/spotipy-display

Raspberry Pi-powered display to view and control Spotify playback

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Spotipy Display

Raspberry Pi-powered display to view and control Spotify playback.

Features:

  • View current playing song title and artist, liked status
  • Play / Pause
  • Like / Unlike
  • Previous / Next song

spotipy-display

Hardware

Setup

Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/jedclarin/spotipy-display

Configure Raspberry Pi

Turn on SPI after attaching e-paper display to Pi via GPIO.

  1. Open Raspberry Pi config: sudo raspi-config
  2. Choose Interfacing Options -> SPI -> Yes Enable SPI interface
  3. Save config changes
  4. Reboot Pi: sudo reboot

Set up Spotify Developer Application

  1. Go to Spotify for Developers
  2. Log in / Make a spotify developer account
  3. Navigate to dashboard and create a new application
  4. Complete form, set Redirect URI to: http://localhost
  5. Select Web API
  6. Save app
  7. Go to app settings
  8. Copy Client ID and Client Secret

Install dependencies

  1. Open terminal in folder: cd spotipy-display
  2. Create a .env file based on .env.example with your Spotify Developer Application client ID and secret
  3. Set up virtualenv: python3 -m venv --system-site-packages venv
  4. Activate virtualenv: source venv/bin/activate
  5. Install dependencies: pip3 install python-dotenv RPi.GPIO Pillow spotipy numpy

Test spotipy-display

Before configuring spotipy-display to run automatically, test it first.

  1. Activate virtualenv: source venv/bin/activate
  2. Run: python3 main.py
  3. After confirming that it works quit with CTRL+C

Run on reboot

  1. Add systemctl service: sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/spotipy.service 
    # This assumes your username is also `pi`. Update accordingly.
# /etc/systemd/system/spotipy.service
[Unit]
Description=Spotipy Service
After=network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/home/pi/spotipy-display/venv/bin/python3 /home/pi/spotipy-display/main.py
WorkingDirectory=/home/pi/spotipy-display
Restart=always
User=pi
Group=pi
Environment=PATH=/home/pi/spotipy-display/venv/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
  2. Reload systemctl: sudo systemctl daemon-reload
  3. Enable spotipy-display: sudo systemctl enable spotipy.service
  4. Start spotipy-display: sudo systemctl start spotipy.service
  5. Monitor logs: sudo journalctl -fu spotipy.service
  6. Reboot Pi to ensure everything works :)