Conky Rhythmbox Python Script

[Pablo Pablovski]

Cavsfan, I tried your conky / template combuination and found I wasn't getting the image displayed at all for some reason. So, I had a play about with them and found that if I moved the image variable to the top of the template file, the image displayed properly - right size, position.

Here's the amended template:

${image [--datatype=CA] -n -p 0,0 -s 80x80}
${color3}Status:${color1}[--datatype=ST]
${color3}Artist:${color1}[--datatype=AR]
${color3}Album:${color1}[--datatype=AL]
${color3}Title:${color1}[--datatype=TI]
${color3}Position:${color1}[--datatype=PT]/[--datatype=LE] - [--datatype=PP]%
${color3}Rating:${color1}[--datatype=RT]
${color3}Volume:${color1}[--datatype=VO]

You might need to play about with positioning and size of the text to get everything as you want it - I had to move the "Rhythmbox Is Now Playing" line down a bit to get it lined up.

Fingers crossed!

PP

[Cavsfan]

Cavsfan, I tried your conky / template combuination and found I wasn't getting the image displayed at all for some reason. So, I had a play about with them and found that if I moved the image variable to the top of the template file, the image displayed properly - right size, position.

Here's the amended template:

${image [--datatype=CA] -n -p 0,0 -s 80x80}
${color3}Status:${color1}[--datatype=ST]
${color3}Artist:${color1}[--datatype=AR]
${color3}Album:${color1}[--datatype=AL]
${color3}Title:${color1}[--datatype=TI]
${color3}Position:${color1}[--datatype=PT]/[--datatype=LE] - [--datatype=PP]%
${color3}Rating:${color1}[--datatype=RT]
${color3}Volume:${color1}[--datatype=VO]

You might need to play about with positioning and size of the text to get everything as you want it - I had to move the "Rhythmbox Is Now Playing" line down a bit to get it lined up.

Fingers crossed!

PP

I wish I had read your post before I did what kaivalagi suggested and posted in the post your conky and screenshot thread!

Viola! That worked perfectly!!! Well, the picture resized perfectly at least.
The picture is perfectly placed, but there is some garbage at the bottom where the only thing I would think is displayed is volume.

Here is a screen of it while playing and it looks good except for the weird stuff where volume should be.



And here is a screen when the song gets done and you can see there is still garbage where volume should be, just different garbage.



Thanks for your help!

[Laggg]

I'm having trouble getting Rhythmbox working on my conky set-up. Here is what I get when I type: 'conkyRhythmbox -v'

*** INITIAL OPTIONS:
    datatype: TI
    template: None
    ratingchar: *
    nounknownoutput: False
    secondsoutput: False
    maxlength: 0
    verbose: True
    errorlogfile: None
    infologfile: None
INFO: Calling dbus interface for music data
INFO: Setting up dbus interface
INFO: Calling dbus interface for music data
INFO: Preparing output for datatype:TI
Rusko b2b Markle (12-Jul-2007)

Here is my ~/.conkyrc

######################
# - Conky settings - #
######################
update_interval 1
total_run_times 0
net_avg_samples 1
cpu_avg_samples 1

imlib_cache_size 0
double_buffer yes
no_buffers yes

format_human_readable

#####################
# - Text settings - #
#####################
use_xft yes
xftfont Droid Sans:size=9
override_utf8_locale yes
text_buffer_size 2048

#############################
# - Window specifications - #
#############################
own_window_class Conky
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

alignment top_right
gap_x 25
gap_y 40
minimum_size 182 0
maximum_width 182

default_bar_size 60 8

#########################
# - Graphics settings - #
#########################
draw_shades no

