WTH Why can't I use my Smart (older google voice assistant) or Bluetooth Speaker with HA?

The Casting integration seems not fit for this, it can see the device, but it can’t do anything with it.

And… I can’t even use it as a Bluetooth speaker either, since that is not even detected, I even thought let me try my Bluetooth receiver to 3.5 as an input to the smart speaker, but this is also not detected, so…this and the ‘smart’ speaker is really lacking…

What smart speaker are you talking about?
I will have to find it, but I believe a project supported doing Bluetooth speakers and snapcast.

Thanks for your reply!

It’s a KYGO B9 800

It has an aux
it has Bluetooth
and casting:

Google Cast version number:
1.32.129357

The log says stuff like this

2024-12-11 11:15:11.958 INFO (Thread-6) [pychromecast.socket_client] [kygo(192.168.0.142):8009] Connection reestablished!

But also this:

Logger: pychromecast.dial
Source: components/cast/helpers.py:68
First occurred: 11:51:25 AM (1 occurrences)
Last logged: 11:51:25 AM

Failed to determine cast type for host (<urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused>) (services:{MDNSServiceInfo(name=‘KYGO-B9-800-6fd78243a7575ecaf10ca01b234f6f36._googlecast._tcp.local.’)})