Spotify / music player

[Joabutt]

Hi! I managed to combine the spotify developers api with the UsbPCMonitor 3.5" screen, allowing me to display real time music playing with a progress bar. I did this through the lcd_comm_rev_a library, and it works like a charm.

Setup instructions:

1. Clone the base repo
   $ git clone https://github.com/mathoudebine/turing-smart-screen-python
2. Install the necessary libraries with $ pip install -r requirements.txt and $ pip install requests spotipy
3. Copy the code from this Gist and put it in the base directory of the cloned repo
4. Go to Spotify Developer Dashboard and create a new app
5. Give the app a name and description, and set the redirect URI to your desired URI, I usually just set it to http://127.0.0.1:8888/callback as a default, but it doesn't really matter because it is not being used in this case
6. Then under the Which API/SDKs are you planning to use section, tick the Web API
7. Then comply to the Terms of service and create your app
8. Copy the Client Secret, Client ID and the redirect URI then put it into the code
9. Run the code and Enjoy!

If you have any issues/questions, feel free to contact me on discord @Joabutt or drop me an email at me@joabl.ee

[abid112]

That’s awesome! Can we get the landscape version as well, please? My screen is inside the PC Case and in landscape mode.

Thanks, mate!

[Joabutt]

@abid112, Hi, yes! I have made a landscape version, but it is a little crammed due to the aspect ratio. I have tried my best to optimize the space usage, do tweak the code if you wish to!

code: https://gist.github.com/Joabutt/07037f1ac2a779a4b7f9e02bbeab78d6

p.s. if you run the code and the screen doesnt show anything, try changing the lcd_comm_rev version

[pjosalgado]

@abid112, Hi, yes! I have made a landscape version, but it is a little crammed due to the aspect ratio. I have tried my best to optimize the space usage, do tweak the code if you wish to!

code: https://gist.github.com/Joabutt/07037f1ac2a779a4b7f9e02bbeab78d6

p.s. if you run the code and the screen doesnt show anything, try changing the lcd_comm_rev version

Thanks for sharing the code!!
I was able to do some tweaks to something close to what I was looking for.

Here are some changes I made:

• Replaced the Spotify API with calls to MPRIS via DBus, this way, it integrates with the Operating System to retrieve the currently media being played. Now doesn't matter the site, it shows everything, including local files and videos.
• Album name added.
• Replaced the static "buttons" to a dynamic play/pause icon, and the current and total time of the media.
• Dynamic background color inspired by the cover album.

Code: https://gist.github.com/pjosalgado/f8ee298ea113c40b9e9f497499c70aa9

Tested on CachyOS.

Still have some ideas, probably will test in the following days.
Suggestions are welcome!

[seythegamer]

Hi!

Thats litteraly what i was looking for!

Can you explain step-by-step usage of your code?
Right now im using lastest turing-smart-screen-python with no modifications, installed using official installation guide.

[pjosalgado]

Hi!

Thats litteraly what i was looking for!

Can you explain step-by-step usage of your code? Right now im using lastest turing-smart-screen-python with no modifications, installed using official installation guide.

Did you used the Manual Installation steps from https://github.com/mathoudebine/turing-smart-screen-python/wiki/System-monitor-%3A-how-to-start#linux-macos-windows-developer-mode-manual-installation ?

If so, just install the dbus-python dependency and download the Gist code to the same folder as the repo. Run the same way you execute the configure.py.

About the code, it's fairly structured in some functions that are not that hard to understand, so I imagine that is relatively easy to customize.

[seythegamer]

everything works amazing chief, thanks

[Alestu04]

Hi, sorry but can u be more precise at the first 3 steps because i'm not really good at this things ;-;. What do you mean by "repo" and where should i put those commands? Thank you and sorry for the trouble your work is great!!!

[seythegamer]

Hi, Do you think its possible for something similar working with YouTube Music?

[Joabutt]

im not sure exactly how youtube music operates, but from what ive searched it says that there is no official "now playing" api for youtube music, so im not sure if it could work.

[KMartins21]

Hi There, This is awesome. Would something like be possible for Plexamp?

[c0ldJS]

Plexamp doesn't offer a door into its activities but one could tap the source Plex server's API. For Python people, there's a shortcut in PlexAPI which includes a module for music/audio.

[emirmrkaljevic]

@seythegamer on the YouTube Music question: on Windows you don't need a service API. Windows exposes the current media session (title, artist, album art) for most players, including browsers, through the System Media Transport Controls, and the Python winrt bindings can read it. On Linux, MPRIS (as in the gist above) does the same.

For anyone on Windows who doesn't want to code it: I built PanelOS, a tray app for the 3.5" screens that shows the current Spotify song with cover without a developer app or login. Happy to share notes on the approach here.