Hi guys - I’m hopeful someone here could guide me on how to stream my Spotify audio (via HA) through my Google Nest speakers. For some background, I have a series of Nest speakers integrated to HA.
And, I have integrated Spotify in HA, and see my music when initiated from Spotify, however I don’t see any of the Nest speakers as a possible source for Spotify audio.
What might be the best way to approach this? I might not be providing enough information at this stage… 
I use the HACS spotcast custom integration for this.
Thanks for the tip @michaelblight! I set up spotcast, but I can’t get Spotcast to reliably find my Google Nest speakers:
Here is the service configuration I have:
Any idea why the service can’t find the speakers?
I suspect it might have something to do with this?
Does the friendly name in HA match the name in the Google app? I think they have to. If I change the friendly name of one of mine, then I get the same error you’re getting.
Yea the friendly name definitely matches…
Not sure what else might be impacting this…
The only other thought I have is hve you successfully sent music to it from the Spotify app? I think I read somewhere that helps.
It’s really odd, I have music casting to the speaker from Spotify:
That media even shows up on Kitchen Large Speaker on Spotcast:
But when I call the service it tells me it can’t find the speaker.
Any ideas on what else I could troubleshoot?
Actually, I was wrong — event using Device ID I am not able to reliably cast Spotify to a Google Nest speaker. I can only do so if I had just previously played music (via Spotify app) on that speaker.
Curious if anyone has managed to reliably get Spotify or SpotCast to a Google Nest speaker?
Were you ever able to resolve this? I am having the same exact issue that you are having, even trying to send commands with spotcast and having no luck. I figure its an issue with the Spotify API in some way.
I was not able to solve it unfortunately.
@albertoh @DanishFish
In case you are still monitoring this thread …
My SpotifyPlus integration might be able to help with re-activating the Spotify Connect device (SpotCast not required).
I put together a quick How To document on the SpotifyPlus Wiki documentation page with details and service call examples of how to do this. I have had good luck with Onkyo, Bose, PureSound, and Yamaha users that have been able to re-establish a Spotify Connect device with it.
Give it a try and let me know if you have questions or issues.
Thank you! Checking it out.
@albertoh @DanishFish @michaelblight
Just wanted to post an update regarding SpotifyPlus and Google Nest Chromecast support.
The latest v1.0.86 version fully supports Google Nest Chromecast integration, including awakening the device if need be (Spotcast not required). Note that prior versions of the integration only supported Chromecast devices when they were in the Spotify Connect device list (e.g. could not awaken them). It should be able to support any Chromecast device that is of type cast_audio, though I have only tested it with my Google Nest device.
Take a look at the SpotifyPlus Google Chromecast Device Support wiki page on how to configure the integration for Chromecast support.
Hope it helps!
