So here’s my situation. I regularly cast music from my phone (Using Play Music and/or Youtube Music) to my whole house using a speaker group that contains a Google Home, a couple Home Minis, and Chromecasts. That all works great. The problem is my Home Assistant server runs in Docker for Windows, so I can’t figure out a way to get Discovery working. Thus no discovery = no Google cast group media players in HA. Is there any other way to access the currently playing information direct from my Google account as a sensor, or is there another way to deal with this?
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Not a solution, more of a workaround
If you use last FM, you could scrobble tracks to it, and use the last FM sensor to get track information. In my experience, there’s quite a bit of latency in this approach, and depending on the player and scrobbler combination you’ve got, it may not even scrobble until the track is ended.