pianobar widget for Dashing.

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Description

Displays the currently playing song from pianobar, a CLI client for pandora.com

Dependencies

Your system ruby must have the following gems installed: net/http, json and uri.

Usage

1. dashing install 8789893
2. Copy pianobar.rb somewhere on your system e.g. ~/.config/pianobar/pianobar.rb
3. Make pianobar.rb executable e.g. chmod +x ~/.config/pianobar/pianobar.rb
4. Ensure that the following line is present in your pianobar config file (typically ~/.config/pianobar/config): event_command = ~/.config/pianobar/pianobar.rb
5. To include the widget in a dashboard, add the following snippet to the dashboard layout file:

<li data-row="1" data-col="1" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1">
  <div data-id="pianobar" data-view="Pianobar"></div>
</li>

Support

This widget can be found as either a gist or a github repo.

If things aren't working, please open a github issue

pianobar.coffee

class Dashing.Pianobar extends Dashing.Widget

pianobar.html

<h1 class="title">Now Playing</h1>

<p class="songtitle" data-bind="title"></p>

<p>By</p>

<p class="artist" data-bind="artist"></p>

pianobar.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'net/http'
require 'json'
require 'uri'

my_dashboard = 'http://localhost:3030/widgets'
my_widget = 'pianobar'
dashing_auth_token = "YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN"

event = ARGV.first

if event == 'songstart'
  d = {}

  STDIN.each_line {
    |line| d.store(*line.chomp.split('=', 2))
  }

  uri = URI.parse("#{my_dashboard}/#{my_widget}")
  request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.request_uri)
  request.body = {
    :auth_token => dashing_auth_token,
    :artist => d['artist'],
    :title => d['title'],
    :coverArt => d['coverArt']
  }.to_json

  res = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port) do |http|
    http.request request
  end

end

pianobar.scss

// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Sass declarations
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
$mid-color: #396A92;
$light-color: #9AB4CB;

// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Widget-text styles
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
.widget-pianobar {

  background-color: $mid-color;

  .title, p {
    color: $light-color;
  }

  .artist, .songtitle {
    color: #FDFDFD;
    font-size:25px;
  }

  &.large h3 {
    font-size: 65px;
  }
}