Squeezebox Intregration Complete controls with multiple squeezeboxs and LMS

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I’ve been searching for a few weeks on how to fully intregrate LMS and my squeezeboxs in HA. I"ve had the squeezebox intregration setup and working, playing my alarm siren if my alarm was triggered, but what i really wanted was “Spotty” (spotify in LMS) access to play certain playlists, songs, albums with automations.

Searching the web and this site, i didn’t really find much. Until i found a Github that was sourced from the slimdevices fourm for the LMS server. In it it gave all the CLI commands that can be pushed to the server to get songs, sync players and do whatever else you need.

I’m a long time lurker, first time poster and figured i would share my Node-Red flow with all the basic controls for both my players in the house.

i’ve spent about a week getting it all working and figured out, with minor issues, this is just about everything i would want to do.

Local play is done directly through the material skin in LMS as a iframe card, which is the best, so i was mainly concerned on how to make songs play though automations, and this is what i came up with…

Start of Node Red Flow…

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Just in case anyone finds this – if youd like to play a Spotify track through Spotty on a Squeezebox player, all you need to do is to go to the Spotify web player, find the album/playlist you want to play, copy the URL and put it in as a parameter for your squeezebox service command, e.g.

    - service: squeezebox.call_method
      data:
        entity_id: media_player.squeeze_lounge
        command: playlist
        parameters:
          - play
          - "https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2xxam29MsK4CIF6VqXQjWd"
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Even better, if you want to access the entire Favorites List, just add an iFrame-Card to your dashboard and have it calling the favorites list of LMS like
http://YourLMSserverIp:9000/plugins/Favorites/index.html
Does not look very nice, but it works. When you click on a favorites icon, the play button appears on the right hand side and you can select the entry you want.
For sure, you would need all Spotify (and other) playlists you want to access to the favorites list on LMS first. But works with local music on my LMS, internet radio, Spotify or Digitally Imported for me.