Emby activity LED indicator

Description

A simple script for Raspberry Pi to light an LED if any user is currently using the service.

emby_activity.py

Lights up the LED if anyone is currently using the service.

emby_transcode.py

Lights up the LED if transcoding is in use.

emby_active_users.py

Lights up the LED if more than one is using the service.
I'm planning on expanding this to use a 7-segment display to display how many users is using the service.

Raspberry Pi GPIO setup

Activity LED = 17
Transcode LED = 27
Active Users LED = 22
Make sure to use a resistor between the Pi and the LED(s), or you might damage your Pi.

Running

First, you need to create a API key.
Go to the server dashboard > API Keys and create a new key.

Paste your API key next to API_KEY, the server IP next to SERVER_IP and the port
emby uses next to PORT (default 8096), then run it with python.
Once an activity is detected, the LED(s) will light up.

Dependencies

RPi.GPIO (pip install RPi.GPIO)

Autostart

I personally prefer using pm2, but a cronjob works just as well.

pm2

npm install pm2 -g
pm2 startup
pm2 start emby_activity.py
pm2 start emby_transcode.py
pm2 start emby_active_users.py
pm2 save

cron

crontab -e
@reboot /path/to/script.py

Special Thanks

K900_ @ reddit for helping me with the emby_active_users script.