And it's getting better each day. I've downloaded your code. Took me some cut&paste time, but now my speakers and the mini media player are smarter than ever, thanks again for your work. At the end the script wasn't that difficult, but I had trouble combine it all together in one yaml code. Missed the raw configuration method and was trying to put it all together in the card code...
Your videos are very helpful for this media player! I am howver trying to use these methods of calling spotcast service to play on a group of home mini speakers, but service does not call. Any suggestions for this? Is there a way to play on all speakers with this method?
Thx for the great tutorial! Keep up the good work. Just a quick tip... In the code editor you can press ctrl+f to replace multiple lines of code at once instead of manually adjusting all your entities one by one.
Great Video. In case you only want to use one card for managing all the media players, you could use the state-switch card from Thomas Loven in HACS too. But this works as well and only uses native components.
Thank you for another great video. Tip: if you place the media-cards and conditional card in a vertical stack you make sure the speaker-selector and media card are always together.
Excellent tutorial! I've been looking for a way to consolidate the lights as well as my multiple smart speakers in the house for a clean mobile dashboard - used this "trickery" with a mushroom chips card for both and works perfectly! Coupled with your tutorial on the kiosk mode... very clean. Thanks so much!
You are adamant to improving my dashboard😁, Very nice idea, i thing i will use this in so many different way especially i have 6 smart Speakers Thanks very useful Ed.
Thanks also for this super explanitory tutorial. I will surely use it in my dashboard. I look forward to more of your tutorial...it wolud be great with Audio Multiroom Arylic 😉
Amazing videos and tutorial! :D Is there a way to get a dropdown to somehow choose wich spotify account is playing? If you use the multiple account option in spotcast? :) Thanks in advance!
Excellent video, do you know any way to send music to a generic bluetooth speaker? I did several tests, with bluetooth dongles, esp32 and I can't find how to do it, greetings from Argentina
Thank you Lewis! for the information, Great video! well done i have some media issues and CCTV that i don't know they don't work for me is it possible to get you to have look at for me please much appreciated
Hi Ed, i just want to thank you for your amazing work and very good documented vidz. I really love your chanel! I 've also bought the downloadable files and implemented them in my own dashboard and adapted it to my wishes. Still, i have a question. Do you know what could be the reason why i can play spotify playlist on my google nest, but when trying to play to my google mini, i keep getting error: kan service spotcast/start niet aanroepen: could not find device with name XXX. I"ve tried it with friendly name, and also did it with entity_id but keep getting this error... so when in dropdown menu i choose the google nest, everything works fine, and when choosing google mini in dropdown, i keep getting this errors.. while radio stations still keep working on all devices and speaker groups.
Hey Kevin, thank you for your support! Can you try the name that your Google mini has in your Google Home app? I believe that's the name that you need to use. I have this running on my Google Mini without any problems, so it should be able to get it to work.
Woow thank you very much Ed now it is working!! Even creating multiroom group in google home and then playing the playlist from spotify now works, and before it was impossible with the HA speaker group. With multiroom it seems impossible to display the artwork from spotify, but for all the other situations its working so i am happy! The artwork is just a detail i have to figure out. Thank you very much! Have just bought you another 5 coffees to thank u ;)
I have diferent media_players, from ikea symfonisk, google nest, tv even a xiaomi gateway that has a small speaker. I want to do an automation that when I arrive home it start's to play in all the speaker an spotify playlist. Is possible to combine diferent media players in one?
Hi Ed, great video! I use Alexa Echo speakers throughout my house. Is there a way to select "everywhere" so that the music streams on all the echo devices at the same time? I can do this in the Alexa app by telling it to "play on everywhere", but have not been able to figure it out in HA.
Hi Robert, you can create a group of speakers in home assistant in helpers.It's in helpers, new helper, group and group of media players and add all the player than you want. Per example call 'house speakers' and create the group and sound all at the same time.
is there anything chepaer than audiocast m5 to convert my existing speakers to wifi speakers. i dont go to raspaudio because i dont want to spend dollars more than what my existing speaker are worth. I wish things were cheaper as the bluetooth adapter to the exiting speakers which is just couple of dollars and easy to install as well
Greetings, just wanted to drop you a note that I was unable to find your Mikrotik setup video. Wasn't shown in searches here or on your own web site. Also there was no open channel to chat with you on Discord. That last one might be attributed to my not warming up to the overly busy Discord platform.
Hi! I didn't create a Mikrotik video. You might have mistaken me for somebody else? My Discord is open. Just go to the welcome channel and tick the green checkmark to see the other channels.
I must say that I've seen this error a couple of days back as well, but it's no longer there. Not sure why, but it might have been an issue in the Spotify connection.
I don't think you explained how to better maintain the scripts. Right now my issue is that I have to create 1 script per device per radio station. Meaning I've got 3 scripts for the same radio station with different speakers in them. How do you prevent that?
