tonie-podcast-sync

tonie-podcast-sync allows synching podcast episodes to creative tonies.

This is a purely private project and has no association with Boxine GmbH.

Constraints and Limitations

currently limited to podcasts providing mp3 files
tested with the following podcasts:
... but in general, it should hopefully work with all podcasts out there

Prerequisites

requires Python >= 3.10.11
if you use the volume_adjustment feature for a Podcast, ffmpeg needs to be installed

Usage

tonie-podcast-sync is available as a pip package on pypi. Install via

pip install tonie-podcast-sync

You then have two options of using this: via its CLI or as a python library.

via CLI

The most convienent way is to just use the CLI:

A first step is to configure tonie-podcast-sync

tonie-podcast-sync create-settings-file

The command will guide you through the process. The settings and optionally also a secret file will be stored in ~/.toniepodcastsync.

Afterwards, you can run

tonie-podcast-sync update-tonies

to fetch new podcast episodes and download them onto the tonies. If you want to perform changes (e.g. switch to another podcast), you can edit the settings file ~/.toniepodcastsync/settings.toml in a text editor.

To periodically fetch for new episodes, you can schedule tonie-podcast-sync e.g. via systemd (on a Linux OS).

In addition,

tonie-podcast-sync --help

provides an overview about these and other available commands.

in your own Python scripts

You can use tonie-podcast-sync by importing it into your own Python scripts, as in this example code:

from tonie_podcast_sync.toniepodcastsync import ToniePodcastSync, Podcast, EpisodeSorting

# Create some Podcast objects, providing the feed URL to each
pumuckl = Podcast("https://feeds.br.de/pumuckl/feed.xml")

# By default, podcasts are placed onto Tonies by newest episode first
# If you want to change the episode sorting, following options are available
# - EpisodeSorting.BY_DATE_NEWEST_FIRST (default)
# - EpisodeSorting.BY_DATE_OLDEST_FIRST
# - EpisodeSorting.RADNOM
maus_60min = Podcast(
    "https://kinder.wdr.de/radio/diemaus/audio/diemaus-60/diemaus-60-106.podcast",
    episode_sorting = EpisodeSorting.BY_DATE_NEWEST_FIRST
)
maus_gute_nacht = Podcast(
    "https://kinder.wdr.de/radio/diemaus/audio/gute-nacht-mit-der-maus/diemaus-gute-nacht-104.podcast",
    episode_sorting = EpisodeSorting.RANDOM
)

# If you want to adjust the volume of a podcast, set volume_adjustment to an integer other than 0
# The audio will be adjusted (+/-) by that amount in dB
anne_und_die_wilden_tiere = Podcast(
    "https://feeds.br.de/anna-und-die-wilden-tiere/feed.xml",
    episode_sorting = EpisodeSorting.RANDOM,
    volume_adjustment = -2
)

# Some Podcasts inject episodes that are very short (e.g. announcing a holiday break).
# `episode_min_duration_sec` can be used to filter out all episodes shorter then this value.
# the example below will skip all episodes shorter then 30 seconds.
checker_tobi = Podcast(
    "https://feeds.br.de/checkpod-der-podcast-mit-checker-tobi/feed.xml",
    episode_sorting = EpisodeSorting.RANDOM,
    episode_min_duration_sec = 30
)

# Create instance of ToniePodcastSync
tps = ToniePodcastSync("<toniecloud-username>", "<toniecloud-password>")

# For an overview of your creative Tonies and their IDs
# The IDs are needed to address specific Tonies in the next step
tps.print_tonies_overview()

# Define creative Tonies based on their ID
greenTonie = "<your-tonieID>"
orangeTonie = "<your-tonieID>"

# Fetch new podcast episodes and copy them to greenTonie.
# The tonie will be filled with as much episodes as fit (90 min max).
tps.sync_podcast_to_tonie(pumuckl, greenTonie)

# Kid's should fall asleep, so let's limit the podcast
# Episodes on this tonie to 60 minutes in total.
# Use the optional parameter for this:
tps.sync_podcast_to_tonie(maus_gute_nacht, orangeTonie, 60)

For the tonie to fetch new content from tonie-cloud, you have to press one ear for 3s (until the "ping" sound) with no tonie on the box (refer also to TonieBox manual).