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

[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!!!