Dal Segno Al Kodi

Scan a barcode and listen music.

Convert a barcode as scanned from compact disc (e.g. 082839056427) to a Discogs release (e.g. 41078), smurf it to a valid pattern such as an artist, year and title (e.g. DNA ft. SUZANNE VEGA (1990) Tom's Diner) to locate this on a locally attached network storage (e.g. \\nas\music\singles\DNA ft. SUZANNE VEGA (1990) Tom's Diner), and post that request to the API on a Kodi.

1. Connect a WS-14810 barcode scanner to a Raspberry Pi running a Bash shell.
   Append function (scan_barcode () { ... }) with a custom while ... ; do-loop to the ~/.bashrc-file, and call it with 'curl' at the end of the run command:

   # .bashrc
   scan_barcode () {
   while read -ra barcode; do
       "$@" "host-running-flask.domain.local:5000/scan/${barcode[@]}"
   done
   }
   scan_barcode 'curl'

2. Generate a Discogs personal access token (PAT).
   Write this token at the discogs.authorization.personal-access-token-property in the dal-segno-al-kodi.config.json file.

3. Enable Kodi's JSON RPC API.
   Set the Settings/Services/Control/Allow remote control via HTTP-switch, and specify an username and password.
   Write the username at the kodi.authorization.username-property in the dal-segno-al-kodi.config.json-file, and the unencrypted Base64 encoded username:password string at kodi.authorization.password.
   In addition, change the kodi.jsonrpc-uri-property in the config file to your Kodi server's address.

4. Run with flask.exe --app '.\dal-segno-al-kodi.py' run --reload --host 0.0.0.0

5. Scan and listen!