Spotipi

Overview

This project is to display information on 32x32 led matrix from the Spotify web api.

Getting Started

• Create a new application within the Spotify developer dashboard
  
• Edit the settings of the application within the dashboard.
  • Set the redirect uri to any local url such as http://127.0.0.1/callback
• First step is to ssh to your raspberry pi to clone the repository

git clone  https://github.com/ryanwa18/spotipi.git

• Next go ahead and change into the directory using

cd spotipi

• Run the generate token script and enter the prompted spotify credentials using

bash generate-token.sh

• This will generate a file named .cache which will be used for authentication

  • A url will show up in the terminal window and you must copy this into your own web broswer
  • The url will redirect you to another url and you need to copy/paste this in the terminal when prompted.

• Install the software:
  

cd spotipi
sudo bash setup.sh

• Edit settings on the web app:
  

navigate to http://<raspberrypi_hostname or ip_address> within a web browser

Final Product