spotifyd-server

A simple website to restart and update spotifyd. Convenient restarting (and cache removal)is required if multiple Spotify-Accounts want to vonnect to spotifyd.

• Made for Raspberry Pi 1.
• Not made well, requires some tweaking if others want to use this code.

Setup : Hardware

• Raspberry Pi 1 with USB sound card

Setup: Software

preparatory commands:

mkdir ~/.spotifyd_cache
cd ~ && git clone https://github.com/TheBigFatTony/spotifyd-server.git

sudo apt install git python3-dev python3-pip python3-requests python3-wget
sudo pip3 install uwsgi

allow user to run reboot/shutdown:

sudo visudo
# add this line to the end:
# pi raspberrypi =NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/systemctl poweroff,/usr/bin/systemctl halt,/usr/bin/systemctl reboot

~/.asoundrc: (get dev id using aplay-l)

pcm.!default {
    type hw
    card 1
}

ctl.!default {
    type hw           
    card 1
}

• ~/.config/systemd/user/spotifyd.service

[Unit]
Description=A spotify playing daemon
Documentation=https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd
Wants=sound.target
After=sound.target
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/home/pi/spotifyd --no-daemon --config-path=/home/pi/spotifyd-server/spotifyd.conf
Restart=always
RestartSec=12

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

• ~/.config/systemd/user/spotifyd_server.service

[Unit]
Description=Spotifyd-Website
Documentation=https://github.com/TheBigFatTony/spotifyd-server
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target

[Service]
ExecStart=uwsgi --http :9090 --wsgi-file /home/pi/spotifyd-server/SpotifydServer.py
Restart=always
RestartSec=12

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

useful commands:

# reload systemd
sudo systemctl daemon-reload

# enable a service
systemctl --user enable {service}.service

# restart a service
systemctl --user restart {service}.service

# see logs of a service
journalctl --user-unit {service}.service -f