Spotcast - custom component to start playback on an idle chromecast device

[darknebula (Adam)]

Is it possible to use this component to play a random spotify playlist similiar to this

[edit] works fantastically

Play a random Spotify playlist on Squeezebox

This can be adapted to various media_player’s I’m sure. I’m running Logitech Media Server with the official Spotify Plugin plus the Triode protocol handler. That allows me to use Spotify URIs. The secret sauce is that Jinja templates can return a random item from an array. I got excited when I figured that out. The script I’m posting also makes an API call to turn on shuffle-by-song so that the playlists are shuffled. Source for that below as well. Keep in mind that you’ll need to change the …