I miss going out. I miss dancing to loud music and not caring, and I've taken to dancing in the shower for a quick and easy dopamine boost.
discoShower is inspired in no small part by Jean-Ralphio and Tom Haverford's party button, and allows you to quickly and easily trigger a mini-disco in a room, which will make the Hue bulbs in that room flash various colours and play a specified Spotify playlist on a specified device.
I have discoShower running on a Pi Zero, which is also running an instance of spotifyd, and connected to a Bluetooth shower speaker, as I don't have a Spotify Connect device in my bathroom, but if you do you can do away with this.
You will need a config.ini file in the same directory as discoShower.py. the config file is set out as follows:
[DEFAULT]
useGpio = trueIfYouWantToUseAPhysicalButton
useLcd = trueIfYouHaveAnLcdScreen
buttonPin = gpioPinOfYourButton
nextUserButtonPin = gpioPinOfTheButtonToGetTheNextUser
ledPin = gpioPinOfYourLed
discoTime = defaultDiscoLengthInSeconds
useThreading = trueIfYouWantToBeAbleToSkipSongs
[spotify]
clientId = yourClientId
clientSecret = yourClientSecret
redirectUri = yourRedirectUri
scope = streaming user-read-playback-state
username = yourUsername
playlist = yourPlaylistUri
device = yourDeviceId
[hue]
bridgeIp = yourHueBridgeIp
groupName = yourGroupName
sceneName = yourSceneName
[users]
users = {
'userName1': 'spotifyPlaylistUri',
'userName2': 'spotifyPlaylistUri',
'userName3': 'spotifyPlaylistUri'
}
There are no quotes needed in the config file, apart from in the users dictionary
You will have to create a Spotify application in their developer portal to get a client ID and secret. Your redirect URI does not necessarily need to be accessible.
Non-standard dependencies (on Raspbian) are spotipy and phue, both available on pip - big love to their creators
If you are not using a desktop version of Raspbian, you will need to install gpiozero, again available on pip.
To use an LCD screen, you will need to install adafruit_character_lcd.
If you want to use the buttons on the Bluetooth speaker to control the songs, set useThreading to True and make sure you have evdev installed.
You can run spotifyUtils.py to get a list of your Spotify devices and their IDs, as well as the names of your Hue groups. This too requires a config file in the same directory.
Similarly, bluetoothUtils.py will give you the result of what your Bluetooth speaker kicks out when you press the buttons on it.