raspberrypi-spotify

Show current playing song from Spotify on display connected to Raspberry Pi.
Currently hard-coded to 480x320 display, but you can easily edit it in .css and .js files!

Dependencies

• sdbus-c++ (libsdbus-c++-dev for building on Raspberry Pi OS)
• websocketpp (libwebsocketpp-dev for building on Raspberry Pi OS)

How it works?

Using DBus it connects to local Spotify app and subscribes to updates for title, artist and album artURL.
It opens WebSocket server on port 4831 from where you can get all this data.

What it returns?

title - current song title
artist - current song artist
album - current song album name
artURL - current song album art URL
spotifyStarted - returns "True" if spotify(d) application is started, "False" otherwise. Note that "True" or "False" passed as strings.
isPlaying - whether song in spotify(d) is playing. Note if spotifyd is discovered in spotify app on PC but song plays on PC then spotifyd will return that song NOT played (bc it's not playing in spotifyd).
gamemodeStarted - returns "True" if gamemode started. You can use it for not displaying spotify when playing games (and show some monitoring info instead).

How to build and run server?

git clone https://github.com/PolisanTheEasyNick/raspberrypi-spotify
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
./raspberrypi-spotify

For installing to system run: sudo make install
It will install binary to /usr/local/bin/raspberrypi-spotify and will create systemd service in /etc/systemd/user/rasp-spot.service.
For starting service on system boot you can use: systemctl --user enable --now rasp-spot

How to use with spotifyd?

Firstly, make sure that spotifyd builded with dbus_mpris feature flag.
Then just build and start raspberrypi-spotify on your Raspberry Pi.

How to see what i'm listening right now?

For displaying info just open src/web/index.html in any WebBrowser.

PiLED support

raspberrypi-spotify have a feature to get accent color from Spotify Album Art and send it to PiLED server.
BUT you need to manually config it:

1. Remove comments at CMakeLists.txt regarding defining PILED
2. Edit src/modules/ColorParser.cpp to set SHARED_SECRET; PiLED server ip and default color setting.