default_color 3C3B37

color0 292927
color1 C6B9A6
color2 292927

TEXT
${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}Maverick Meerkat $stippled_hr${font}
##############
# - SYSTEM - #
##############
${color0}${voffset 6}${font OpenLogos:size=19}u${font}${color}${goto 32}${voffset -14}Kernel:  ${alignr}${color2}${kernel}${color}
${goto 32}Uptime: ${alignr}${color2}${uptime}${color}
# |--UPDATES
${goto 32}Updates: ${alignr}${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}${color1}${execi 360 aptitude search "~U" | wc -l | tail}${color}${font} ${color2}Packages${color}
# |--CPU
${offset 1}${color0}${font Poky:size=16}P${font}${offset -19}${voffset 9}${cpubar cpu0 4,18}${color}${voffset -16}${goto 32}CPU1: ${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}${color1}${cpu cpu1}%${font} ${alignr}${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}${color1}${execi 30 sensors | grep 'Core 0' | cut -c15-16}°C${color}${font}  ${color2}${cpugraph 0 8,50 104E8B 0077ff}${color}
${goto 32}CPU2: ${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}${color1}${cpu cpu2}%${font} ${alignr}${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}${color1}${execi 30 sensors | grep 'Core 1' | cut -c15-16}°C${color}${font}  ${color2}${cpugraph cpu2 8,50 104E8B 0077ff}${color}
${goto 32}CPU3: ${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}${color1}${cpu cpu3}%${font} ${alignr}${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}${color1}${execi 30 sensors | grep 'Core 2' | cut -c15-16}°C${color}${font}  ${color2}${cpugraph cpu3 8,50 104E8B 0077ff}${color}
# |--MEM
${color0}${font Poky:size=16}M${font}${color}${goto 32}${voffset -7}RAM: ${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}${color1}$memperc%${color}${font}
${offset 1}${voffset 2}${color0}${membar 4,18}${color}${goto 32}${voffset -2}F: ${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}${color2}${memeasyfree}${color}${font} U: ${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}${color2}${mem}${color}${font}
# |--CPU
${voffset 2}${color0}${font Poky:size=14}s${font}${color}${voffset -8}${goto 32}SWAP: ${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}${color1}${swapperc}%${color}${font}
${voffset 4}${offset 1}${color0}${swapbar 4,18}${color}${voffset -4}${goto 32}F: ${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}${color2}$swapmax${color}${font} U: ${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}${color2}$swap${color}${font}
# |--PROC
${voffset 2}${color0}${font Poky:size=15}a${font}${color}${goto 32}${voffset -10}Processes: ${color2}${alignr 13}CPU${alignr}RAM${color}
${voffset -1}${goto 42}${color2}${top name 1}${color}${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}${color1} ${goto 124}${top cpu 1}${alignr }${top mem 1}${color}${font}
${voffset -1}${goto 42}${color2}${top name 2}${color}${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}${color1} ${goto 124}${top cpu 2}${alignr }${top mem 2}${color}${font}
${voffset -1}${goto 42}${color2}${top name 3}${color}${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}${color1} ${goto 124}${top cpu 3}${alignr }${top mem 3}${color}${font}
#############
# - CLOCK - #
#############
${voffset 4}${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}DATE $stippled_hr${font}
${voffset -12}${goto 28}${font Arial Black:size=38}${color2}${time %H}${color}${font}${voffset -28}${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=11}${color2}${time :%M}${time :%S}${color}${font}
${voffset -2}${goto 100}${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}${color2}${time %A}${color}${font}
${goto 100}${time %d %b %Y}
################
# - CALENDAR - #
################
${voffset -2}${color0}${font Poky:size=16}D${font}${voffset -8}${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=7}${offset -17}${voffset 4}${time %d}${font}${color}${voffset -1}${font Droid Sans Mono:size=7}${execpi 300 DJS=`date +%_d`; cal |sed '2,7!d'| sed '/./!d' | sed 's/^/${goto 32} /'| sed 's/$/ /' | sed 's/^/ /' | sed /" $DJS "/s/" $DJS "/" "'${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}${color1}'"$DJS"'${color}${font Droid Sans Mono:size=7}'" "/}${voffset -1}
####################
# - MEDIA PLAYER - #
####################
${voffset 4}${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}MEDIA PLAYER $stippled_hr${font}
${execi 6 /home/realeyes/.conkycolors/bin/conkyCover}${execpi 2 conkyRhythmbox -t /home/realeyes/.conkycolors/templates/conkyPlayer.template}
#
#${color4}Template Output:
#${color1}${execp conkyRhythmbox --template=/usr/share/conkyrhythmbox/example/#conkyRhythmbox.template}

