README

intro

Code to play a radio based on a Bandcamp user’s wishlist and https://bc-explorer.app.

setting up

1. Create a virtualenv (I used Python 3.9) and activate it

   virtualenv <env_name>
   source <env_name>/bin/activate
       

2. Install the requirements
   

   pip install -r requirements.txt
       

   and then:

   pip install -e .
       

3. Create a .env file
   A .env file is used to keep track of machine-specific variables. Create a .env in the root of this project with the following values set:

   PROJECT_DIR=/path/to/bandcamp_suggestor/ # the path to this directory
   BANDCAMP_USER=username # your bandcamp username
   RASPBERRY_PI_USER=username # your raspberry pi username (optional)
       

   To access these variables in python code run:

   from decouple import config
   config("PROJECT_DIR")
       

usage

from src.bandcamp_suggestor import BandcampSuggestor
bc_suggestor = BandcampSuggestor('<bandcamp_username>')
bc_suggestor.generate_suggestions()

will scrape the collection and wishlist items from bandcamp, use a randomly picked one to feed to bc-explorer, and then returns suggestions from bc-explorer.

To play the radio based on your bandcamp wishlist locally run the following:

python scripts/play_infinite_radio.py

To run the radio on raspberry pi startup do the following:

1. Install `RPi.GPIO` on the pi

   pip install RPi.GPIO==0.7.1
       

2. Give this file execute permissions

   chmod +x path/to/raspberry_pi_on_startup.sh
       

3. Run the following on startup of raspberry pi (https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/166473/debian-how-to-run-a-script-on-startup-as-soon-as-there-is-an-internet-connecti):

   export $(cat /path/to/.env | xargs) # to get $PROJECT_DIR and $RASPBERRY_PI_USER
   bash -c "${PROJECT_DIR}scripts/raspberry_pi_on_startup.sh > /path/to/run.log 2>&1" # Start the radio and log