THIS PROJECT IS CURRENTLY ON HOLD

As the performance is quite poor due to the entire thing being in Python, I've decided to rebuild it in Rust (yes, I know :P).

Development is underway here.

SpotifyWLED

A not-so-simple script to listen to the currently playing track on your Spotify account and forward it to a WLED (https://github.com/Aircoookie/WLED) LED matrix.

This was created as a fun little side project, please don't mind any less-than-stellar coding standards :)

(maybe I'll get around to refactoring it one day..)

Features

• Displays the album cover of your currently playing track
• Animations!
  • While playing, the cover pulses to the track's tempo
  • Also pulses slowly when the track is paused
  • and a lot more to come..

Usage

1. Setup an App in your Spotify dashboard (https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard)
2. Add your active Spotify account as a user of the App
3. Copy the Client ID and Client Secret into the client_id.conf and client_secret.conf files respectively
   1. alternatively, export them to environment variables SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID and SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET
4. Add your WLED device's IP address (with http://; add port, if applicable) to wled.conf file
5. Start the script using main.py
   1. Upon first run, it will prompt you to log in to Spotify and authorize the app. Follow the instructions.
6. Start playing music on the same Spotify account, and hit localhost:8081/start to start

Credits

• Pixelated Font used in the logo, by Skylar Park
• WLED, by Aircoookie
• Spotipy, by Paul Lamere