#${color4}Standard Output:
#${voffset 5}${color4} Title:  ${color1}${font}${exec conkyRhythmbox --datatype=TI} 
#${color4} Position:  ${color1}${font}${exec conkyRhythmbox --datatype=PT}/${exec #conkyRhythmbox --datatype=LE}
###############
# - NETWORK - #
###############
${voffset 4}${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}NETWORK $stippled_hr${font}
# |--WLAN0
${if_up wlan0}
${voffset -13}${color0}${font VariShapes Solid:size=14}q${font}${color}${goto 32}${voffset -6}Up: ${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}${color1}${upspeed wlan0}${color}${font} ${alignr}${color2}${upspeedgraph wlan0 8,60 104E8B 0077ff}${color}
${goto 32}Total: ${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}${color2}${totalup wlan0}${color}${font}
${voffset -2}${color0}${font VariShapes Solid:size=14}Q${font}${color}${goto 32}${voffset -6}Down: ${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}${color1}${downspeed wlan0}${color}${font} ${alignr}${color2}${downspeedgraph wlan0 8,60 104E8B 0077ff}${color}
${goto 32}Total: ${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}${color2}${totaldown wlan0}${color}${font}
${voffset -2}${color0}${font Poky:size=14}Y${font}${color}${goto 32} ${voffset -2}Signal: ${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}${color1}${wireless_link_qual wlan0}%${color}${font} ${alignr}${color2}${wireless_link_bar 8,60 wlan0}${color}
${voffset 4}${color0}${font Poky:size=13}w${font}${color}${goto 32}${voffset -8}Local IP: ${alignr}${color2}${addr wlan0}${color}
${goto 32}Public IP: ${alignr}${color2}${execi 10800 /usr/share/conkycolors/bin/conkyIp}${color}
# |--ETH0
${else}${if_up eth0}
${voffset -13}${color0}${font VariShapes Solid:size=14}q${font}${color}${goto 32}${voffset -6}Up: ${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}${color1}${upspeed eth0}${color}${font} ${alignr}${color2}${upspeedgraph eth0 8,60 104E8B 0077ff}${color}
${goto 32}Total: ${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}${color2}${totalup eth0}${color}${font}
${voffset -2}${color0}${font VariShapes Solid:size=14}Q${font}${color}${goto 32}${voffset -6}Down: ${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}${color1}${downspeed eth0}${color}${font} ${alignr}${color2}${downspeedgraph eth0 8,60 104E8B 0077ff}${color}
${goto 32}Total: ${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}${color2}${totaldown eth0}${color}${font}
${voffset -2}${color0}${font Poky:size=13}w${font}${color}${goto 32}${voffset -4}Local IP: ${alignr}${color2}${addr eth0}${color}
${goto 32}Public IP: ${alignr}${color2}${execi 10800 /usr/share/conkycolors/bin/conkyIp}${color}
# |--PPP0
${else}${if_up ppp0}
${voffset -13}${color0}${font VariShapes Solid:size=14}q${font}${color}${goto 32}${voffset -6}Up: ${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}${color1}${upspeed ppp0}${color}${font} ${alignr}${color2}${upspeedgraph ppp0 8,60 104E8B 0077ff}${color}
${goto 32}Total: ${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}${color2}${totalup ppp0}${color}${font}
${voffset -2}${color0}${font VariShapes Solid:size=14}Q${font}${color}${goto 32}${voffset -6}Down: ${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}${color1}${downspeed ppp0}${color}${font} ${alignr}${color2}${downspeedgraph ppp0 8,60 104E8B 0077ff}${color}
${goto 32}Total: ${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}${color2}${totaldown ppp0}${color}${font}
${voffset -2}${color0}${font Poky:size=13}w${font}${color}${goto 32}${voffset -4}Local IP: ${alignr}${color2}${addr ppp0}${color}
${else}${voffset 4}${color0}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=12}4${font}${color}${goto 32}Network Unavailable${voffset 14}${endif}${endif}${endif}

Can anyone help me get my Rhythmbox working? Is there anything else I need to post? My Rhythmbox.py script or something? Any help appreciated.

[Pablo Pablovski]

I wish I had read your post before I did what kaivalagi suggested and posted in the post your conky and screenshot thread!

Viola! That worked perfectly!!! Well, the picture resized perfectly at least.
The picture is perfectly placed, but there is some garbage at the bottom where the only thing I would think is displayed is volume.

