My Info Screen For Current Playing Music

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Hi guys, thought Id write some info and show a video of my first bespoke integration.

What I’m doing here is to integration HA with my TV via the Android Bridge, and also Alexa.

I’ve written a custom php file sitting on my web server, which has a little query strong at the end taking the artist’s name. HA monitors my Alexa device, and if a new artist starts playing, it sends the web-page to my android tv, with the artists name.
The web-page is php based, and downloads 5 images of the artist from open-commons, and the artists’ biography from wiki, via their api, which you see in the ticker.

I also have a QR generate using an api, and display this over the slidershow. Lets say I new artist starts playing, and I like them, I can scan the qr code, and it fires a web-hooks over to HA, which tells my alexa device to play songs by the artist.

Gonna have a beer its taken ages!

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Cool - makes my solution look a bit dated (but mine does send a feed to Twitter with artwork, a short review, links to the song and various related hashtags! All taken from any icecast enabled radio station). It also curates the songs into playlists on Spotify for later listening in the car, based on the radio station genre.

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You must be on a retainer for Paul Simon - using “that word” set off my Alexa :smiley:

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I watched the vieo back twice before I played it…Paul Simon is going to be $0.0003 better off tonight!

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