It works also with Spotify as long as you are or have played something to a speaker recently.
After some time it seems that the possible sources are not visible anymore.
I don’t know how to find out about the alias numbers.
@chimpy Don’t buy a chromecast if you want to use it with HA and the Spotify Component.
I must stress that this is not having to do with Chromecast being bad on the Spotify App, they are great. This is however an issue with the HA Spotify component forgetting (especialy) chromecasts rather quick (even when they are clearly visible in the Spotify App.
@Peleke It some time since I did this, and due to the above mentions issues I dont use it myself, but take a look at this, it should work (if your chromecast is remembered by the component) Spotify Playlist Player
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Thanks, I think the problem for me is about the bad memory of chromecast players…
Guessing there’s still no way around this? I’ve managed to get it working on my Google Home but only when I am already playing spotify to the device.
Asking Google Home to play a Spotify playlist on a Chromecast Audio works consistently for me, whether or not I’ve recently been playing on that particular Chromecast audio device (I have several).
But yeah, doesn’t work for me via Home Assistant’s Spotify component, even if I hardcode player names.
I wonder if the recently-announced Hass.io cloud functionality would allow for first-class Spotify player status finally? (My understanding it that Hassio’s limited ability to cast Spotify to Chromecasts is because it’s not really a player in its own right, so much as it controls existing players like your phone or computer. Or at least if it is a standalone player, it can’t see its own list of chromecast devices, only those discovered recently by your phone)
I figured out a way to accomplish casting Spotify Playlists to Chromecast Audio’s through Home Assistant. I use a writeup on Mopidy and Icecast2, can be found here: https://www.vittoriomonaco.de/home-automation-part-7.html and a Spotify Playlist Player frontend here: Spotify Playlist Player
You can use my adaptation here:
https://github.com/robwolff3/homeassistant-config/blob/master/packages/audiocontrol.yaml
From my testing so far it works pretty well.
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Mopidy, Iris, and Icecast look like an awesome combination. I’m gonna try this out and add Mopidy UI as a side panel to Home Assistant.
can you share this code? Thanks
how do you play from mopidy/icecast to chromecast in the panel_iframe?
Sorry, didn’t get that far with my implementation so I can’t tell you how to do it. What I would do is add the Mopidy web interface as an iFrame in Home Assistant, browse through Mopidy and select a song to play, then send the Icecast stream (which is a streaming mp3) currently playing to a Chromecast.
I am not sure how to do this part
I think I was able to find what triggers that.
I have a following script. It runs fine (in the configuration.yaml I have also defined the spotify media player including alias for the livingroom chromecast device)
spotify_test:
alias: This Plays Spotify on Chromecast just fine
sequence:
- service: media_player.select_source
data_template:
entity_id: media_player.spotify
source: livingroom
- service: media_player.play_media
data_template:
entity_id: media_player.spotify
media_content_type: playlist
media_content_id: spotify:user:spotify:playlist:37i9dQZEVXcCFM9pYlRMzr
My real script has some templates, but I kept on this one just the bare minimum to make it work.
Now, I also use the chromecast devices to play internet radio. Again, this is the test script
spotify_ruin:
alias: After I run tris script, previous script will stop working
sequence:
- service: media_player.play_media
data_template:
entity_id: media_player.living_room
media_content_id: http://cdn.nrjaudio.fm/audio1/fr/30001/mp3_128.mp3?origine=fluxradios
media_content_type: 'audio/mp4'
Now, when I run this script, it plays the internet radio fine as well. I stop it, but after that, the first script fails on calling the media_player.select_source service. I have tried all kind of things, from media_stop, turn_on, turn_off (the media_player.living_room), nothing helps.
Only after I go to spotify on my phone and select the living room from devices, then the script starts working again.
But it is not that the media_player.select_source service does not work, it does. After I have triggered teh livingroom device, I can then switch back to listening on the phone or different device. When I call the script, it will correctly swap to the living room. But each time I call media_player.play_media directly to the media_player.living_room, after that, the media_player.select_source (on media_player.spotify) fails with the following error:
Error executing service <ServiceCall media_player.select_source: entity_id=['media_player.spotify'], source=livingroom>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/homeassistant/core.py", line 1010, in _event_to_service_call
yield from service_handler.func(service_call)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/homeassistant/components/media_player/__init__.py", line 403, in async_service_handler
yield from getattr(player, method['method'])(**params)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/asyncio/futures.py", line 332, in __iter__
yield self # This tells Task to wait for completion.
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/asyncio/tasks.py", line 250, in _wakeup
future.result()
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/asyncio/futures.py", line 245, in result
raise self._exception
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 56, in run
result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/homeassistant/components/media_player/spotify.py", line 241, in select_source
self._player.transfer_playback(self._devices[source],
KeyError: 'livingroom'
Any idea?
Hi,
I have exactly the same problem?
I can easyily enough turn on your internet radio link.
Hwever i cannot turn on spotify playlists?
I basically have no knowledge about programming, so i do not know where or how to locate the problem. But i guess its something between the spotify and chromecast as you suggest??
I have the same problem. From what I have been able to figure out, selecting the chromecast as a source for spotify only works if the chromecast is currently playing spotify or has recently played it. After a while the connection between spotify and chromecast times out. It sounds like by running the internet radio script, it is cutting off the chromecasts connection with spotify. Spotify will not recognize the chromecast again until you open the app and connect to the chromecast.
I have not been able to find a workaround for this issue yet.
It works when I do that either from Spotify or from Google Assistant. I was thinking that if I can find a way to trigger an action by REST API in one of the services. Does not have to be complicated, once Spotify switches to the Chromecast devices, I can manage it from Home Assistant.
I have tried in Spotify API, but could not make that work.
And I did not find a way how to make Home Assistant to ask Google Assistant to do that.
Maybe someone here more experienced?
should be a way. WIth spotify connect it works well, with chromecast it does not
Aww just found out this does not work, so sad!
Anyone found a clever solution yet?
Same issue as other users.
I tried your script, but i always get this error:
Error executing service <ServiceCall media_player.select_source: entity_id=[‘media_player.spotify’], source=media_player.salotto_audio>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant/core.py”, line 1002, in _event_to_service_call
await service_handler.func(service_call)
File “/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant/components/media_player/init.py”, line 403, in async_service_handler
yield from getattr(player, method[‘method’])(**params)
File “/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/futures.py”, line 380, in iter
yield self # This tells Task to wait for completion.
File “/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/tasks.py”, line 304, in _wakeup
future.result()
File “/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/futures.py”, line 293, in result
raise self._exception
File “/usr/lib/python3.5/concurrent/futures/thread.py”, line 55, in run
result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File “/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant/components/media_player/spotify.py”, line 241, in select_source
self._player.transfer_playback(self._devices[source],
KeyError: ‘media_player.salotto_audio’
How to solve?