Does Spotcast 5 no longer have an option to resume playback where it stopped last time? With the previous version you could use spotcast.start without providing what to play and it would resume playback from the previous session. Is there an alternative for this in Spotcast 5?
Hi @TheFes, no its still possible, its under the spotcast.transfer_playback service now. It can even rebuild most of the context based playback even when Spotify stop providing them, which was not possible under the V4 version.
In the case of a contextless playback, it defaults currently to liked songs, but I am working on an option setting to provide a custom spotcast uri to customize the process.
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Thanks, that indeed works great.
I’m trying to add a second account now, but after entering the sp_dc and sp_key i get
public_private_accounts_mismatch
You are probably adding the second account from a browser already logged in the first one. Make sure to open a private browser session to force a connection to Spotify and not use the currently active user.
The error you are receiving means the public (oauth based credentials) and private (cookie based) are from 2 different account, because of this, spotcast won’t proceed.
Error message are cryptic right now, I haven’t gone through simplifying them for the user yet. I planned that part for January.
Edit: typos
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That worked, thanks a lot!
Hello there,
I was using V4.
Now I decided to uninstall Spotcast v4. I don’t have credentials on the application credentials tab and removed the ones from the secret.yaml file as well.
And I restarted HA.
Will try to reinstall SpotCast v4. Once installed from HACS, shoudl you do the integration in the UI? Or jsut the integration ont he configuration.yaml file like the github mentions?
THnaks!
Hi @mmarques,
currently V4 is only configurable from configuration.yaml. The UI setup is part of the V5 beta. The beta is technically ready for production release, the only part missing is Spotify Card. I’m waiting on its developer to create a compatible version with the V5.
If you prefer to wait for the official release, you can still install Spotcast V4, the integration will be imported to configuration entry on your first reboot. Otherwise, if you want to try it, you can directly install it in HACS using the install a different version option. The builds for V5 are marked with a pre-release flag.