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unklar

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Re: Show us your conky

Cannot recall who actually did the "Bunsen burner".

Michael Faraday 

Thanks for the funny code.

Sector11

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Re: Show us your conky

Cannot recall who actually did the "Bunsen burner".

Michael Faraday 

Thanks for the funny code.

That burner I knew.

The ASCII caracter and codes I have had for quite a while, started back in the #! days:

## ASCII Characters

## box chars ─ plus ─ works on #! Statler
## Inspired by Arpinux, Box Chars by Aphelion & Sector11
## http://crunchbanglinux─fr.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=15355#p15355
## not with all fonts... test first .. these work:
## xftfont monospace:size=8.5
## xftfont DejaVu Sans Mono:size=8.5

## │ ─ ┌ ┬ ┐ └ ┴ ┘ ├ ┼ ┤
## ║ ═ ╔ ╦ ╗ ╚ ╩ ╝ ╠ ╬ ╣

## ↑ ↓ → ← ↔ ► ◄ ▲ ▼ « »
## ░  ▒  ▓ ☺ ☻ ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠
## • ◘ ○ ◙ ♂ ♀ ♪ ♫ ☼
## ¼ ½ ¾ ® ©

NUL	☺	☻	♥	♦	♣	♠	•	◘	○	◙	♂	♀	♪	♫	☼
►	◄	↕	‼	¶	§	▬	↨	↑	↓	→	←	∟	↔	▲	▼
⌂	ø	£	Ø	×	ƒ	ª	º	¿	®	¬	½	¼	¡	«	»
░	▒	▓	│	┤	Á	Â	À	©	╣	║	╗	╝	¢	¥	┐
└	┴	┬	├	─	┼	ã	Ã	╚	╔	╩	╦	╠	═	╬	¤
ð	Ð	┘	┌	█	▄	¦	▀	Ó	ß	µ	þ	Þ	¯	´
	±	‗	¾	¶	§	¸	°	¨	·	■	⬆	⬇
¹	²	³	⁴	⁵	⁶	⁷	⁸	⁹	⁰

╔ ═ ╦ ═ ╗

║   ║   ║

╠ ═ ╬ ═ ╣

║   ║   ║

╚ ═ ╩ ═ ╝

┌ ─ ┬ ─ ┐

│   │   │

├ ─ ┼ ─ ┤

│   │   │

└ ─ ┴ ─ ┘

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unklar

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From: #! BL

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Re: Show us your conky

RadioTrayNG  -  Now Playing
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 76#p135976

After 5+ months of testing I can say that the script works better than expected.

Maybe it's time for a new version, the script has been improved and new features have been added:

1) You can now (if you want) see the album_art.png thumbnail in your file manager
   
   If you open ~/album_art.png (with preferred app) you will get a size of 300x300 which is probably bigger than in conky and the album cover is much more detailed.

https://i.postimg.cc/t7xb7L70/file-manager.png  https://i.postimg.cc/fJQNdB0V/image-viewer.png

   You can easily activate this by removing the ' # ' at the beginning of the lines (with convert and cp).

#### Add the album_art.png thumbnail to the File Manager        
        
        convert $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.png $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.png
        
        cp $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.png $HOME/album_art.png
        
#### END - Add the album_art.png thumbnail to the File Manager

2) The option Disable conky when turn off Radiotray-NG  is now the default

   When you turn off Radiotray-NG, the conky will disappear, along with the album_art.png thumbnail in the file manager.
   
3) The code has also been improved     

...

This is the new radiotray-ng script:

#!/bin/bash


  test1=$(pacmd list-sink-inputs | grep -A 2 'Radiotray-NG' | awk 'END{print}' | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//' | sed 's/media.title = "//' | sed 's/.$//' | awk -F' - ' '{print $1}' | sed 's/\\"//g' | sed 's/é/e/g' | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//' | sed 's/[ \t]*$//')
  
  test2=$(pacmd list-sink-inputs | grep -A 2 'Radiotray-NG' | awk 'END{print}' | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//' | sed 's/media.title = "//' | sed 's/.$//' | awk -F' - ' '{print $2}' | sed 's/\\"//g' | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//' | sed 's/[ \t]*$//')
  
  if [[ "$test1" == "$(sed -n '1p' $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_cover)" && "$test2" == "$(sed -n '2p' $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_cover)"  ]]; then
  
