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    A Former User @Guest
    last edited by May 29, 2020, 5:05 PM

    Sorry for bothering you guys with my kinky ex-module.

    The problem is; There is no server-pushed way to get current playback in RPI with spotify api.
    So to get current playing data, frequent api callings are needed.

    Possible solution under current condition is; removing some features - like progress bar, displaying playtime… So then too many requests are not needed.

    In other platforms like desktop PC, Google Chrome has widevine/DRM so we can use “web playback api”, it can make direct playing spotify on browser level, and get playback data directly. But not possible in rpi natively.

    Some hacks for widevine exist for RPI chromium, but our MM’s electron still miss that feature.

    But! I’ve heard newest Electron(9.0) has a new Chromium(80? 83?) and it might have widevine supported (I haven’t tested yet, or never…)
    I’m not sure it would be supported in rpi or not but if who has interest, worthy to try. If supported, you can build a new module which can play spotify directly without raspotify instead this poor module.

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      mmmmh Project Sponsor @Guest
      last edited by May 29, 2020, 5:17 PM

      @Sean Thank you for chiming in and for providing a more elaborate response. I thought that the constant polling might be the reason. If I may comment, for other users it may be helpful to put it in the documentation that using the module leads to increased network traffic.

      I for one would be happy with a display of the static per-title information and the controls, I will observe what happens when I crank the refresh rate up to 30000 milliseconds.

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        mmmmh Project Sponsor @Guest
        last edited by May 30, 2020, 5:27 AM

        @Sean I hacked together a simple bash script (dnssaver.sh) that fetches IPs and stores them in the hosts file. If I call it with ‘api.spotify.com’ as argument and put it in my crontab it should take a load of the dns server. I’ll keep an eye on it.

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          Cr4z33
          last edited by Jun 5, 2020, 5:19 PM

          @Bugsounet either I am doing something wrong or there’s a bug.

          I added onStart: null, in the module config, but the big Spotify logo keeps displaying all the time.

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            A Former User
            last edited by A Former User Jun 5, 2020, 5:41 PM Jun 5, 2020, 5:35 PM

            if Soptify logo not hidden after start, it’s means :
            token missing or token error

            you should have in console something like that :

            [SPOTIFY:ERROR] USERNAME: [your username]
            [SPOTIFY:ERROR] Token Error ! ./[token name].json
            

            if you have set a token … verify the exact name
            and report it to your account username specified in spotify.config.json -> “TOKEN” field

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              A Former User
              last edited by Jun 5, 2020, 5:50 PM

              when ok It display :

              • default style
                253eaa12-c844-4296-8b73-1d107fdb504a-image.png

              • mini style
                108abf52-5ca1-41c3-983c-7c3bc2abe3e7-image.png

              • when bottom_bar position is set
                56ab36ca-b72b-463d-8a90-37fae6d6bbc4-image.png

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                A Former User
                last edited by A Former User Jun 5, 2020, 5:56 PM Jun 5, 2020, 5:56 PM

                @mmmmh :

                ec2c8523-54a4-4a39-a78a-db4e95a007de-image.png

                now idleInterval is set to 30000 (scan is Spotify is playing every 30 sec)
                if playing : updateInterval is set by default to 1000 (1sec)

                Attention it’s means that with idleInterval : when Spotify is playing to take 30 sec to display it in mirror !by default !

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                  mmmmh Project Sponsor
                  last edited by Jun 6, 2020, 2:07 PM

                  @Bugsounet Thanks. Do I understand this correctly. As long as the module is idle it will only check for updates every 30 seconds and when it is active (music is being played) it updates every second?

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                    A Former User
                    last edited by Jun 6, 2020, 2:10 PM

                    Right,

                    I hope this suits you, because it starts to take head ;)

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                      sbonn13
                      last edited by sbonn13 Jun 7, 2020, 1:42 PM Jun 7, 2020, 1:42 PM

                      Somehow the authorization process does not work.

                      ...node first auth.js
                      [SPOTIFY] Initialized
                      

                      Browser opened and the log in was succesful as well as accepting the app, but then instead of creating the token.js I receive an error:

                      [SPOTIFY] Error in authentication flow!
                      [SPOTIFY] ERROR: undefined
                      [SPOTIFY] Authorization process finished!
                      

                      In spotify I can see that I have the mirror app available in approved apps, but there is not token in the modules folder. Therefore the connection does not work.

                      Does anybody have an idea?
                      Thanks

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