conorhennessy / spotify-oled-control

Spotify now playing on an OLED screen with added controls

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spotify-oled-control's Issues

Skip button feature

Complete crash if there is no playback on run

Mute icon feature

There should be a mute icon if playback is currently muted.

This icon should look exactly alike to the one found in Spotify desktop and should be placed in the same position of the pause icon

The pause icon should have priority to be shown over the mute icon.

Add control to skip or go back on a track

Make use of this switch to allow for control to skip or go back on a track. Just like media keys.

Improve "loading" screen

Currently, the word loading appears off-centre.

A nice loading scroll wheel or similar should display and would look much better!

Add volume controls

Use a switch like this to allow for Spotify volume control.

SSD1322 OLED

I'm trying to get this working with a 256x64 OLED using SSD1322 SPI. I can't seem to get it to work I have the following edited.

# from luma.core.interface.serial import i2c
from luma.core.interface.serial import spi
from luma.core.render import canvas
from luma.oled.device import ssd1322

from RPi import GPIO


# clk = 17
# dt = 18
# btn = 27

# GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)
# GPIO.setup(clk, GPIO.IN, pull_up_down=GPIO.PUD_UP)
# GPIO.setup(dt, GPIO.IN, pull_up_down=GPIO.PUD_UP)
# GPIO.setup(btn, GPIO.IN, pull_up_down=GPIO.PUD_UP)

# clkLastState = GPIO.input(clk)

# substitute spi(device=0, port=0) below if using that interface
serial = spi(device=0, port=0)
# substitute ssd1331(...) or sh1106(...) below if using that device
device = ssd1322(serial)
Width = 256
Height = 64

But every time I run it, I get these errors (forgive me I don't code, just a tinkerer):

pi@oled-pi:~/Spotify-OLED-Control $ ./Spotify_OLED_Control.py
/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/luma/core/interface/serial.py:206: RuntimeWarning: This channel is already in use, continuing anyway.  Use GPIO.setwarnings(False) to disable warnings.
  self._gpio.setup(pin, self._gpio.OUT)
Now playing Bad Things (with Camila Cabello) by Machine Gun Kelly from SpotifyPaused
Process Process-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/multiprocessing/process.py", line 315, in _bootstrap
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/multiprocessing/process.py", line 108, in run
    self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
  File "/home/pi/Spotify-OLED-Control/./Spotify_OLED_Control.py", line 113, in run
    track_w, self.h = draw.textsize(self.track, font=self.track_font)
AttributeError: 'ImageDraw' object has no attribute 'textsize'

Any ideas?

Connection error through Spotipy : NewConnectionError

After a while of running a spotiypy NewConnectionError occurs.

Unsure as to why this occurs.

Reproducible by just letting the program run for a while.

Leads to the program crashing entirely & display 'freezing'.

Screen doesn't clear old text & shapes

If the previous song title or artist name was longer than the new one, it doesn't clear out the whole line.

also same with the pause icon, you can see the legs of it underneath the status bar after a pause and doesn't go away until you restart.

If nothing is playing, the previous track is shown

Could be improved by showing a placeholder or something after a while?

Script does always not run on startup

Ideas: something wrong with the services file?

Acceptance criteria: fix this and ensure that documentation is upto date for others to set up this startup job

Volume isn't adjusting correctly

The volume change is bouncing all over the place!

LCD (I2C) device not found : DeviceNotFoundError

After a while of running the following error occurs stating the LCD I2C device is not found on address: 0x3C

Unsure as to why this occurs.

Reproducible by just letting the program run for a while.

Leads to the program crashing entirely & display 'freezing'