    exit 0
   
  fi
  
  echo $test1 > $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_cover
  echo $test2 >> $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_cover
  
  if [[ "$test1" == "" && "$test2" == ""  ]]; then
 
     cp $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/headphone.png $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.png
   
  else

    artist=$(sed -n '1p' $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_cover | sed 's/ /%20/g' | sed -e 's/$/%20-&/' | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]')
  
    song=$(sed -n '2p' $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_cover | sed 's/ /%20/g' | sed -e 's/$/\&size=medium&/' | sed 's/^/%20&/' | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]')
    
    curl -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:80.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/80.0' -o $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/image "https://aaaas.deno.dev?query=$artist$song"
  
    album_art=$(sed -n '1p' $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/image | sed 's/{"image":"//' | sed 's/"}//')
    
    if [[ "$album_art" == "" ]]; then
    
        cp $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/not_available.png $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.png
      
     else
        
        curl -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:80.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/80.0' -o $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.png "$album_art"         
        
        cat /dev/null > $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/image
        
#### Add the album_art.png thumbnail to the File Manager        
        
#        convert $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.png $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.png
        
#        cp $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.png $HOME/album_art.png
        
#### END - Add the album_art.png thumbnail to the File Manager        
    
    fi  
  
  fi
          
#### Disable conky when you turn off Radiotray-NG
  
  sleep 0.8
  
  test3=$(pacmd list-sink-inputs | grep 'radiotray-ng')
  
  if [[ "$test3" == "" ]]; then
  
     radiotray_conky=$(pgrep -a conky | awk '/RadioTray_NG/{print $1}')
  
     kill -SIGKILL $radiotray_conky

     > $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_cover
     
     thumbnail=$(ls | grep album_art)

     if [ -f "$thumbnail" ]; then
       
       rm $HOME/album_art.png
       
     fi  
    
  fi 

Notes *
1) Don't forget to make the script executable
2) Inside the ~/.conky/RadioTray_NG  folder, create an album_cover  file
3) Change the path to the new script (radiotray-ng) in the conky

I also wanted to install this on sid.

inxi -Sxxx
System:
  Host: carbon Kernel: 6.12.21-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 14.2.0 clocksource: tsc
  Desktop: Openbox v: 3.6.1 with: jgmenu,tint2 tools: light-locker vt: 7
    dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: BunsenLabs 13 (Carbon) base: Debian GNU/Linux
    trixie/sid

radiotray-ng

wget https://github.com/ebruck/radiotray-ng/releases/download/v0.2.9/radiotray-ng_0.2.9_ubuntu_24.04_amd64.deb -O radiotray-ng.deb

Unfortunately, I encountered unexpected difficulties with the libjsoncpp25 package, because this mandatory package does not (or no longer) exist in sid.

sudo apt install ./radiotray-ng.deb
...
Error: The following information from --solver 3.0 may provide additional context:
   Unable to satisfy dependencies. Reached two conflicting decisions:
   1. radiotray-ng:amd64=0.2.9 is selected for install
   2. radiotray-ng:amd64 Hängt ab von libjsoncpp25
      but none of the choices are installable:
      [no choices]

Does anyone have any advice? 

Last edited by unklar (2025-04-06 12:06:29)

marens

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Re: Show us your conky

^ Have you tried this?

sudo apt-get install -f

or:
https://github.com/ebruck/radiotray-ng? … an-package

$ git clone https://github.com/ebruck/radiotray-ng.git
$ cd radiotray-ng
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
$ make package
$ sudo dpkg -i ./radiotray-ng_x.y.z_<distro>_<i386|amd64>.deb
$ sudo apt-get install -f

If  radiotray-ng_0.2.9_ubuntu_24.04_amd64.deb  doesn't work try  radiotray-ng_0.2.9_ubuntu_20.04_amd64.deb  or  radiotray-ng_0.2.9_ubuntu_22.04_amd64.deb
https://github.com/ebruck/radiotray-ng/releases

P.S.
I know @johnraff uses radiotray-ng (I don't know which version) and you can expect a solution tomorrow if my advice didn't help.

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unklar

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From: #! BL

Registered: 2015-10-31

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Re: Show us your conky

Thank you @marens.

^ Have you tried this?

sudo apt-get install -f

^^Yes, of course I tried that.

APT itself also suggested

apt --fix-broken install

But, it can't do magic if the required dependency doesn't exist in sid.

