Spotify Connect - Select Source with Google Assistant on Philips TV

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Hello, i want to use Google Mini to play Music from Spotify on a media palyer ( Philips TV - APIv6 )

  • Spotify [Connect] installed on Andrid Phone, Philips TV and Spotify Integration in HASS
  • I can use my phone and/or HASS to select Spotify Playlist and Source ( Phone and TV )
  • Spotify on phone allows to use either ChromeCast or Spotify Connect to play on Source TV

Now Google Home/Assitant comes into play.

  • i use Nebucaza Cloud and exposed my Spotify Entity, ChromeCast and Philips TV to google
  • google tells me it can’t play of any of these devices

When i check Spotify on any of the devices ( phone, HASS, TV )

  • i can see that the all interact or at least read the information from Spotify on whats currentl being player and where

When i have the Spotify App on the phone running and have Philips as Source but then tell google (via Phone) to play “jazz”
the source automatically changes from Philips TV to local phone

Where is the missing link between Google Home and HASS and/or Spotify Connect to choose the sources?

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The missing link is that Google uses Chromecast and not Spotify Connect. You can only play Spotify on speakers you added to Google Home. Home Assistant does support Spotify Connect, but Google Home doesn’t. You could create scripts that start a playlist on a Spotify Connect device through Home Assistant and then start them with Google Home. But it’s not possible out of the box to use voice commands like: play X song on Philips TV. There are ways with DialogeFlow, but I have no experience myself.

I wouldn’t invest the time in that myself and would just just get a GoogleTV stick connected to a receiver/TV and use that with Google Home. And you can install this custom component to start Spotify songs/playlists from Home Assistant → Chromecast: GitHub - fondberg/spotcast: Home assistant custom component to start Spotify playback on an idle chromecast device as well as control spotify connect devices

Having said this: I don’t use Chromecast and Spotify Connect myself anymore. Got fed up with multiroom speakers and random issues with them (both from Google Home and HASS). I use Logitech Media Server now for all my music purposes, including multiroom speakers.

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One more questions. Google Home does Support Chromescast so does the Spotify App.
Is there anyway to make use of Chrome Cast to bypass the limitation for Spoitfy Connect on Google ?

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So it seems to work in a fairly simple straight forward way.

1.) Switch on the TV using ChromeCast ( TV needs to be configured PowerOn on Cast )
2.) Use the Spotify Connect AddOn chose source

The TV will automatically start the Spotify Connect App.

I’ll see if i can put this into an Automation and at least get certain playlist to play automatically incl. multiroom ( grouping google audio with the TV as a media player)