PiThing

An unofficial Raspberry Pi companion app for Spotify inspired by the Car Thing and the DeskThing

/!\ Only works for Spotify premium users

Setup

If you want to run the app on your Raspberry Pi you need to follow the instructions on the flutter-pi repository ortherwise you can run it on Windows/Linux/Macos with a regular Flutter.

To build the app for Raspberry Pi 3 :

flutterpi_tool build --release --cpu=pi3 --dart-define-from-file=.env 

Then to transfer it :

rsync -avzh --progress --stats ./build/flutter_assets/ pi@raspberrypi:/home/pi/pi_thing

Finally to run it on the Raspberry Pi :

flutter-pi --release /home/pi/pi_thing

Spotify configuration

To get the clientId and clientSecret you need to create an app on the Spotify Developer Dashboard and check Web API.

The redirect url must be set to http://{deviceIp}:8888/callback

Once you have clientId and clientSecret, add them to the .env

Hardware

The PiThing app is developped using this :

• Raspberry Pi 3B Rev 1.2
• 7-inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 1024 × 600 (docs)