PixelArt x Spotify

Show the actual Album Cover of your Spotify Connect receiver on your Pixoo64 Pixel Display.

Requirements

• A working Raspotify receiver device with ubuntu
• A Pixoo64 Pixel Display
• A Spotify Development Account (free)
• Python

Installation

1. Install Raspotify on your receiver device (e.g. RPi3).

sudo apt-get -y install curl && curl -sL https://dtcooper.github.io/raspotify/install.sh | sh

2. Clone the repo into the Raspotify receiver device (e.g. RPi3) under /usr/bin/{Repository-Folder}.

cd /usr/bin
sudo git clone https://github.com/Pfleiderer-Adrian/PixelArt_x_Spotify

3. Create a virtual enviroment and install the requirements.

cd /usr/bin/PixelArt_x_Spotify
sudo python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
sudo /usr/bin/PixelArt_x_Spotify/env/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Make launcher.sh and main.py executabel

cd /usr/bin/PixelArt_x_Spotify
sudo chmod +x launcher.sh
sudo chmod +x main.py

5. Edit the config.py file in the repo folder.

config = {
    "SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID": 'your_spotify_client_id',
    "SPOTIPY_CLIENT_SECRET": 'your_spotify_client_secret',
    "PIXOO_IP": "your_static_pixoo_ip",
}

The first two entrys are the API credentials from your Spotify app. Therefore create a spotify development account and register your app for api access (both free). The PIXOO_IP is your static IP for your pixoo64 device in your network. You find the pixoo64-IP in your router admin center. Maybe you must make the ip static in your router settings.

6. Install tkinter for the pixoo libary.

sudo apt-get install python3-tk

7. Add the following at the end of your respotfy-config in /etc/raspotify/conf:

LIBRESPOT_ONEVENT="/usr/bin/PixelArt_x_Spotify/launcher.sh"

8. Restart Raspotify

sudo systemctl restart raspotify.service

Troubleshooting

Check the Raspotify logs for crashes.

sudo journalctl -u raspotify -b