Versions 20.04 and 22.04 have even more NOT installable packages than libjsoncpp25 in version 24.04 

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Show us your conky

Does anyone have any advice? 

Either add bookworm sources to draw in the dependency or build the package locally after modifying https://github.com/ebruck/radiotray-ng/ … eLists.txt to change libjsoncpp25 to https://packages.debian.org/trixie/libjsoncpp26 so the package has the correct dependencies (lines 61 & 67).

EDIT: also change "bookworm" to "trixie" in that file.

@marens: apt uses -f automatically when used to install .debs.

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2025-04-06 15:06:22)

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unklar

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From: #! BL

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Re: Show us your conky

@HoaS, you smart head! 

sudo apt install -t bookworm-backports libjsoncpp26

worked without any problems.
But, the error in radiotray-ng remains because libjsoncpp25 is expected.

Do I have to unpack the .deb with the archive management, change the lines 61 and 67 from 25 to 26 and pack it again? I have never unpacked and packed a .deb before. 

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Re: Show us your conky

I said to use bookworm's sources, not bookworm-backports.

To build a native trixie .deb package clone the git repository, modify the file I linked to, and then install the build dependencies and build the package.

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unklar

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Re: Show us your conky

^OK.
cmake installed. The errors are piling up...

 cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 14.2.0
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ - skipped
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-3.31/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:233 (message):
  Could NOT find CURL (missing: CURL_LIBRARY CURL_INCLUDE_DIR)
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /usr/share/cmake-3.31/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:603 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
  /usr/share/cmake-3.31/Modules/FindCURL.cmake:203 (find_package_handle_standard_args)
  CMakeLists.txt:34 (find_package)


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

I have now simply installed from the bookworm page:

sudo apt install ./libjsoncpp25_1.9.5-4_amd64.deb

finally

sudo apt install ./radiotray-ng.deb

radiotray-ng running. 

Thank you for your patience! 

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Show us your conky

  Could NOT find CURL (missing: CURL_LIBRARY CURL_INCLUDE_DIR)

Try

sudo apt install curl libcurlpp-dev

I have now simply installed from the bookworm page

If you install it from the repository instead it will be kept updated.

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marens

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Re: Show us your conky

radiotray-ng running. 

I'm glad you made it.

Just a few notes if you want to use my radiotray-ng script:

1) @HoaS already told you in the post above to install curl and that command is also needed for script

2) Download these images and Copy/Paste them into the folder ~/.conky/RadioTray_NG:
https://postimg.cc/phKKdBmm
https://postimg.cc/bdjy403h   ## > Rename image to not_available.png

3) I'm just using the image  ~/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.png   (top left - 128x128) in conky, but if (like @loutch) you're using a lua script remove the ' # ' at the beginning of this line:

#        convert $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.png $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.png

This is my  ~/.conky/RadioTray_NG/RadioTray_NG  conky:

${texeci 10 bash $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/radiotray-ng}\
${image $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.png -p 0,0 -s 128x128}

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unklar

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Re: Show us your conky

  Could NOT find CURL (missing: CURL_LIBRARY CURL_INCLUDE_DIR)

Try

sudo apt install curl libcurlpp-dev

I have now simply installed from the bookworm page

If you install it from the repository instead it will be kept updated.

I ignored curl because conky's are already active here with curl.

apt policy curl
curl:
  Installiert:           8.13.0-1
  Installationskandidat: 8.13.0-1
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 8.13.0-1 500
        500 https://deb.debian.org/debian trixie/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

apt policy libcurlpp-dev
libcurlpp-dev:
  Installiert:           (keine)
  Installationskandidat: 0.8.1-6
  Versionstabelle:
     0.8.1-6 500
        500 https://deb.debian.org/debian trixie/main amd64 Packages

I appreciate the update from the repo. But I wanted to test @marens' script first, because I kind of like it. 
Once again, thank you for your constructive help

unklar

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Re: Show us your conky

radiotray-ng running. 

I'm glad you made it.

Just a few notes if you want to use my radiotray-ng script:

1) @HoaS already told you in the post above to install curl and that command is also needed for script

2) Download these images and Copy/Paste them into the folder ~/.conky/RadioTray_NG:
https://postimg.cc/phKKdBmm
https://postimg.cc/bdjy403h   ## > Rename image to not_available.png

3) I'm just using the image  ~/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.png   (top left - 128x128) in conky, but if (like @loutch) you're using a lua script remove the ' # ' at the beginning of this line:

#        convert $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.png $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.png

This is my  ~/.conky/RadioTray_NG/RadioTray_NG  conky:

${texeci 10 bash $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/radiotray-ng}\
${image $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.png -p 0,0 -s 128x128}

@marens

Thanks for your help.

