any specific steps required for setup on picroft?

[fermulator]

Hey @forslund ; just this weekend finished transitioning from a Mycroft Linux x86 install on an older piece of hardware; to a raspberry pi 3B+; on the previous system, spotify was working well enough; (but for a few issues which we initially worked through) - in the end I had remote device working, without local playback (even w/ librespot installed)

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now with the pi, I think I went through similar installation steps, spotify skills looks OAauth'd and connected through the skills account settings;

I also installed https://dtcooper.github.io/raspotify/;

Have left it overnight, and rebooted the picroft a few times, but still:

 what spotify devices are available?     
 >> I couldn't find any Spotify devices.                                                                                         

any recommendation for debug/etc? (whatever I figure out I'll contribute/fix if I can )

[forslund]

I've started some better picroft documentation:https://github.com/forslund/spotify-skill/blob/feature/device-instructions/README.md

The short-short version is: install raspotify set device name and user / password in the raspotify config file, then reboot or restart the raspotify service

[fermulator]

hm OK! I was missing explicit configuration on the raspotify, but after doing so and a restart of that services, and a restart of the entire pi ... still didn't work;

started over:

(.venv) pi@picroft:~ $ msm remove mycroft-spotify
INFO - building SkillEntry objects for all skills
INFO - Best match (1.0): mycroft-spotify by forslund
INFO - Successfully removed mycroft-spotify
INFO - invalidating skills cache
(.venv) pi@picroft:~ $ msm install spotify
INFO - building SkillEntry objects for all skills
INFO - Best match (0.9): mycroft-spotify by forslund
INFO - Downloading skill: https://github.com/forslund/spotify-skill
INFO - Successfully ran requirements.sh for mycroft-spotify
INFO - Installing system requirements...
INFO - Installing requirements.txt for mycroft-spotify
INFO - Successfully installed mycroft-spotify
INFO - invalidating skills cache

on the raspotify side, looks like the config file doesn't work
, see dtcooper/raspotify#279
: oops, it isn't /etc/default/raspotify.conf it is /etc/default/raspotify ;o

after editing it and restarting, I now see the device as a playback item for "real" spotify clients (iphone)

but still:

 spotify devices                                                                      DEBUG output                                                                     
 >> I couldn't find any Spotify devices.

so spotify on the pi for me is neither showing the local playback device nor the soundbar; all on same network/subnet

[fermulator]

ugh; I just went back to https://account.mycroft.ai/skills, and all my spotify stuff is gone! ;/ is that normal? (because of the remove/install?)

[fermulator]

waited for:

