From the appdaemon thread but on this the topic here
I do have the instructions for oauth in the appdaemon version, need to get that transferred. I’m not sure how you go about it on hass.io though. It’s the only reason I set legacy as the default login and included those instructions. I figured it’s easier for most people since hass.io has taken over.
If you are using the legacy login you can sign in using App Passwords to avoid exposing you actual password. I think it’s a decent middle ground if you are unable to create the oauth credentials file.
You are correct though, oauth login is very much prefered.
A custom component card would be awesome and I would certainly appreciate some help and advice in the code department! I’ve wrote some simple bash scripts before but otherwise only have a whole 2 months experience with python or any other programming for that matter.
To get rid of the input selects I do already the list of both available playlists and stations in the gmsuic_player attributes. I was thinking to take shortcut and just use media_player.select_source to set the speakers but I just don’t like the term source here. To me the source is either a playlist or station. I was thinking to try and add a custom service to select_receiver or select_speakers.
I haven’t heard of the app “qcast” but what you describe would be awesome!