At the moment I can't get my head around 'album.cover; album.art' etc.pp. 
This is the terminal message:

conky: desktop window (0x49d) is root window
conky: window type - normal
conky: drawing to created window (0x4200001)
conky: drawing to double buffer
conky: forked to background, pid is 11609

conky: FOUND: wayland
conky: FOUND: x11
conky: FOUND: file
conky: FOUND: ncurses
conky: FOUND: console
conky: 'bunsenlabs' x11 session running 'BunsenLabs' desktop
conky: Unable to load image '/home/unklar/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.png'
No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.
No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.
sed: can't read /home/unklar/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_cover: No such file or directory
sed: can't read /home/unklar/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_cover: No such file or directory
conky: received SIGHUP, SIGINT, or SIGTERM to terminate. bye!
^C
[1]+  Fertig                  LANG=C conky -c ~/.conky/RadioTray_NG/radiotray_conky

Edit
Oh, yes, and this:

$ inxi -Axxx
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake PCH-P High Definition Audio vendor: Holco
    Enterprise Co /Shuttle driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3
    chip-ID: 8086:51c8 class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.12.21-amd64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.1 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin

Last edited by unklar (2025-04-07 09:43:07)

unklar

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From: #! BL

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Re: Show us your conky

OK
I understood about the album_cover file and image file. 

Now the terminal shows me the PulseAudioDaemon error as the only error.

unklar@carbon:~/.conky/RadioTray_NG/script$ ./radiotray-ng
No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.
No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.

In the conky itself the headphone.png(album_art.png) does not change.

marens

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Re: Show us your conky

^ My script uses pacmd.

From man pacmd:

NAME
       pacmd - Reconfigure a PulseAudio sound server during runtime

Your OS is different but I think you'll be able to solve it easily.
If you have qdbus and jq installed try:

  test1=$(qdbus com.github.radiotray_ng /com/github/radiotray_ng com.github.radiotray_ng.get_player_state | grep artist |sed 's/^.*" \: "//' |sed 's/",.*$//' | sed 's/é/e/g' | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//' | sed 's/[ \t]*$//')
  
  test2=$(qdbus com.github.radiotray_ng /com/github/radiotray_ng com.github.radiotray_ng.get_player_state | grep title  |sed 's/^.*" \: "//' |sed 's/",.*$//' | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//' | sed 's/[ \t]*$//')

For test3, we need the output when radiotray-ng is turned off:

$ qdbus com.github.radiotray_ng /com/github/radiotray_ng com.github.radiotray_ng.get_player_state

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unklar

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From: #! BL

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Re: Show us your conky

Can you/or my change the pacmd in the script?

wpctl status
PipeWire 'pipewire-0' [1.4.1, unklar@carbon, cookie:4105816793]
 └─ Clients:
        33. WirePlumber                         [1.4.1, unklar@carbon, pid:1543]
        34. pipewire                            [1.4.1, unklar@carbon, pid:1544]
        47. WirePlumber [export]                [1.4.1, unklar@carbon, pid:1543]
        58. PipeWire ALSA [pnmixer]             [1.4.1, unklar@carbon, pid:1712]
        59. xdg-desktop-portal                  [1.4.1, unklar@carbon, pid:1731]
        60. Blueman                             [1.4.1, unklar@carbon, pid:1742]
        64. wpctl                               [1.4.1, unklar@carbon, pid:33360]
        67. radiotray-ng                        [1.4.1, unklar@carbon, pid:28520]

Audio
 ├─ Devices:
 │      48. Internes Audio                      [alsa]
 │  
 ├─ Sinks:
 │  *   55. Internes Audio Analoges Stereo      [vol: 0.55]
 │  
 ├─ Sources:
 │      56. Internes Audio Analoges Stereo      [vol: 1.00]
 │  
 ├─ Filters:
 │  
 └─ Streams:
        61. radiotray-ng                                                
             62. output_FR       > ALC888-VD Analog:playback_FR	[active]
             63. output_FL       > ALC888-VD Analog:playback_FL	[active]

Video
 ├─ Devices:
 │  
 ├─ Sinks:
 │  
 ├─ Sources:
 │  
 ├─ Filters:
 │  
 └─ Streams:

