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'
Hi an am new to HA but loving so far.
the main reason for me was to automate music playing on various home device events and to create a follow music solution
in brief i am trying to automate when i enter a room a xiaomi motion sensor event will trigger a media music event either on Google home assitant or Amazon echo depending on the room. I have various of these around the house.
I have tred to get Spotcast installed and did so via HACS and code seems to install ok.
I then added
‘spotcast:
sp_dc: !secret key
sp_key: !secret key’
as per instructions
when i reboot HA i just get a config file error all the time
2020-09-17 16:05:29 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.bootstrap] Failed to parse configuration.yaml: Secret key
can someone please help me understand am i doing something wrong here ?
I have spotify add-on installed and is working fine
thx
It’s right here. Make sure you use the exact variabel as the one in secrets.yaml. You should paste your code using the format button above. So we see the correct formatting.
Like this:
spotcast:
sp_dc: !secret spotcast_dc
sp_key: !secret spotcast_key
Otherwise we’re all just guessing and wasting time 
And please tell me you actually have the sp_key and sp_dc inside your secrets.yaml and you’re not just copy/pasting the configuration.
If not, you need to read this so you understand what to do with that: Storing secrets - Home Assistant
Or just paste the sp_dc and sp_key directly in configuration.yaml but that’s not advisable.