BRP Voting Plugin - Allow others to vote for your songs!

[datcomputerguy]

So I use different playlists for different things, like a background, after hours, and main show.  The voting page always shows the next playlist regardless of what it is.  So I added a little filter in there that would ignore playlists that began with "111", I wanted to use ~ but they don't allow that character apparently lol.

In my main sequence I also have intermissions, so those sequence names I don't want to appear in the voting list.  So I added a little filter to not consider sequence/songs that begin with ~, so the voting page looks nice and clean.

The other feature I added was to ignore manually run sequences/playlists.  I had some people voting while I was running a test sequence and spent an hour working on my sequence and everything before noticing that it was the voting plugin changing things lol.  I think this should be a config checkmark or something, but for my use I just ignored it completely.

Another thing that I've had some complaints about was the time being in 24 hour format.  Which I know you just pull from the FPP API.  was going to look into the FPP settings to see if that's something I can change there or if I need to add a converter in the python code.

so the basic change are:
around line 287 after if status_iteration and before if current_show status.........

if status_iteration >= 60:
            status_iteration = 0
            check_show_uploaded()

        #patrick addition
        if current_playlist_type == 'sequence':
            logging.info('Not currently playing a playlist, only a song')
            playing_songs = False
            return
			
    if current_show_status != show_status:
        show_status = current_show_status
        upload_show_playing_status()

And around line 131

     else:
            logging.info('use media names')
            if 'mediaName' in song:
                title = str(song['mediaName'])
            elif 'sequenceName' in song:
                title = str(song['sequenceName'])
            else:
                title = 'Unknown'

        #this was added by patrick   
        if("~" in title):
            print("ignore this song")
        else:  #add it to the list to be sent
            song_names.append({"id": idx, "title": title})

    payload = {
        'privateKey': private_key,
        'songs': song_names,
        'status': get_show_status(),
        'nextShow': start_time,
        'pluginVersion': plugin_version
    }

I've used GitHub for my own projects but never really collaborated with anyone on one.  I think one of my conditionals sometimes causes it to not send any data until fpp is restarted, but haven't dug into it that far.  Just did this in an hour or so, so I know its not perfect lol.

[datcomputerguy]

Actually now that I'm thinking about it I didn't do the manual thing.  only if the sequence had ~ in it.

[Barkers Random Projects]

So I use different playlists for different things, like a background, after hours, and main show.  The voting page always shows the next playlist regardless of what it is.  So I added a little filter in there that would ignore playlists that began with "111", I wanted to use ~ but they don't allow that character apparently lol.

In my main sequence I also have intermissions, so those sequence names I don't want to appear in the voting list.  So I added a little filter to not consider sequence/songs that begin with ~, so the voting page looks nice and clean.

The other feature I added was to ignore manually run sequences/playlists.  I had some people voting while I was running a test sequence and spent an hour working on my sequence and everything before noticing that it was the voting plugin changing things lol.  I think this should be a config checkmark or something, but for my use I just ignored it completely.

Another thing that I've had some complaints about was the time being in 24 hour format.  Which I know you just pull from the FPP API.  was going to look into the FPP settings to see if that's something I can change there or if I need to add a converter in the python code.

Very nice! That is awesome, and thanks for sharing! I wonder if people would find it useful to add a setting on the plugins page to ignore all songs that start with some value, just like how you've done.


For the time it is pulled directly from falcon player. I was planning on formatting that on the server side, but maybe it makes better sense to format it on the client and then send it to the server

[Barkers Random Projects]

I did another update:

• Added the ability to add basic HTML to the top of the page
• Basic song voting stats are listed on the bottom of the brp voting page (this will be and look much better next season!)
• Added ability to allow dupicate votes (for testing purposes)

I'll be monitoring the HTML being inserted on the site. Stuff like script tags will be filtered out, and there will be a cap of 500 characters, but everything else will work!

Let me know what you think!

[lxkev]

My Plugin isn't displaying a Web address when I start the service?

[disorderlywires]

Mine isn't working either I am FPP 5.4.1 and upgraded to latest BRP voting plugin...

[Barkers Random Projects]

It looks like the plugin is having issues with the latest version of FPP - I'll get an update for this in the next day or so. Thanks for letting me know!

[plaberge]

'll get an update for this in the next day or so.'

Much appreciated! It was a big hit last Christmas, people really liked being able to pick the next song.

[disorderlywires]

It looks like the plugin is having issues with the latest version of FPP - I'll get an update for this in the next day or so. Thanks for letting me know!

Thank you so much, my viewers have been asking!

[Barkers Random Projects]

Thank you so much, my viewers have been asking!

Sorry for the delay, I've pushed an updated for the plugin. Try updating the plugin in FPP and let me know if that works.

Thanks!

[plaberge]

Thank you! The updated plug-in works great! Much appreciated!

A note to anyone using this plug-in. Make sure that the Randomize Playlist feature is OFF, otherwise, you will get random results

[Barkers Random Projects]

Thank you! The updated plug-in works great! Much appreciated!

A note to anyone using this plug-in. Make sure that the Randomize Playlist feature is OFF, otherwise, you will get random results

Thanks for that feedback! Looks like there is some more work to do here with the plugin.

[disorderlywires]

Thank you so much, my viewers have been asking!

Sorry for the delay, I've pushed an updated for the plugin. Try updating the plugin in FPP and let me know if that works.

Thanks!

Working great over here!  Thank you so much for this!

[Daveperkes]

I get the following while installing:
Installing plugin brp-fpp-voting
Cloning into 'brp-fpp-voting'...
Running fpp_install.sh script for brp-fpp-voting
+ sudo apt-get update
Get:1 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian buster InRelease [32.6 kB]
Get:2 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster InRelease [15.0 kB]
Reading package lists...
E: Repository 'http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster InRelease' changed its 'Suite' value from 'stable' to 'oldstable'
E: Repository 'http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian buster InRelease' changed its 'Suite' value from 'testing' to 'oldstable'
+ python3 -m pip install requests
/usr/bin/python3: No module named pip
+ python3 -m pip install requests python-crontab
/usr/bin/python3: No module named pip
{"Status":"Error","Message":"Could not properly install plugin"}

[Daveperkes]

Having a problem installing. See the following:
Installing plugin brp-fpp-voting
Cloning into 'brp-fpp-voting'...
Running fpp_install.sh script for brp-fpp-voting
+ sudo apt-get update
Get:1 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian buster InRelease [32.6 kB]
Get:2 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster InRelease [15.0 kB]
Reading package lists...
E: Repository 'http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster InRelease' changed its 'Suite' value from 'stable' to 'oldstable'
E: Repository 'http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian buster InRelease' changed its 'Suite' value from 'testing' to 'oldstable'
+ python3 -m pip install requests
/usr/bin/python3: No module named pip
+ python3 -m pip install requests python-crontab
/usr/bin/python3: No module named pip
{"Status":"Error","Message":"Could not properly install plugin"}