotify --hook'"

Now, re-start Raspotify so it knows to use the hook:

sudo systemctl restart raspotify

Finally run PiDi Spotify so Raspotify can talk to it:

export SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID="YOUR CLIENT ID"
export SPOTIPY_CLIENT_SECRET="YOUR CLIENT SECRET"
pidi_spotify

Running on boot

Crontab (eh, it works)

You can copy start.sh to /home/pi, edit it and add it to crontab using crontab -e and adding the line @reboot /home/pi/start.sh. Don't check your Client ID and Secret into GitHub!

Systemd (better)

Edit /etc/default/pidi-spotify and set client-id and client-secret like so:

client-id=your client id
client-secret=your client secret

Then copy the systemd service into place and enable it:

sudo cp pidi-spotify.service /etc/systemd/system/
sudo systemctl enable pidi-spotify