spotify-jbl-remote

Turn your JBL speaker into a remote for Spotify!

Developed and tested with JBL GO nearby. Can't gurantee all JBL speakers support.

Sooner or later will be able to test it with JBL Clip 2.

What the hell is this?

This is a userspace "driver" for JBL to properly interact with Spotify Desktop on linux.

Requirements

Please note this is linux-only.

At some point I'll publish pre-built executables, but for now you have to build it yourself, therefore you need cargo installed on your system.

Build

$ make build
$ ls target/release/spotify-jbl-remote

Install (after build) - optional, I guess

1. Puts executable at /usr/bin/
2. Adds udev rule for JBL (so you don't have to have mess with privileges and groups).

$ sudo make install

Usage

1. Run Spotfiy Desktop
2. Run spotify-jbl-remote (skip this if you created background task - see below):

   $ ./spotify-jbl-remote

3. Now you can control spotify with Action button on your JBL speaker!

Default event handle 'driver' mapping:

• Press #1: Play
• Press #2: Pause
• Double press: Next track

There are other 'driver's available. Personally, I like play-pause most.

Background task (optional)

get ready to sweat

See background task

Why?

1. For some reason JBL GO's signals have no effect on spotify client on linux.
2. Actually useful pet project
3. To learn Rust
4. To learn more about input events in linux

TODO:

• Autosearch for JBL input event dev file
• Comments
• Basic spotify support (pause/unpause/next track)
• Option to use PlayPause interface instead of Play+Pause
• Poll mode
• Way to run it in the background
• Poll timeout
• Build guide
• Privileges setup guide
• Invalid file proper handling
• Usage guide
• Other JBL models support