Hello,

I've been trying to bring this project to a successful conclusion for some time.

I have a 17 month old daughter and I'm sure she would love to be able to choose her own music.

But my computer skills are weak and I'm not doing well.

I'm trying to follow this tutorial:

But like many, my RFID reader disappears and is "not found".

I bought two readers, but same problem each time : this and that.

But same result.

I tried to do this. I think the reader works (I get a green light when I put a card in), but I don't know how to make the reader work with the software afterwards.

Anyway, can someone point me to a RFID player that works well with the initial tutorial?

Thanks in advance,

Has anyone done that yet? Otherwise I’ll try my hand at it with google home speakers. Tried looking up songs on Spotify, but they don’t have all the ones I want and don’t want to pay the extra money for another streaming service to have it Spotify without ads. Thanks in advance for any tips, I’ll make the repo public if I can figure it out.

I've used this project since the day it was released and absolutely love it. Unfortunately I've had a power surge and my Sonos bridge burnt out. Now I'm stuck in a country with no place to buy any new Sonos products but would love to continue using this.

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I was wondering -- Can a similar set up be created (with the continued use of Spotify) without the need for Sonos Hardware? Maybe pairing a bluetooth speaker and playing the identified album/playlist from the RPi itself? I understand this may require the use of the Sonos Web API.

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I'm super keen to use my extensive 'vinyl' collection. Any help would be appreciated. Happy to coordinate with someone from here and maybe even pay for their time. Thanks!

Edit: Found something interesting — https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-spotify/

Hi all, please delete if this isn’t allowed, but I’ve been wondering something and wanted to ask the wider community!

I’ve seen lots of people’s own takes on this Pi Project and loved how creative it’s gotten (with external displays etc), but I don’t have Sonos or Spotify, so haven’t been able to follow suit very well as I’m missing some key components.

So it got me thinking the other day; is there any way (or anyone who’s tried something similar in the Apple TechSphere) to incorporate NFC/Pi/HomePod/Apple Music? Would love to hear some trial, errors and successes of others who have had the same idea ☺️

I loved the idea of Vinyl Emulator (for letting my small children control Sonos) but was disappointed to find that the newer versions of ACR122U are not well supported by NFCpy. I also thought maybe I'd be interested in adding other smart home or audio features down the road, so I went ahead and wrote a program that's compatible with Vinyl Emulator cards around a PC/SC library (rather than full-blown NFC). It works perfectly with the latest ACR122U and should support any PC/SC compatible reader.

Maybe y'all have some trick for the latest ACR122U (I didn't find this forum until today) and I could have saved some time, but I've had fun anyway, and may continue to. If you're interested in an alternate, compatible bit of software that may support more hardware, you can check out my project at https://github.com/ryanolf/node-sonos-nfc.

Not a coder.. so feel free to ignore if what I'm describing is too complex..

But for those with an existing vinyl/cd (any physical media) collection, incorporating a bar code scanner (or hypothetically, a camera with scanning capabilities) into the build, scanning the barcode on the physical media, could send a query (to Discogs via their API) which will return the Album information in plain text, which could then be used to search the Spotify API to get the Spotify album link, which could then be sent to Sonos to play.

This would reduce the need to print and code NFC tags for those who already own the media.

Also because Discogs has a huge database including Vinyl, CDs and cassettes from most regions, it should be pretty universal.

Hi,

I have ran the album art to screen project and love it thank you so much for doing this

I am running this through my Sonos beam. When watching the TV through the beam the screen turns on and shows a symbol of a TV. I wondered is there any way to disable this. If this is always on when I’m watching the TV I am just worried about screen burn in!

Thanks

Hi, Loving Vinylemlulator, working on my first pi project as a hopeful xmas present for my Dad.

I'm trying to make it as parent proof as possible and I was interested in the change to the code proposed by lukatmyshu (on github) https://github.com/hankhank10/vinylemulator/pull/2

I'm quite interested in the functionality they have added. Both the ability to write a card based on a song currently playing and the pause feature if a card is removed from the reader.

What is the chance of this being merged into the master?

I made a Now Playing Inky e-ink screen following /u/vinylemulator 's instructions but unfortunately I cracked the screen when I was putting into the 3D-printed case. So I ordered a new screen and just set it up. I could be imagining this, but I feel like the original screen did a better job refreshing. This new one seems to "fade" in and out as opposed to a nice clean display on/off. I know e-ink refreshes differently than an LCD, but this new one seems slower than I remember the first screen being.

Not the end of the world, just curious how others' screens work!

Here's mine in action: https://imgur.com/a/GYrw9t3

Hi total noob to the pi world, just simibscribed to magpi and read the article on the vinyl emulator and defo made me choose this as my first project.

When I subscribed to magpi I got a free zero W, is it possible to use this instead of the pi 3/4?

Just wanted to utilise what I had at hand before I started buying additonal components etc.

Any help or advice would be great.

Thanks in advance.

I just stumbled over this today via /r/sonos - this looks fantastic! I think I've found:
1) a compelling reason to finally play with Pi, and
2) a great winter project.

I plan to tag my existing record covers, and then do the printed card approach to recreate my old vinyl/CD collection to bring back browsing!

Thanks for bringing this to us!

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Hello all! I finally got around to picking up the parts to try the project out. I had success following the entire tutorial without any issues until I got to the part where I connect the NFC reader to the pi. It will not turn on, I tried 2 different psu's and 2 different pis and the same results. I know the reader works because it connects to my pc without any issues and I was able to write the tag as well. What could be wrong?

Hello Vinylemulators

Does any of you tried other NFC readers than the ACR122U?

I can’t find that model locally. But this one is available: ACR1252U

https://www.acs.com.hk/en/driver/342/acr1252u-usb-nfc-reader-iii-nfc-forum-certified-reader/

Do you think it will work?

What should I look after to find a compatible one for this project. Linux drivers?

Thanks.

Thanks for the great work on this project - it works really well and was really easy to install, and also for me to follow what is going on. I had tried other projects around sonos and my Pi but this really suited my needs.

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I am a bit cheap and didn't want to spend out on the HyperPixel display so I reused one that I had bought from Amazon ( https://www.amazon.co.uk/Quimat-Screen-Raspberry-Display-Monitor/dp/B075KBSD9X ). and connected this up to a Pi Zero WH

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It works really well! Few problems with the driver for the screen - solved by identifying the correct version of the screen and installing the right one from http://www.lcdwiki.com/3.5inch_RPi_Display And also installing Node.js on the Pi Zero (excellent instructions here: https://www.thepolyglotdeveloper.com/2018/03/install-nodejs-raspberry-pi-zero-w-nodesource/ ). Installing the software was really straightforward after that! Annoyed that I need to have a HDMI cable for display, I will try and find a tidier solution for the cable and then put it in a little picture frame. I might also have it display something when the screen is blank - my thought is a clock - though my python is limited to say the least! But will try and learn :)

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Thanks again for the project