Well, I installed home assistant with docker via the lscr.io/linuxserver/homeassistant image on my Raspberry Pi 5. Now my goal is an automation, that I wake up to a Spotify playlist playing on my Bluetooth speaker. I am looking for a simple as possible solution!
Bluetooth Speaker: In order to see the devices via the Bluetooth integration, I had to map the D-Bus socket (/run/dbus) and the Bluetooth adapter (/dev/hci0) into the Docker container. Done.
Spotify integration: Added the integration via HA „Settings > add Integration“ using the redirect URI Link to OAuth2 Authorize Callback – My Home Assistant. Worked.
ISSUE: Other than in many tutorials, I do not have a play button, when clicking on the Spotify integration. When trying to setup my automation, I selected Spotify as media player. I could select playlist, however, not any devices. I cannot even play an audio file and I feel that should be super easy.
My guess is that I need some kind of a media player, because I run Home Assistant in a Docker container (which is necessary in my case) and therefore it can not automatically use the Raspberry - if that makes sense …
ChatGPT recommended adding PulseAudio, which I did. It ran successfully in my container. However, home assistant could not configure the media player with platform „pulseaudio“. I tried Media Player Deamon as well, added it in the „configuration.yaml“, but it was unavailable in HA.
That was my last docker-compose.yml:
version: '2'
services:
homeassistant:
image: lscr.io/linuxserver/homeassistant:latest
container_name: homeassistant
environment:
- PUID=1000
- PGID=1000
- TZ=Europe/Vienna
volumes:
- /root/homeassistant/config:/config
- /run/dbus:/run/dbus # Expose D-Bus socket
ports:
- 8123:8123 #optional
restart: unless-stopped
devices:
- /dev/hci0:/dev/hci0 # Bluetooth device
privileged: true # This is necessary to allow access to the Bluetooth device
mpd:
#image: tobi312/rpi-mpd:debian
image: tobi312/rpi-mpd:alpine
container_name: mpd
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- 6600:6600 # MPD Client
- 8000:8000 # Stream
volumes:
- ./mpd/Music:/var/lib/mpd/music:rw
- ./mpd/playlists:/var/lib/mpd/playlists:rw
- ./mpd/data:/var/lib/mpd/data:rw
#- ./mpd/mpd.conf:/etc/mpd.conf:rw