Feature request

[wrestlingcarbonapple]

First, THANK YOU for this amazing piece of software. It made my RPi exactly what i needed it to be :+1: My title is vague because i don't really know what i'm asking for. I'm fiddling around with connecting a 20x4 i2c display to my RPi, i use the Python smbus library to write to it. So what i'm after is a way to write song name/artist, play/pause status, volume and other info to it. I don't know where to begin.

[Fornoth]

You're very welcome! And you should be able to get this stuff from the API (/api/info/metadata and /api/info/status) The full URL would be something like http://localhost:4000/api/info/metadata

[john-a-harris]

I'd like to add my thanks too - it's a great solution. I am also looking to do the same as the original poster, but I am using the connect.py direct - is there anyway to get at the meta data this way? Shairport-sync writes its metadata to a pipe - could something similar be done here?

[wrestlingcarbonapple]

It turned out pretty awesome using the metadata-json! Is there a way to output what device Spotify is playing from in the metadata? It changes even if i play on my cellphone or PC :)

[Fornoth]

@john-a-harris I'll look into doing something like that @shakudu Unfortunately not :( That info isn't exposed in the library I'm using

[john-a-harris]

@shakudu Looks great! Are you polling the api, or using some other trigger for deciding when to fetch the data?

[wrestlingcarbonapple]

Polling the api every few seconds and outputs to display if there's any changes. But some kind of trigger would've been more effective.

[michaellunzer]

hi @shakudu do you mind posting your code or explaining a bit more of how you accomplished it? I'm hoping to do a similar thing with the same LCD display.