Google Music in HA -- Now as a media player!

[troy]

@christophe.vandingel

@christophe.vandingel

I am a subscriber, and I can play everything in the google music app

Does anything else work? Can you make a test playlist with songs only available through all-access ( nothing you uploaded ) Is this limited to music you have uploaded or everything?

@christophe.vandingel

I’m not in the US, but I think that shouldn’t make a difference, especially for playlists

I would almost 100% agree. Are you using a username name and password for gmusic_player ? Or have you configured the Oauth login - I never accounted for the local setting, so it’s always using the default en_US. I don’t really have any other guess to what may cause this trouble.

What is the ID for your local? See this list – I’ll make a modified version for you to test

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@sparkydave

@sparkydave

Currently I have no playlists of stations showing up in HA.

Do you have at least one playlist, that you created, saved in your Google Music Library? Currently, this does not support any auto generated playlist. An empty playlist will not work either. A playlists must contain at least one song or it will not be added to gmusic_player.

Same goes for the stations – You will only see stations you have added to your media library but you should at least see one station - “I’m Feeling Lucky”

[sparkydave (🇦🇺 Dave)]

I did another HA restart and it seems to have fixed the issue however how do you start the music playing? I have tried selecting stations or playlists and nothing starts…

[troy]

There’s a few ways. For basic control from the gui, after you select your station or playlist and speakers, you should just need to turn on gmusic_player

For automations or other ways to trigger you can use

@troy

script.gmusic_play_media

• Easier way to start play black. You can use this in automations
• This will also set the corresponding input_selects

Example using the new scripts to create shortcut buttons in mini-media player

entity: media_player.gmusic_player
type: 'custom:mini-media-player'
artwork: cover
source: icon
volume_stateless: true
shortcuts:
  columns: 3
  buttons:
    - name: Feeling Lucky
      id: script.gmusic_play_media
      type: script
      data:
        name: I'm Feeling Lucky
        source: station
        speakers: bedroom_stereo
    - name: Tool Playlist
      id: script.gmusic_play_media
      type: script
      data:
        name: Tool
        source: playlist
        speakers: bedroom_stereo
    - name: Shinedown Radio
      id: script.gmusic_play_media
      type: script
      data:
        name: Shinedown
        source: station
        speakers: bedroom_stereo
    - name: Sync Music
      icon: 'mdi:sync'
      id: script.gmusic_sync_media
      type: script

[sparkydave (🇦🇺 Dave)]

is it possible to just run the script ‘gmusic_play_media’ and have it use which ever items are already selected for speakers, source and name?

[troy]

@sparkydave

use which ever items are already selected for speakers, source and name

In this case you can just use media_player.turn_on

@sparkydave

just run the script ‘gmusic_play_media’ and have it use which ever items are already selected for speakers, source and name?

No Sorry - The purpose of this script is to set everything.

[christophe.vandingel (Christophe Vandingelen)]

Hi Troy

I also tested it with a self-made playlist that had only Google music on it, not uploaded by me, that also didn’t work. The code for Belgium is nl-BE. I have a username and an app password, cause I’m having 2-factor. Hope we can find what’s going on, cause I really like this plugin.

Regards
Christophe

Ps: I also read something about a url you can give it, so, you would be able to load another online playlist? (Thinking of YouTube music, since Google play music is about to go away in the future)?

[sparkydave (🇦🇺 Dave)]

I have installed the gmusic proxy to try and prevent songs not playing to the end but I dont have good linux skills to get the credentials setup. How to I start a bash session in the container?

[echopage (riccardo)]

Try portainer

[DavidFW1960 (David)]

Dave…
docker exec homeassistant /bin/bash
(I think) from ssh…

[sparkydave (🇦🇺 Dave)]

I’ve installed the Portainer add-on and can see the Image for gmusic proxy… no idea where to from there

[sparkydave (🇦🇺 Dave)]

No luck with that:

~ $ docker exec home assistant /bin/bash
-bash: docker: command not found

[DavidFW1960 (David)]

You need to do it via ssh to the host… it’s impossible that you don’t have a docker command.

Note no space in homeassistant- auto mangle…

Docker exec -it homeassistant /bin/bash

I was missing the -it… but it should not give the error you reported…

[echopage (riccardo)]

Running GMusicProxy on Hassio

I’m in the same situation. I can’t find where the addon has installed (also running Hassio). The addon reports it has correctly entered sleep mode for 3600 seconds, waiting for the config - but I can’t work out how/where to execute /GMusicProxy -o

solution at 3° post (mikkajo)

[troy]

@christophe.vandingel

I also read something about a url you can give it,

Are you referring to the gmusicproxy url? If your not using gmusicproxy, I recommend that you give that try first – It is possible that alone could fix your issue – You will likely need gmusicproxy anyways to prevent tracks from cutting off in the middle of a song

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If that does not work…

From my point, it is easier to add the local setting for the Oauth login – I still can not say if the local setting will even fix the url issue ( hopefully gmusicproxy will fix ) I switch to using Oauth login about year ago and it does work with 2-factor enabled. But now, I’m having a hard time switching my account back the username and password login I’m not going to be able to test the local setting with the username login unless I can figure out why it stopped working for me. Honestly instead of troubleshooting my own username login, I would rather help you get an Oauth login setup - If it is somehow possible

The difficulty switching to Oauth comes when trying to creating the Oauth Credentials file ( you only need to create this file once ) Creating the file itself if not terrible but I only know how to do it using the command line. If you are running Home Assistant Core in a virtualenv, I can help you create this file – But I can not help most people because I do not use the former named HassIO or any kind of docker setup. You would somehow need to get to the command line of the actual container that is running HA and I do not know how to help with that.

