musicbot

Play music from Slack: Raspberry Pi + Mopidy + Spotify

What is this?

This is a bot to control music playback via Slack channel. It communicates commands from users to a Mopidy server via JSON RPC endpoint. Mopidy makes it possible to use Spotify as a media source, but you would need a premium account ($10/mo).

How does it work?

Users in Slack can control playlist: add new tracks, skip, pause, stop and control volume. Musicbot will send notification when next track starts playing or when new tracks are added to the playlist.

Mopidy is a very flexible media streaming solution that works fine on all major systems including Raspberry PI. Even an old RPi model A with 256 Mb RAM should be good enough. Musicbot itself has a very small memory footprint and is distributed as a precompiled binary.

Commands

List of all available commands:

• help - Show help usage
• current - Get current track
• next|skip - Skip to the next track
• pause - Pause playback
• resume - Resume playback
• stop - Stop playback
• play - Play current track
• play query - Play first 10 tracks that match query
• tracks|lists - Get tracks in the playlist
• clear - Remote all tracks from playlist
• vol|volume - Get current volume
• vol|volume (up|down|num) - Change volume

Install

You can download a precompiled binary for your OS from Github Releases

Install the package:

go get github.com/sosedoff/musicbot

Compile from source

Clone repository run setup task:

make setup

Build a binary for current OS:

make build

Build binaries for OSX (amd64), Linux (amd64/arm):

make release

You'll see the output:

Number of parallel builds: 8

-->     linux/amd64: github.com/sosedoff/musicbot
-->       linux/arm: github.com/sosedoff/musicbot
-->    darwin/amd64: github.com/sosedoff/musicbot

Usage

All available options and environment variables:

Usage:
  musicbot [OPTIONS]

Application Options:
      --mopidy=        Mopidy server host:port [$MOPIDY_HOST]
      --slack-token=   Slack integration token [$SLACK_TOKEN]
      --slack-channel= Slack channel name (general) [$SLACK_CHANNEL]
  -d, --debug          Enable debugging mode (false)
  -v, --version        Print version

Help Options:
  -h, --help           Show this help message

IMPORTANT

Please make sure you create a BOT slack token, not a regular web hook or a slash command token. Those tokens do not work for RTM (real-time messages) via Slack's websockets.

License

MIT