#Play Spotify on specific device - android phone?

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haughty fulcrum
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I am trying to make it so that when I tap my phone to an NFC tag, it will play my workout playlist on my phone. But it keeps playing the playlist on my Echo instead. I think it can't find my phone sometimes?

patent wigeon
haughty fulcrum
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data:
  source: Kiwi's S21 Ultra
target:
  entity_id: media_player.spotifyplus_kiwibox```

```action: media_player.play_media
target:
  entity_id: media_player.spotify_kiwibox
data:
  media_content_id: spotify:playlist:xxx
  media_content_type: spotify://playlist
metadata:
  title: My Playlist
  thumbnail: >-
    https://image-cdn-ak.spotifycdn.com/image/xxx
  media_class: playlist
  children_media_class: track
  navigateIds:
    - {}
    - media_content_type: spotify://current_user_playlists
      media_content_id: current_user_playlists```
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think i blocked it wrong ;[

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oh there we go

patent wigeon
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ah so its just a spotify integration your sending "play" to. i guess it picks a "default". have you tried setting it all up through music assistant? you might be able to get better control that way?

haughty fulcrum
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hmm, not sure what music assistant is yet. literally just isntalled HA like 2 hours ago and have been trying to get this to work with spotify

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i feel like its because my phone disappears from spotify's device list after some time

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because it works when i have it playing on my phone and test it back it forth

patent wigeon
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music assistant is an addon which handles all music stuff very nicely

patent wigeon
haughty fulcrum
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ah i just found music assistant and tried installing the integration but it said "failed to connect"

patent wigeon
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there is the "addon" and the "integration"
the integration connects to the addon

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how do you have home assistant installed?

haughty fulcrum
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i have home assistant yellow box

patent wigeon
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cool, so your using haos

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setting -> addons

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then add-on store

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and music assistant server should be an option to install

haughty fulcrum
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ok i see it

patent wigeon
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once its installed it should pop up to add on the integration page

haughty fulcrum
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ok cool

patent wigeon
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this graphic gives you an idea of what it does 🙂

MA_banner.png
haughty fulcrum
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oof my head is spinning haha

patent wigeon
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you should be able to add spotify as a "source"

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music assistant is a large tool with a lot of options

haughty fulcrum
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ok will play with it a bit

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thx

patent wigeon
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i havent done it but you can use "spotify connect" to connect any media player you can integrate within home assistant back to spotify as a media target. so if you have something thats not spotify compatable but it is HA compatable then HA will make it spotify compatable

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they also have their own discord
https://discord.gg/uHqqXNtn
if you have specific questions they may know more.
basically, Music Assistant is the way to do music stuff from HA these days

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welcome to the addictive hobby that is home assistant btw 🙂

haughty fulcrum
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hehe thanks