Hmmm. Your log seems to suggest that pychromecast cant connect yo any of the devices. Pychromecast yses zeroconf which relies on mDNS (the .local host names) so I would say your HA instance has some issues at the time of the log.
Can you send a log of what spotcast logs in debug mode during the failure?
Hello. I’m getting the following error. Any ideas?
2020-09-01 22:47:09 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.homeassistant] Component error: spotcast - No module named ‘pychromecast’
I tried installing pychromecast via pip but that didn’t seem to help any.
How have you installed HA?
I am running Home Assistant version 0.111.4. That’s where the log above came from. I installed spotcast using HACS.
I installed HA via pip like in these instructions: Installing Home Assistant on Raspberry pi with touchscreen kiosk mode
That seems like an unusual question so perhaps I don’t understand what’s you are asking.
Reason for the question iw that HA automatically installls pychromecast without spotcast so i assumed you had an unusual setup.
Normal cast wont work for u either without pychromecast so my suggestion is to head over to ask for help from the HA community discord channel
In case someone else has a similar issue, I solved it by copying pychromecast, google and casttube from /home/pi/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/ to /srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.7/site-packages/ and changing owner to homeassistant user. I probably could have made this a symbolic link so that PIP will update accordingly.
Likely the result of the installation method… making a virtual package into a native raspberry install causing two python installations. I’ll fix this some other time.
Installing Home Assistant on Raspberry pi with touchscreen kiosk mode
Hi, can you explain how I can view this in debug mode?
It happens again now (after 4 days). Same behaviour as before, same log, same speaker group that doesn’t work (while others do work that are listed in the log).
Also: as soon as I restarted HA server, that speaker group started to play. Could there somehow be a hang in my network or HA holding a service call and release it after restart? Very strange this part.
Just to clarify: I noticed the speaker group not playing. Then did nothing for around 8 hours. Then tried again, still didn’t play (hoped it fixed itself). Then I restarted HA and immediately the service call of just a minute ago started when HA server went offline.
Hi all - I have Spotcast installed and I’m trying to get it working. I’m having a problem when I add random_song: true to my script. It gives an error saying ‘Total’. Any ideas?
My Code:
aa_play_song:
alias: 'aaa Play a Spotify track on Chromecast'
sequence:
- service: spotcast.start
data:
random_song: true
shuffle: true
device_name: 'Kitchen max'
uri: 'spotify:playlist:37i9dQZF1DX5hHfOi73rY3?si=RHL7DWhXS1G9L8e-olfnoQ'
And the error log:
Log Details (ERROR)
Logger: homeassistant.components.websocket_api.http.connection.140464490510464
Source: custom_components/spotcast/__init__.py:247
Integration: Home Assistant WebSocket API (documentation, issues)
First occurred: 11:51:10 (1 occurrences)
Last logged: 11:51:10
'total'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/websocket_api/commands.py", line 125, in handle_call_service
await hass.services.async_call(
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/core.py", line 1308, in async_call
task.result()
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/core.py", line 1347, in _execute_service
await self._hass.async_add_executor_job(handler.func, service_call)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 57, in run
result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File "/config/custom_components/spotcast/__init__.py", line 313, in start_casting
play(client, spotify_device_id, uri, random_song, repeat, shuffle, position)
File "/config/custom_components/spotcast/__init__.py", line 247, in play
position = random.randint(0, results["total"] - 1)
KeyError: 'total'
Just installed Spotcast on my Pi4. Brilliant. Exactly what I was looking for. =)
Using it in my flows in node red.
does it work with another playlist?
I’ve started having issues with Spotcast and my tokens expiring within hours of updating them, i have tried both in incognito mode and normally and they seem to only last a few hours
2020-09-11 02:13:46 ERROR (SyncWorker_35) [spotipy.client] HTTP Error for GET to https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/devices returned 401 due to The access token expired
I tried it with a couple of different ones. I’ll have another play as soon as I get a chance over the next couple of days.
If you did not figure that out, the logger config needs to look like this to work for spotcast.
logger:
default: info
logs:
custom_components.spotcast: debug
Did you follow the steps in the readme exactly?
I did, yes
Somehow the addon stopped working yesterday… Tried a lot but cant find anything. Getting the message:
Failed to call service spotcast/start. empty range for randrange() (0, 0, 0)
2020-09-14 13:27:54 DEBUG (SyncWorker_50) [custom_components.spotcast] websocket_handle_devices msg: {'type': 'spotcast/devices', 'id': 84}
2020-09-14 13:27:54 DEBUG (SyncWorker_50) [custom_components.spotcast] setting up with account default
2020-09-14 13:27:54 DEBUG (SyncWorker_50) [custom_components.spotcast] expires: 1600086471 time: 1600082874.2053912
2020-09-14 13:27:51 DEBUG (SyncWorker_23) [custom_components.spotcast] setting up with account default
2020-09-14 13:27:51 DEBUG (SyncWorker_23) [custom_components.spotcast] Version: 3.4.2, playing URI: spotify:playlist:2WoOqqMVjSL0nLBHeVPpgF on device-id: 16a3f3ad93f100cfca20555072d10cee182e22a6
2020-09-14 13:27:51 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.websocket_api.http.connection.2774958192] empty range for randrange() (0, 0, 0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/websocket_api/commands.py", line 125, in handle_call_service
await hass.services.async_call(
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/core.py", line 1308, in async_call
task.result()
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/core.py", line 1347, in _execute_service
await self._hass.async_add_executor_job(handler.func, service_call)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 57, in run
result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File "/config/custom_components/spotcast/__init__.py", line 313, in start_casting
play(client, spotify_device_id, uri, random_song, repeat, shuffle, position)
File "/config/custom_components/spotcast/__init__.py", line 247, in play
position = random.randint(0, results["total"] - 1)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/random.py", line 248, in randint
return self.randrange(a, b+1)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/random.py", line 226, in randrange
raise ValueError("empty range for randrange() (%d, %d, %d)" % (istart, istop, width))
ValueError: empty range for randrange() (0, 0, 0)
Try remove random song
Just a FYI - I managed to solve this as I was using the wrong code for the playlists. rather than clicking on share on a playlist and copying the while string from that, I just now copy the long code part of the URL on the spotify web player.
Setting a default device name helped. Remove random song just caused another error.
Anyone know how I would convert this script to run from nodered?
spotify_disco:
alias: 'Spotify Disco'
sequence:
- service: spotcast.start
data:
random_song: true
shuffle: true
device_name: 'Kitchen max'
uri: 'spotify:playlist:37i9dQZF1DX4kJGZhtnOIh'