mycroft.skills.mycroft_skill.mycroft_skill:handle_settings_change:308 | Updating settings for skill SpotifySkill
~~~~   |   643 | mycroft.skills.settings:save_settings:111 | Skill settings successfully saved to /home/pi/.config/mycroft/skills/mycroft-spotify.forslund/settings.json

confirmed the pulled remote config is now correct again

[fermulator]

 13:41:47.662 | INFO     |   643 | Playback Control Skill | Resolving Player for: music spotify
~~~~.670 | INFO     |   643 | mycroft.util:wait_while_speaking:58 | mycroft.utils.wait_while_speaking() is depreciated, use mycroft.audio.wait_while_speaking() instead.
Removing event mycroft-playback-control.mycroftai:PlayQueryTimeout
Removing event mycroft-playback-control.mycroftai:PlayQueryTimeout
 13:41:52.609 | INFO     |   643 | SpotifySkill | Handling "music spotify" as a genric query...
 13:41:52.609 | INFO     |   643 | SpotifySkill | Checking users playlists
 13:41:52.879 | INFO     |   643 | SpotifySkill | Checking artists
Removing event mycroft-spotify.forslund:launch_librespot
 13:41:53.174 | INFO     |   643 | SpotifySkill | Checking tracks
 13:41:53.521 | INFO     |   643 | SpotifySkill | Checking albums
 13:41:53.869 | INFO     |   643 | SpotifySkill | ('music spotify', 'fast soul music (spotify exclusive commentary version)', 0.4880597014925373)
 13:41:53.870 | INFO     |   643 | SpotifySkill | Checking tracks
 13:41:54.405 | INFO     |   643 | SpotifySkill | Spotify confidence: 0.5561403508771929
~~~~'https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?query=music+spotify&type=track&offset=10&limit=10', 'offset': 0, 'previous': None, 'total': 682}}, 'name': None, 'type': 'track'}
Removing event mycroft-playback-control.mycroftai:PlayQueryTimeout
 13:41:57.431 | INFO     |   643 | Playback Control Skill | Playing with: mycroft-spotify.forslund
 13:41:57.933 | INFO     |   643 | Playback Control Skill | Audio service status: {}
 13:41:59.028 | INFO     |   643 | SpotifySkill | Device detected: DeviceType.DESKTOP
 13:41:59.029 | ERROR    |   643 | SpotifySkill | Unable to get a default device while trying to play something.

 >> Spotify couldn't start playback: There are no Spotify devices available.                                                                                           

[forslund]

If your other devices sees it but not the skill that would indicate that it's in discover mode and not actually logged in but I can't tell for sure.

Gonna try to get time to verify the picroft guide from scratch tonight

[forslund]

For me the instructions worked, but after a couple of hours librespot seemed to lose connection to spotify.

Can you try the branch new-managed and run

systemctl disable raspotify
systemctl stop raspotify

This would make the skill responsible for launching librespot as it needs it.

[fermulator]

OK flipped the skill to

(.venv) pi@picroft:~/mycroft-core/skills/mycroft-spotify.forslund $ git status
HEAD detached at origin/new-managed
nothing to commit, working tree clean

, then disabled and stopped the services;

but then what? (wouldn't I need to reload the skill or restart mycroft? - else the skill is still running on the previous code?)

 13:22:31.136 | INFO     | 18069 | mycroft.skills.skill_loader:load:114 | ATTEMPTING TO LOAD SKILL: mycroft-spotify.forslund
 13:22:31.340 | INFO     | 18069 | mycroft.skills.settings:get_local_settings:78 | /home/pi/.config/mycroft/skills/mycroft-spotify.forslund/settings.json
Removing event mycroft-spotify.forslund:SpotifyLogin
Removing event mycroft-timer.mycroftai:ShowTimer
Removing event mycroft-spotify.forslund:SpotifyLogin
 13:22:36.387 | INFO     | 18069 | mycroft.skills.skill_loader:_communicate_load_status:280 | Skill mycroft-spotify.forslund loaded successfully

(.venv) pi@picroft:~/mycroft-core/skills/mycroft-spotify.forslund $ msm list -i | grep spotify
INFO - building SkillEntry objects for all skills
INFO - building SkillEntry objects for all skills
INFO - invalidating skills cache
mycroft-spotify	[installed]

, still no spotify devices <<

[fermulator]

hmmmm i went back to account skills and the spotify config is empty again :( ...
https://account.mycroft.ai/skills
(how is it possible this keeps getting reset? or is that normal?)

(.venv) pi@picroft:~/mycroft-core/skills/mycroft-spotify.forslund $ cat /home/pi/.config/mycroft/skills/mycroft-spotify.forslund/settings.json
{"__mycroft_skill_firstrun": false, "user": "", "Spotify": 1, "password": "", "use_ducking": false, "default_device": ""}(.venv)

[fermulator]

(also note; if we disable raspotify to be controlled only by mycroft skill ... then other devices won't be able to play off the mycroft speaker anymore ;/)

[forslund]

The spotify skill should reload automatically when you switch branch,

I can't say what's happening on the backend with the settings. It will be removed if no mycroft-core skill manifest contains the skill. But that shouldn't be the case when switching branch. it will switch from a stable id to an "unstable" id but should still exist.

The skill will start librespot with the credentials set on mycroft-home so it should launch librespot and other devices can control it. It will also restart librespot if you request playback and it doesn't see the librespot device (some communication error has occured).

If the skill settings are available the skill should start librespot for you. and ps aux | grep librespot should show something. If the settings are empty it will not start librespot until it receives user / password.

Edit: I would prefer not to control raspotify from the skill, mainly wanted to check if it would do any difference (since this makes it basically work the same way as the Mark-1)

[fermulator]

reset the account skills again, picroft confirms receipt;
(fair enough on the uncertainty of account settings loss, it is wonky for sure; just causing a pain in debugging this as suddenly I realize ACK! my settings are wiped, so it invalidates some testing results)

confirming after this,

(.venv) pi@picroft:~ $ ps aux | grep librespot
pi       28445  0.1  0.6  29092  6140 pts/0    Sl   02:53   0:00 librespot -n mycroft-kitchen -u <USERNAME> -p <PASSWORD>

(yikes, PW plain text in the settings and process commands ;o)

reloaded mycroft CLI:

spotify devices                                                                              DEBUG output                                                                             
 >> I see the Spotify devices named: mycroft-kitchen and [AV] back den soundbar

woohoo! it sees itself and the soundbar now

[fermulator]

(should i drop it back to main branch and retest to see if this managed consideration is relevant?)

[forslund]

Great that it works, I'd like to get away from the plaintext u/p issue there by supporting discovery (U/P is sent encrypted over http(s) to the player) But I'll need a day or so to focus on the issue. Maybe during my vacation :)

The "managed" shouldn't do anything different than the raspotify system service so it be cool if you could see if you can get it working without the spotify skill managing. I think it's better to not to have the skill manage librespot and leave that to the system.

[fermulator]

Wellp, this didn't go so well. After I reverted back to master branch, and re-enabled raspotify service & started it, and resarted again, the spotify integration stopped working again.

:(

 list spotify devices                                                                 voice.log                                                               --- 13.79
 >> I'm not sure I understood you.                                                                                                                                     
 play classical on spotify                                                                                                                                             
 >> Give me a moment to check for that                                                                                                                                 
 >> I'm not sure how to play classical on spotify