Android podcast app with homeassistant integration?

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Can anyone recommend a standalone podcast app for android with decent home assistant integration?
Please & thanks!

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https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/pocketcasts/ ??

edit: Or maybe not… just installed it and getting a 405 error on attempted signin

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I control PocketCasts with Tasker and Join. It’s a kludge but the only real viable solution I’ve found so far.

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Mind sharing how you do that? I use tasker and join as well.

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I’m already using pocketcasts so I’d be very interested if you could elaborate on your setup!

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@atomicpapa @killthewiseone sure. I’m going to assume you’re somewhat familiar with Tasker and Join so you know how to trigger Tasker commands via Join. If not, I can elaborate some more.

First, here’s a link to a list of the PocketCasts intents: https://www.reddit.com/r/TaskerFiles/comments/30hhon/intents_pocket_casts/

So you set up a Tasker task to do what you want (in my case, just play/pause). Then in Tasker I create a trigger based on Join and then use the “Text” option to trigger based on received text. So let’s say I want to pause, i’d use “Podcast Pause” as the text.

Next in HomeAssistant, create an automation/script and use the Join send_tasker service call and the command of, in my case, “Podcast Pause.”

That should be all you need. Again, high level overview, but if you need some more detail let me know.

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