Spotipi

Spotify player for distributed Raspberry Pi devices.

Installation

Assumption: You are using a Raspberry Pi 2 running the latest Raspbian OS (Debian). This is my setup & it works. Anything else you're on your own.

Pull down code

git clone https://github.com/drb/spotipi.git <target_dir>

Install Node.js if not already installed

sudo apt-get install curl

sudo curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup | sudo bash -

apt-get install -y nodejs

apt-get install -y build-essential

There is a better guide for this process here.

[optional... but important] Debian/Ubuntu needs alsa.h header file (ALSA backend is default option).

sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev

Install NPM packages

This loads all the prerequisites from package.json

cd <target_dir>

sudo npm install

Run Spotipi

node spotipi.js

Once the code initializes it will output a path you can connect to with a mobile device or browser. The default port is 3000.

Keep alive in background & starting/stopping

There are a few ways to do this - forever is an NPM module that will spawn an instance of the server in the background and restart it when the process inevitably crashes.

Install the module globally:

sudo npm install -g forever

Start instance:

Note: If you started the process earlier using node spotipi.js, kill it now; otherwise you won't be able to start it using forever.

forever start spotipi.js

Check instance is alive:

forever list - this will output the process - take a note of the pid's index that is listed between [parens] i.e. [0] spotipi.js

Kill instance:

forever stop <pid_index>