Home Assistant Community Add-on: Spotify Connect

Logs please :slight_smile:

nevermind @ASNNetworks - found the issue and a fix is already pushed to github. You can re-download, or apply this one-liner yourself https://github.com/giannello/addon-spotify-connect-librespot/commit/eb2c5bf150199c7f87bea622896bfa11233affbc - or you might want to wait a few more hours so I can push a pre-built image and spare you some building time

Thanks! I will re-download/rebuild and try again :slight_smile:

Edit: @giannello it works, great! One thing though: audio over HDMI doesn’t seem to work. I only have one audio out device in the men (IEC958) which does not send audio through HDMI but analog. This is the same with the official Spotify Connect add-on (I tested that on a different RPI4, other instance at a relative). I have it hooked up on my TV with a mini HDMI > HDMI cable. I suppose the HDMI out simply doesn’t work with hassio.

I don’t use HDMI/Jack output, as I have an USB DAC, but tried to reproduce your issue, and it’s definitely there.
This seems to be within hassio itself - my spotify add-on (and the “official” one too AFAIK) has no knowledge about audio output devices, and uses whatever the system exposes.
Keep in mind that the purpose of my add-on is not to enable HDMI audio output, but to have additional features that are currently not available in the official add-on. This problem should be reported…somewhere else, I guess, but I can’t really tell you where.

Thank you for testing and explaining it to me. HDMI would have been a nice thing, but no that wasn’t the reason I installed your version. The features you added was the reason :slight_smile:

Care to link the usb dac you have? Or other recommendations?

That’s great to hear. Please keep me posted, if there’s demand, I will try to make it into the official repositories.

I personally use a Topping VX1 - USB DAC with 2x35W Class D + headphone amp. It’s quite an old model for today’s standards, there might be better options out there. I use it to drive a pair of Cambridge Audio bookshelf speakers, and I’m very satisfied about the outcome :slight_smile:

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Is it possible to pipe the audio from this addon to a snapcast server?

Btw, wanted to give you an update about HDMI audio out of the RPI4. This does work out of HA running RPI4, but it’s not properly documented (at least, I couldn’t find anything about this). I don’t use Spotify Connect anymore since I switched to Logitech Media Server. I got it working by accident by plugging in a HDMI cable and then booting the RPI4. Then it will use HDMI (you even have video on screen with logs) instead of analog out. I just tried this out with your add-on too and works as well.

So this is great for people who have a AV receiver or soundbar and can hookup RPI through HDMI. Protip: comment out the HDMI boost setting in boot.txt (on boot drive). This will give HDMI a boost which will solve crackling noices (which I had). Works great now, crystal clear sound over HDMI straight from RPI4.

Thanks for the feedback.

In the config.yaml i have to type something?I install the add on and doens’t work.

Logs please :slight_smile:

What i have to type?i can’t find the config

Hi everyone,
does the addon also work with a Spotify Free Account?

Will this develop as a seperate plug-in? Or will the settings like volume etc be configurable also later on, in the original add-on?

Love the volume setting

@Kabala no. Premium is required.

@BlackTurtle123 the two add-ons are independent from each other, while providing the same functionality. The official one uses spotifyd while mine uses librespot.
Whether my changes will be merged into the official one (which will make for an easy transition), or it will be a separate, unofficial add-on, it’s up to @frenck - I’m willing to take over as a maintainer if I get access to the repository and the build system :slight_smile:

@Danny9029 sorry but I can’t provide you with support if I don’t have the right info.

The ‘official one’ has bit less functionality, in sense from volume etc

Yes, but IMHO makes more sense to add the missing functionalities to the official one, than to tell everybody to use my custom version :slight_smile:

I run Home Assistant in virtualbox. Have Spotify Connect add-on installed.
But i can’t configure audio output.


Does anybody know how to configure the output?