Here is a screen of it while playing and it looks good except for the weird stuff where volume should be.



And here is a screen when the song gets done and you can see there is still garbage where volume should be, just different garbage.



Thanks for your help!

Excellent - progress!

I'm beginning to think there's a problem with the conkyrhythmbox script (sorry, kaivalagi...) such that the last entry in a template file doesn't display correctly. While I was testing your script, console errors of the "unknown command {ima}" variety appeared. At that point, the "image" variable was last in in the template.

To test, kill conky and re-run it from the console - note down any error messages and post them.

You could also try moving the template contents back to the main conky script. I haven't tried doing that yet, but there's a chance it'll work ok - in which case, the problem looks to be in the parsing of the template.

[kaivalagi]

I wish I had read your post before I did what kaivalagi suggested and posted in the post your conky and screenshot thread!

It might be worth posting what worked though, I suspect conky has a bug...?

Viola! That worked perfectly!!! Well, the picture resized perfectly at least.

Glad you got it working anyway

I'm beginning to think there's a problem with the conkyrhythmbox script (sorry, kaivalagi...) such that the last entry in a template file doesn't display correctly. While I was testing your script, console errors of the "unknown command {ima}" variety appeared. At that point, the "image" variable was last in in the template.

To test, kill conky and re-run it from the console - note down any error messages and post them.

You could also try moving the template contents back to the main conky script. I haven't tried doing that yet, but there's a chance it'll work ok - in which case, the problem looks to be in the parsing of the template.

Mmmmm, I would think it's the parsing execp/execpi having issue as this hasn't been a problem before now. In fact I use the same template file consuming code in all my scripts, my forecast one for example has images on the last line:

...
${color1}${font Liberation Sans:style=Bold:size=9}[--datatype=DW --centeredwidth=15 --startday=3]
${voffset 70}${color1}${font}[--datatype=CT --centeredwidth=15 --startday=3]
${color1}${font}[--datatype=HT --centeredwidth=7 --startday=3]/[--datatype=LT --centeredwidth=7 --startday=3]
${color1}${font}[--datatype=WS --imperial --centeredwidth=15 --startday=3]
${color1}${font}[--datatype=WD --centeredwidth=15 --startday=3]
${color2}${hr}
${image [--datatype=WI] -p 5,60 -s 64x64}
${image [--datatype=WI --startday=0] -p 5,205 -s 64x64}
${image [--datatype=WI --startday=1] -p 5,355 -s 64x64}
${image [--datatype=WI --startday=2] -p 5,505 -s 64x64}
${image [--datatype=WI --startday=3] -p 5,650 -s 64x64}
${image [--datatype=MI] -p 53,60 -s 16x16}

What happens if you put a simple carriage return on the last line of the template, still having images rendered from the end of the template?

[kaivalagi]

Can anyone help me get my Rhythmbox working? Is there anything else I need to post? My Rhythmbox.py script or something? Any help appreciated.

The conkyRhythmbox -v output looks fine, TI is the default datatype if not set and that's what you got output for.

What happens if you run this command in the terminal/console i.e. the one doing stuff in your conkyrc:

conkyRhythmbox -t /home/realeyes/.conkycolors/templates/conkyPlayer.template --verbose

You may also what to delete the lines after this command in your conkyrc that are currently commended out, the conkyrc is not a true script so expect strange behaviour due to lots of lines commended out such as conky windows being longer than you want etc.

[Pablo Pablovski]

Mmmmm, I would think it's the parsing execp/execpi having issue as this hasn't been a problem before now. In fact I use the same template file consuming code in all my scripts, my forecast one for example has images on the last line:

...
${color1}${font Liberation Sans:style=Bold:size=9}[--datatype=DW --centeredwidth=15 --startday=3]
${voffset 70}${color1}${font}[--datatype=CT --centeredwidth=15 --startday=3]
${color1}${font}[--datatype=HT --centeredwidth=7 --startday=3]/[--datatype=LT --centeredwidth=7 --startday=3]
${color1}${font}[--datatype=WS --imperial --centeredwidth=15 --startday=3]
${color1}${font}[--datatype=WD --centeredwidth=15 --startday=3]
${color2}${hr}
${image [--datatype=WI] -p 5,60 -s 64x64}
${image [--datatype=WI --startday=0] -p 5,205 -s 64x64}
${image [--datatype=WI --startday=1] -p 5,355 -s 64x64}
${image [--datatype=WI --startday=2] -p 5,505 -s 64x64}
${image [--datatype=WI --startday=3] -p 5,650 -s 64x64}
${image [--datatype=MI] -p 53,60 -s 16x16}

What happens if you put a simple carriage return on the last line of the template, still having images rendered from the end of the template?

