Pleae bear with me, I seem to be missing the basics of what is possible. Please help me connect the missing dots.
Step 01:
I have installed the spotify connect add-on and have selected a USB connected DAC as the output.
I can now open the spotify app on my phone, select the HA instance as target and play music. It all works.
Step 02:
I installed the spotify integration, added a media player card to my dashboard and can now see what is playing, I can control the player by adjusting the colume, selecting another output source, pause and play the music. Works perfectly.
Step 03:
I can go to my HA dashboard, select “media” in the menu on the left side, select the spotify media player and browse spotify media, i.e. play playlists. Perfect.
Problems:
- If I stop playback, after a while the spotify media player becomes idle and after that moment, my HA instance seems to be unable to do anythign with it.
- when going to media, I cannot select the spotify media player anymore and cannot browse through spotify media
- I cannot start playing anything via spotify from HA itself, I always need to start playing music from my phone or spotify.com directly and target my HA instance before being able to control playback from within HA
- Even if I switch the output back to my phone, the developer tools still show this media_player.spotify_01 as I named it as playing, which kinda makes sense as its playing on my phone but I still don’t fully grasp the concept. i.e. how can I create an automation in HA which starts palying a song or playlist from spotify via the HA spotify add-on at a particular time as an alarm if I can’t change the media player from idle to on or playing?