Another option, if you have a Linux computer, it is also possible to create a temporary virtualenv with gmusicapi installed and use that to create the Oauth Credentials file. That credentials files can then be copied to HA and used by gmusic_player.

[christophe.vandingel (Christophe Vandingelen)]

Another option, if you have a Linux computer

I have the ‘HassIO’ running in docker, on a Linux computer, so I have a Linux computer. I only hope I’m advanced enough to follow the instructions (I’m not that good, but keep that quite )

[Vaibhavkumar_Birajda]

I have setup gmusic component as per instructions
But it only showing on off
And few automations
I also added input sources to gmusic_config but my sources media player doesnt showing in sources , i have gmusic paid subscription
Whenever i start gmusic this msg popups (when click on turn on and off) its showing off by default)

Failed to call service homeassistant/turn_on. Unable to find service input_select/turn_on

Failed to call service homeassistant/turn_off. Unable to find service input_select/turn_off

Playlist and my radio not fetching, but my account configuration is correct.
Help me plz

[troy]

@Vaibhavkumar_Birajda

… But it only showing on off And few automations …

… I also added input sources to gmusic_config …

… Whenever i start gmusic this msg popups …

Failed to call service homeassistant/turn_on. Unable to find service input_select/turn_on
Failed to call service homeassistant/turn_off. Unable to find service input_select/turn_off

The is alot going wrong here – Please completely remove the gmusic_player, including removal of both package files – and then restart Home Assistant before you try again.

Please try again - Please get new downloads of both package file.

Set your speakers in gmusic_config.yaml

## Use this 'package.yaml' file to configure "gmusic_player"
media_player:
  - platform: gmusic_player
    device_id: !secret gmusic_device_id
    username: !secret gmusic_username
    password: !secret gmusic_password
      
    ## Add your media_players below
    speakers: # Example media_players
      - bedroom_stereo
      - workshop_stereo
      
    ## Optional: enable streaming from gmusicproxy (Workaround for issue #6)
    ## https://github.com/tprelog/homeassistant-gmusic_player/issues/6
    #gmusicproxy: !secret gmusic_proxy

Do not edit - gmusic_player.yaml

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After new packages files are placed

• Reinstall gmusic_player
• Restart HA

[troy]

HA 0.107 changes everything! - more on that in a later post

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Just to recap - I have mentioned this a few places before

@troy

It wasn’t that difficult to fix the breaking changes changes when the original gmusic switch stopped working. Changing to a media player and adding the stations was also relatively simple (considering I’m not a programmer) to figure out with some trial and error.

You see I am not a programmer. Honestly my only initial intention was just trying to keep the original gmusic switch working. I never thought I would even get this far. So bottom line is, getting gmusic to work in HA is my first attempt at any Object Oriented Programming, learning Python general, and creating a custom component for HA. I’m also not the smartest, so learning all these things from the internet is a slow for me.

I do want to keep working and moving forward with this, I just can’t do it as quick as I would like

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With most of the world on pause right now, I have some free time to revisit learning python.

I still have more questions than answers but I’m happy to report I’m making some progress.

Click HERE to see spoiler

[troy]

@echopage

2019-10-31 17:42:47 ERROR (SyncWorker_9) [custom_components.gmusic_player.media_player] Failed to get URL for track: (36b2a8ac-8bd3-3894-ac9a-8c0ece109748)

@christophe.vandingel

Hi troy, I’m giving it a try too and have the same problem as @dasbooter, I get the error that it failed to get the URL for the track, but I get it with a playlist. All my music is my own and uploaded, I am a subscriber, and I can play everything in the google music app. I’m not in the US, but I think that shouldn’t make a difference, especially for playlists.

With the patience and help of @christophe.vandingel - I have finally been able to track this down. It seems to be an issue, when the track id contains a hyphen ( - ) it needs to be in quotes

• "36b2a8ac-8bd3-3894-ac9a-8c0ece109748"

If your having this issue you can update to the latest master version using HACS to see if it helps
( Hint: Select master from the drop down menu )

[troy]

@sparkydave

is it possible to just run the script ‘gmusic_play_media’ and have it use which ever items are already selected for speakers, source and name?

Completely forgot… media_player.media_play will do what you want

• It will turn on and start playing using whatever selections are currently made
• entity_id: media_player.gmusic_player