Spotify Connect Web
A console client for Spotify Connect with a web frontend.
This is based on the implementation of Fornoth from https://github.com/Fornoth/spotify-connect-web modified so it uses the pyspotify-connect wrapper.
Installation
The package can be installed using pip:
pip install spotifyconnect-web
Dependencies
In order to install the dependencies the following packages must be available:
- build-essential
- libasound2-dev
- libffi-dev
- python-dev
Download the appropiate libspotify library for your architecture:
Instructions for debian based systems
Follow this instructions for Debian:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential libasound2-dev libffi-dev python-dev
For armv6-armel systems:
wget https://github.com/sashahilton00/spotify-connect-resources/raw/master/libs/armel/armv6/release-esdk-1.18.0-v1.18.0-g121b4b2b/libspotify_embedded_shared.so
For armv7-armhf systems (Raspeberry Pi 2+):
wget https://github.com/sashahilton00/spotify-connect-resources/raw/master/libs/armhf/armv7/release-esdk-1.20.0-v1.20.0-g594175d4/libspotify_embedded_shared.so
Finally:
sudo mv libspotify_embedded_shared.so /usr/lib
pip install spotifyconnect-web
Usage
usage: spotifyconnect-web [-h] [--cors CORS] [--debug] [--key KEY]
[--username USERNAME] [--password PASSWORD]
[--name NAME] [--bitrate {90,160,320}]
[--credentials CREDENTIALS]
[--audiosink {alsa,snapcast}] [--device DEVICE]
[--mixer MIXER] [--volmin {0-99}] [--volmax {1-100}]
Web interface for Spotify Connect
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--cors CORS enable CORS support for this host (for the web api).
Must be in the format <protocol>://<hostname>:<port>.
Port can be excluded if its 80 (http) or 443 (https).
Can be specified multiple times
--debug, -d enable libspotify_embedded/flask debug output
--key KEY, -k KEY path to spotify_appkey.key (can be obtained from
https://developer.spotify.com/my-account/keys )
--username USERNAME, -u USERNAME
your spotify username
--password PASSWORD, -p PASSWORD
your spotify password
--name NAME, -n NAME name that shows up in the spotify client
--bitrate {90,160,320}, -b {90,160,320}
Sets bitrate of alsa_sink stream (may not actually
work)
--credentials CREDENTIALS, -c CREDENTIALS
File to load and save credentials from/to
--audiosink {alsa,snapcast}, -a {alsa,snapcast}
output audio to alsa device or to Snapcast
--device DEVICE, -D DEVICE
alsa output device
--mixer MIXER, -m MIXER
alsa mixer name for volume control
--volmin {0-99}, -v {0-99}
minimum mixer volume (percentage)
--volmax {1-100}, -V {1-100}
maximum mixer volume (percentage)
The program requires a spotify premium account, and the spotify_appkey.key (the binary version) file needs to be obtained from https://developer.spotify.com/my-account/keys, and needs to placed in the python scripts directory, or have the path specified with the -k parameter.
Console usage
It's possible also to launch without the web server using the spotifyconnect command instead of spotifyconnect-web. A minimal web server is used instead to allow Zeroconf login.
Device parameter
The alsa output device name should be as returned by the pyalsaaudio command pcms. In order to check the possible valid options please execute on a Python console:
import alsaaudio
alsaaudio.pcms()
Web server
Server runs on port 4000
Logging in
There's a login button on the webpage to enter a username and password, or zeroconf (avahi) login can be used after executing the command avahi-publish-service TestConnect _spotify-connect._tcp 4000 VERSION=1.0 CPath=/login/_zeroconf (avahi-publish-service is in the avahi-utils package).
If you want to execute the above command as a service do the following:
cp ./daemons/avahi_service/spotifyconnect.service /etc/avahi/services/spotifyconnect.service
It will start to be working as soon the file is copied, there's no need to restart.
After logging in successfully, a blob is sent by Spotify and saved to disk (to credentials.json by default), and is used to login automatically on next startup.
Daemons
If you want to always run on startup follow this steps (for Raspeberry 1 with armel on chroot):
sudo cp ./daemons/chroot_sysvinit/spotify-connect /etc/init.d/spotify-connect
sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/spotify-connect
sudo update-rc.d spotify-connect defaults
