/spotipi

Displays current song's cover art on 32x32 or 64x64 led matrix

Primary LanguagePythonMIT LicenseMIT

Spotipi

Overview

This project is to display information on 32x32 led matrix from the Spotify web api.

Getting Started

  • Create a new application within the Spotify developer dashboard
  • Edit the settings of the application within the dashboard.
  • First step is to ssh to your raspberry pi to clone the repository
  • Install python and pip
sudo apt install python3-pip
  • Next go ahead and change into the directory using
cd spotipi
  • Install the software:
cd spotipi
sudo bash setup.sh
  • Edit settings on the web app:
navigate to http://<raspberrypi_hostname or ip_address> within a web browser

Useful commands

Restart spotipi service

sudo service spotipi restart

Tail the logs

systemctl status spotipi -f

Alternative to the previous command

journalctl -u spotipi.service -f