If I do that with Cavsfan's script, the image isn't displayed, though the correct details for "Volume" are output. Same if I delete the CR on the end of the line.

When I move the image variable to the top, it displays, but the "volume" output doesn't. I'm presuming a conky with "bottom left" alignment expands "up the screen" (in the same way that one with "top right" alignment expands "down the screen") so the more lines of output that conky displays, the further up the screen the output will start.

I tried adding a copy of the Volume variable to the bottom of the template:

${image [--datatype=CA] -n -p 0,0 -s 80x80}
${color3}Status:${color1}[--datatype=ST]
${color3}Artist:${color1}[--datatype=AR]
${color3}Album:${color1}[--datatype=AL]
${color3}Title:${color1}[--datatype=TI]
${color3}Position:${color1}[--datatype=PT]/[--datatype=LE] - [--datatype=PP]%
${color3}Rating:${color1}[--datatype=RT]
${color3}Volume:${color1}[--datatype=VO]
${color3}Volume:${color1}[--datatype=VO]

to see if it's just the last variable that doesn't get actioned, but the volume didn't display even then, although I do get spurious output (see the screenshot). I also get theses errors in console:

Conky: unknown variable col

So, still looks like a parsing issue somewhere. Apologies for maligning your excellent script earlier - you're right, of course - it looks like a conky isuse.

[kaivalagi]

I also get theses errors in console:

Conky: unknown variable col

Ooooo, this could be a big clue!

"${col" could be a truncated "${color3}" etc, try upping the text buffer size in conky, it might be running out of buffer for all this text which would explain all the bizarre unexplainable behaviour with the images etc

Copied from the first post of the forecast script:

Conky has a default limitation of 128 bytes for any text output from a variable (such as execi). If you are creating large templates with more characters than the default buffer size can handle, the output will get truncated. If this happens you can override the default behaviour by setting as new buffer size before the TEXT section in your conkyrc file, as follows:

text_buffer_size 1024

Just keep increasing it until the script works okay...

So, still looks like a parsing issue somewhere. Apologies for maligning your excellent script earlier - you're right, of course - it looks like a conky isuse.

No worries, I'll be the first to admit a fault with the script and fix it, it's just not changed enough for a long time to be it

[Pablo Pablovski]

Ooooo, this could be a big clue!

"${col" could be a truncated "${color3}" etc, try upping the text buffer size in conky, it might be running out of buffer for all this text which would explain all the bizarre unexplainable behaviour with the images etc

Copied from the first post of the forecast script:

Conky has a default limitation of 128 bytes for any text output from a variable (such as execi). If you are creating large templates with more characters than the default buffer size can handle, the output will get truncated. If this happens you can override the default behaviour by setting as new buffer size before the TEXT section in your conkyrc file, as follows:

text_buffer_size 1024

Just keep increasing it until the script works okay...

Yes! That's it! I changed it to 1024 - still the same issue. Upped it to 2048, and - to use Cavsfan's term - voila! Perfect output. Screenie att.

Now all we need to do is wait for Cavsfan to turn up and try it out...

[Cavsfan]

text_buffer_size 1024

Thanks to both of you! This was my whole problem! My .conkyrc did not have this variable in it.
When I added it everything looks perfect! I put everything in the template and put the album art line at the top.

I changed maximum_width from 280 to 320 too.



Now, if someone could help me figure out how to get my cpu temperature folder back for my 3rd core I would be happy as a clam!
When I updated to the new kernel the other day it some how deleted a folder that tells conky the cpu temp. of my 3rd core!

The other 3 are still there and I cannot figure out how to get the missing one back.
Please see this thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1629933

Thanks!