Getting Adafruit 532 @ UART to work in incompatible project?

Hi everyone,

I am building a NFC/RFID musicbox for my 1 year old daughter, so she can start her own music. I was initially inspired by this project: http://shawnrk.github.io/songblocks/ but I do not have Sonos, and wanted something a bit different. I was very pleased to find the Phoniebix / RPi-Jukebox-RFID project https://github.com/MiczFlor/RPi-Jukebox-RFID

The reader I am using is the Adafruit PN532 breakout board: https://www.adafruit.com/product/364 and I was quickly able to get it reading my tags with the provided guide: https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-nfc-rfid-on-raspberry-pi/overview

Also, though I know absolutely nothing about coding, I was quickly able to set up RPi-Jukebox-RFID, and get everything working except for the reading part. The project is made for USB readers, but they it can be used with non-usb: https://github.com/MiczFlor/RPi-Jukebox-RFID/wiki/RFID-Reader-Special

I have been trying for so many hours, that I am about to realize I do not have the skills to get this working. I am fairly sure it is something in the Python scripts that needs to be adjusted to look for my reader. I assume the answer lies in some of the other projects using this reader, such as the aforementioned https://github.com/shawnrk/songblocks

I have submitted my issue to the github of RPi-Jukebox-RFID, where I have described some of the things I have tried:https://github.com/MiczFlor/RPi-Jukebox-RFID/issues/421

Anyone got any tips or think they can help me out? I will be happy to pay a little donation to whoever solves it for me :)

I am currently considering either:

Buying some developer help to get this solved.

Buying an Arduino Uno and trying to see if it works over USB as is done in this guide: https://github.com/MusicBoxProject

Buying a SONOS Play:1 to try and recreate http://shawnrk.github.io/songblocks/

Reference knowledge:

A similar readers instructions of how to use it in SPI mode, where mine is currently in UART mode. http://wiki.sunfounder.cc/index.php?title=PN532_NFC_Module_for_Raspberry_Pi

Guide for getting my reader into SPI mode on RPi: https://github.com/laricchia/Adafruit_Python_PN532/

A similar project: https://github.com/MusicBoxProject

Another similar project: https://github.com/MusicBoxProject

Discussion on similar topic: https://github.com/MiczFlor/RPi-Jukebox-RFID/issues/11