MMM-MPRIS2-WebSocket

Magic Mirror Module - A module for Magic Mirror that displays the current playing song on a machine that exposes the MPRIS2 interface by WebSocket (which is another script I've wrote)

Install

1. Clone repository into ../modules/ inside your MagicMirror folder.
2. Add the module to the Magic Mirror config.

{
  module: "MMM-MPRIS2-WebSocket",
  position: "top_left",
  header: "Playing now",
  config: {
    host : <host of target machine>,
    port : <port of target machine>
  }
},

3. Run This script on your target machine, see below for autostart with systemd.
4. Done! Start playing a song with a MPRIS-capable player and it should show up.

Configuration parameters

• host : The machine that has the info on which song is playing, required
• port : The port of the remote machine that is running the mpris2_websocket.py script, default is 9000
• retryInterval : How long in milliseconds it should wait before trying to make a new connection if the remote server isn't answering or the connection has been dropped, default is 5 minutes

Systemd unit to have autostart of the server

1. Create a file mpris2websocket.service in ~/.local/share/systemd/user and make it executable with the following:

[Unit]
Description=MPRIS2 Websocket Controller

[Service]
Environment=DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus
Type=simple
ExecStart=<absolute folder for script>/mpris2_websocket.py -n <netmask to allow>

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

2. Reload units systemctl --user daemon-reload
3. Enable it by running systemctl --user enable mpris2websocket.service
4. Start it by running systemctl --user start mpris2websocket.service