jb10181/spotify_zero

Spotify Connect With Display For Raspberry Pi With Pirate Audio

Installs raspotify and displays cover art and song information for the currently playing song on a Pirate Audio display.

Table of Contents

• About the Project
• Prerequisites
• Installation
• Contributing
• License
• Contact
• Acknowledgements

About The Project

I wrote some code to display album cover art and song information for the currently playing song on a Pirate Audio display. This code is to be used in conjunction with raspotify (a project I have no affiliation with). The key advantage of this over mopidy is that my solution is lightweight, which results in better performance, especially, on a raspberry pi zero. Text that is too long to fit on the display scrolls, as can be seen in the two still images above.

Prerequisites

The Python packages required to run

spotipy

os

time

Pillow

requests

io

ST7789

Installation

1. Attach pirate audio to raspberry pi (I used pirate audio with headphone out and a raspberry pi zero)

2. Connect raspberry pi to internet and ssh onto it (or control with GUI)

3. Set a new password

passwd

4. Install all updates

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

5. Install the required apt packages

sudo apt-get install python3-rpi.gpio python3-spidev python3-pip python3-pil python3-numpy
sudo apt install libopenjp2-7 libopenjp2-7-dev libopenjp2-tools libatlas-base-dev

6. Install the required Python packages

pip install st7789 numpy Pillow spotipy os time requests io

7. Set the following parameters at the bottom of the /boot/config.txt file

sudo vi /boot/config.txt

dtparam=audio=off

dtoverlay=hifiberry-dac gpio=25=op,dh"

8. Install raspotify

curl -sL https://dtcooper.github.io/raspotify/install.sh | sh

9. Download this project and enter the project directory

git clone https://github.com/jb10181/spotify_zero
cd spotify_zero

10. Create your .credentials file

spotify_pirate_zero_create_credentials.py

If you are not using a GUI to control the raspberry pi, you should run this command on another computer that has a GUI and copy the .credentials file into the spotify_zero directory of the raspberry pi afterwards.

11. Set up the systemd service to run automatically and reboot

sudo cp spotify_pirate.service /lib/systemd/system/spotify_pirate.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable spotify_pirate.service
sudo reboot now

Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to be learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.

Contact

James Burch - LinkedIn

Project Link: https://github.com/jb10181/spotify_zero

Acknowledgements

• Raspotify
• Pirate Audio
• README template