[tech] [committee] UCC Technologies

[Damian Worsdell]

Cheers Andrew!
Thank you so much for the detailed information.

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tech@,

I’m interested in what you guys are doing with your RPi called Eggman.
I’ve investigated Mopidy and attempted to use it, but so far using several web GUI’s users still have to individually authenticate to Spotify.

Are there any other services your technology team has investigated?
We’re only looking for an extremely simple setup using a Spotify account we’ll provide for the members of Bloom to use over a web GUI.

Thanks!

Warm regards,



Damian Worsdell / BloomTech Team
damian at bloom.org.au / +61 448 793 747

Bloom
BloomLab, St Catherine's College 2 Park Rd, Crawley WA 6009
bloom.org.au


On 8 January 2016 at 8:31:15 PM, Andrew Adamson (bob at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au) wrote:

Hi Damian,  

The system in the clubroom has just been replaced - old robotnik was  
having a few hardware problems I believe, and it has been replaced with a  
raspberry pi called eggman.  

Robotnik was an x86 machine (I don't recall much more about the hardware),  
running ubuntu or debian. The music was mostly stored on an nfs share,  
with a little local storage on robotnik itself for playlists and  
user-uploaded content. We use an assortment of interfaces for it; locally  
on robotnik there was phpmp as a web interface as well as ncmpc as a  
command line interface. We also had Ario on most of the desktop as part of  
the SOE, but I don't think that got used much.  

Eggman is still being set up. For now I think someone has just stuck MPD  
on it so we can have basic music services. The plan in the future is to  
install something that has spotify support in addition to the mpd  
capabilities, such as mopidy. I believe members also want the ability to  
drag/drop youtube links on to the interface to make it play those over the  
speakers too.  

Shoot an email to tech@ if you have any further questions.  

Andrew Adamson  
bob at ucc.asn.au  

|"If you can't beat them, join them, and then beat them." |  
| ---Peter's Laws |  

On Fri, 8 Jan 2016, Damian Worsdell wrote:  

> G’day UCC,  
>  
> I’m a member of the tech team at Bloom, a self-funded student startup co-working space running out of St. Catherine's across the road.  
> We’re embarking on a number of projects this year, and in particular we’re interested in the music system that UCC currently operates.  
> Aside from purchasing a Chromecast Audio and calling it a day, I was wondering if a member of UCC could quickly help us out with some information regarding your setup.  
>  
> Looking forward to your response!  
>  
> Warm regards,  
>  
>  
>  
> Damian Worsdell / BloomTech Team  
> damian at bloom.org.au / +61 448 793 747  
>  
> Bloom  
> BloomLab, St Catherine's College 2 Park Rd, Crawley WA 6009  
> bloom.org.au
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