Karaoke

Sing along in the kitchen. Canora (Latin canorus, "melodious") turns your clock into a
karaoke display: the lyrics of the song that is playing, in time with the music.

What you see

• Top row: the words being sung right now. They light up from grey to amber as the song goes on.
• Bottom row: the next words, so you can read ahead. When the top row is done, everything moves up.
• Intros and solos: the song title, and a countdown of three dots before the singing starts again.

Canora only takes over the display while a song with lyrics is playing. On pause, stop, or a
song without lyrics, your normal app rotation continues. Press a button to hand the display back
until the next song.

What you need

• Home Assistant with MQTT and any media player that shows artist, title and song length:
  Google Cast, Sonos, Music Assistant, Spotify and more. Exact timing where the player reports
  its playback position, an approximate mode otherwise.
• The free blueprint that sends the track to the clock. Setup guide, blueprint import button
  and troubleshooting: https://github.com/exradice/canora

Settings

• Topic prefix of this clock (required): copy the Topic prefix from the clock's MQTT
  settings. Canora receives the music on <prefix>/data/canora; the blueprint finds the same
  topic from the clock's MQTT prefix sensor in Home Assistant.
• Lyrics offset: if the words light up too late, a positive value (300 = 0.3 s earlier).
• Colors for sung and not yet sung words and for the title.

Good to know

• Lyrics come live from LRCLIB, a free community database. Missing a song?
  Add it there. The script sends artist, title and duration to lrclib.net; nothing is stored.
• Words inside a line are timed by an estimate, because LRCLIB has one timestamp per line.
• Made for the 52×16 display (Ulanzi TC002).