Pulses LIFX lights to the beat of songs being currently played on Spotify with two different colors that are varied with every song.
- Spotify account
- LIFX light(s)
- Spotify client id (tutorial below)
- Spotify client secret (tutorial below)
- LIFX access token (tutorial below)
1. Get LIFX access token
2. Get Spotify client id and client secret, and set redirect URI
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Create an app
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Here are your client id and client secret
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Press edit settings, then once in the Spotify project settings add https://www.google.com/ as the redirect URI
3. Fill out metronomeconfig.txt
- Open metronomeconfig.txt
- Paste your LIFX token and your Spotify client id, secret, and username in the respective spots in the file
- You can choose the pool of colors that the lights could be, the brightness, and the lights per beat in this file as well
- Save the file
4. Download requirements.txt
- After downloading requirements.txt open terminal or command prompt
- Make sure pip is installed (if not, search "how to install pip")
- Go to the directory where this project is saved in
- Run: pip install -r requirements.txt in the command line to install the necessary libraries
5. Sign in to Spotify in Metronome for Lifx app
- Run metronomeforlifx.py in terminal/command prompt
- Sign in to Spotify account when prompted in browser
- If sign in was successful, copy the URL of the page that you were redirected to after signing in (google.com/...). This is for authorization purposes. If sign in is unsuccessful re-run the program and attempt to sign in again
- Paste this URL into prompt in command line
- Make sure LIFX lights are on and online
- Make sure metronomeconfig.txt is filled out with valid information
- Make sure metronomeconfig.txt, requirements.txt, and metronomeforlifx.py are all in the same directory on your computer
- Make sure a valid Spotify song is playing on the same account you signed in to
- Make sure you have https://www.google.com/ saved as the redirect URI in your Spotify app settings