mic-night-app

Mic-night is a karaoke library visual interface written with nodejs, Angular, and lirc_node.

The application reads a song library and displays a simple list of artists and tracks. It uses lirc_node to send the tracks to a karaoke machine via infrared signals.

Installation

You'll need LIRC and nodejs installed and configured on the host machine. The LIRC remote .conf files must contain the appropriate codes for remote commands 0-9 using the namespaces of 0-9 (not KEY_0...KEY_9).

Installing mic-night:

git clone https://github.com/scottackerson/mic-night-app
cd mic-night-app
npm install
node server.js

Open ''http://server:3000/'' in a web browser.

The application has been tested using a Raspberry PI and an IR Transceiver (schematic can be found at Alex Bain's project site). Any environment that is capable of meeting the deployment requirements and can interface LIRC and an infrared transceiver should be able to host the applciation.

Data files

The song list is a json file (song.json) in /public/data with the following format:

[
	{ 
		"_id" : 2344345, 
		"track" : 1, 
		"artist" : "Sinatra", 
		"name" : "New York" 
	},
	{ 
		"_id" : 234322, 
		"track" : 2, 
		"artist" : "Dean Martin", 
		"name" : "Ain't That A Kick In The Head" 
	}
]

Note: _id is not used in this application and will be fixed at some point.

Some karaoke machines allow extracting the song library to a CSV. A csv->json converter will help create the JSON structure from your CSV.

Credits

Alex Bain has provided all inspiriation and tutorials for building and configuring a raspberry pi device as the machine that hosts the application in his Open Source Universal Remote project. He is also the author of lirc_node.