Wth can I not use Spotify to play on my Spotify connect speakers from ha

benganellison · October 16, 2022, 10:28am

This is related to both automations and gui

Why the heck can I in home assistant not find/use all, in the network, available Spotify connect speakers/groups.
I can group/ungroup speakers in Heos. But not use them in home assistant unless I first open my Spotify app and play a song on the speaker/group I want to use.

This seems to be related to that we have 4 Spotify account that we use in the household and currently Spotify integration only seems to know the speakers lasts connected to the Spotify account used in ha.

It feels like the media experience is not well architectured

michaelkrtikos · October 17, 2022, 6:34am

I vote for this one. What I would like to have, is the ability to choose either in the ui via a dropdown or in automations the available speakers so I can choose from. Another great addition would be a " Stream to all speakers" option.

benganellison · October 17, 2022, 10:19am

Yes, and yesterday i found another related thing.

Tried to use the tag feature to play an album, but i can not choose the room to play in. And even if I could the room I want to use probably is not accessible