Settings
 └─ Default Configured Devices:

Edit: Sorry, overlapped

Last edited by unklar (2025-04-07 13:57:35)

unklar

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From: #! BL

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Re: Show us your conky

OK. Changed qdbus.
The album_art.png file appears briefly and disappears again when the last message appears in the terminal (PulseAudio daemon).

conky: desktop window (0x49d) is root window
conky: window type - normal
conky: drawing to created window (0x2600001)
conky: drawing to double buffer
conky: forked to background, pid is 37039

conky: FOUND: wayland
conky: FOUND: x11
conky: FOUND: file
conky: FOUND: ncurses
conky: FOUND: console
conky: 'bunsenlabs' x11 session running 'BunsenLabs' desktop
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100    76  100    76    0     0    184      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   185
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 23810  100 23810    0     0   129k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  129k
No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.

However, it is still present in the directory until the next song (.png image).

I have to go now, sorry. See you tomorrow. 

Last edited by unklar (2025-04-07 14:59:14)

marens

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Re: Show us your conky

^ OK.
There is progress.

Can you give me the output for these commands when  radiotray-ng is playing?

$ qdbus com.github.radiotray_ng /com/github/radiotray_ng com.github.radiotray_ng.get_player_state | grep artist |sed 's/^.*" \: "//' |sed 's/",.*$//' | sed 's/é/e/g' | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//' | sed 's/[ \t]*$//'

$ qdbus com.github.radiotray_ng /com/github/radiotray_ng com.github.radiotray_ng.get_player_state | grep title  |sed 's/^.*" \: "//' |sed 's/",.*$//' | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//' | sed 's/[ \t]*$//'

Then open the file album_cover  (text editor) and check the contents.
Are there artist (line 1) and title (line 2)?

* and when  radiotray-ng doesn't play:

$ qdbus com.github.radiotray_ng /com/github/radiotray_ng com.github.radiotray_ng.get_player_state

EDIT

I assume this error occurred because we haven't replaced the test3 value yet:

No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.

Last edited by marens (2025-04-07 17:24:41)

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unklar

Back to the roots 1.9

From: #! BL

Registered: 2015-10-31

Posts: 2,717

Re: Show us your conky

qdbus com.github.radiotray_ng /com/github/radiotray_ng com.github.radiotray_ng.get_player_state | grep artist |sed 's/^.*" \: "//' |sed 's/",.*$//' | sed 's/é/e/g' | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//' | sed 's/[ \t]*$//'
Gianna Nannini

qdbus com.github.radiotray_ng /com/github/radiotray_ng com.github.radiotray_ng.get_player_state | grep title  |sed 's/^.*" \: "//' |sed 's/",.*$//' | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//' | sed 's/[ \t]*$//'
I maschi

Then open the file album_cover  (text editor) and check the contents.
Are there artist (line 1) and title (line 2)?

The file is empty

qdbus com.github.radiotray_ng /com/github/radiotray_ng com.github.radiotray_ng.get_player_state

{
    "artist" : "",
    "bitrate" : "",
    "codec" : "",
    "group" : "Pop / Rock",
    "image" : "radiotray-ng-notification",
    "mute" : false,
    "state" : "stopped",
    "station" : "Radio SwissPop",
    "title" : "",
    "url" : "",
    "volume" : "100"
}

Last edited by unklar (2025-04-07 19:04:34)

marens

Member

From: World without M$

Registered: 2023-02-02

Posts: 903

Re: Show us your conky

^ OK.
I don't have qdbus installed but I made a simulation.

Replace the lines:

  test3=$(pacmd list-sink-inputs | grep 'radiotray-ng')
  
  if [[ "$test3" == "" ]]; then

With:

  test3=$(qdbus com.github.radiotray_ng /com/github/radiotray_ng com.github.radiotray_ng.get_player_state | grep state | awk '{print$3}' | sed 's/"//g' | sed 's/,//g')
  
  if [[ "$test3" == "stopped" ]]; then

Also important is the line:

     radiotray_conky=$(pgrep -a conky | awk '/RadioTray_NG/{print $1}')

Inside the awk command is the NAME (not the path) of your conky.

P.S.
When  radiotray-ng  plays in  album_cover   file you should have  artist (line 1) and  title (line 2).
When  radiotray-ng  is not playing the file  album_cover  is  empty.

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If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.