austra / subsonicslackbot

A Sinatra app for Slack integration with Subsonic.

SubsonicSlackBot

A Sinatra app for Slack integration with Subsonic. Typing keywords in Slack will create a Subsonic share for a given song or album. That share is sent to the channel. Optionally, if your Subsonic user is configured for Jukebox mode, it will begin to playback directly on the server's audio hardware

Usage

Enter your trigger with no arguments in Slack for usage.

To use Subsonic Bot try typing:

subsonic song (optional: song name)
subsonic album (optional: artist)
subsonic artist (optional: artist)

subsonic song Evolution

Deployment

Subsonic

Ensure your Subsonic server is accessible to the internet. I use a noip dynamic DNS address.

Create a new user. Allow the following permissions.

User is allowed to share files with anyone
User is allowed to play files in jukebox mode (optional)

Slack

Create an outgoing webhook. You will need the token for your environment variables. Use your Heroku address as the URL, with this endpoint:

https://some-cool-heroku-name-45711.herokuapp.com/subsonic

Running Locally

Configure environment variables, see below
$ bundle install
$ foreman start

Heroku

$ heroku create
$ git push heroku master
Configure environment variables, see below

Envirnment Variables

You'll need to setup your environment variables, either locally in .env or on Heroku.

VERSION=1.14.0                        # Subsonic Api Version, this should be fine
CLIENT=slack                          # A unique string identifying the client application.
USERNAME=your_username                # Subsonic username
PASSWORD=your_password                # Subsonic password, this gets tokenized and send to your subsonic server with the salt.
SUBSONIC_SERVER=http://127.0.0.1:4040 # I use noip dynamic DNS and put that address on Heroku.
SLACK_TOKEN=my_slack_token            # An outgoing webhook token from slack.

For Heroku, you can use the gui, or for each setting:

$ heroku config:set SLACK_TOKEN=my_slack_token