Cast to Sonos Devices

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• Using latest version of spotcast
• I have setup the Spotify integration in Home Assistant (and its working with most Spotify Connect devices)
• Using latest stable version of Home Assistant
• I have Spotify Premium

I am not able to cast to my Sonos devices, despite them being listed as Spotify Connect devices. When the service is sent, if i have sprecified a name associated with a Sonos device i get the following error message. Failed to call service spotcast/start. Could not find device with name Sonos Move.

I am aware of the statement about Sonos not being supported in the Spotify API on the offical documentation for Spotify in Home Assistant, so I dont know if this is a bug per say, I just thought that this might have been a workaround for the issue?

[pkamp]

This integration works fine with Sonos devices, when you find out their spotify_device_id. Since the Spotify api does not help you in that regard, I managed to find the id via the Spotify Web Player. Try these steps

• Open the Spotify Web Player and sign in if needed Make sure you see your Sonos devices in the Connect popup
• Open your browser’s DevTools (F12 for Chrome) Navigate to the Network tab
• Connect to the desired Sonos device in the Web Player
• Find the associated request in your DevTools The request URL looks something like this: https://gew1-spclient.spotify.com/connect-state/v1/connect/transfer/from/my_web_player_device_id/to/my_sonos_device_id The my_sonos_device_id is the spotify_device_id you are looking for.

Et voilà - you can call the spotcast.start service with that id. Hope that helps you!

[fcusson]

@pkamp thank you for the information. That’s great, I was really running in a circle trying to find a solution to get uid. Still not a solution that could be integrated in the project directly but still great.

If you are up for it, you could send a PR with the added information to get the Sonos uid, otherwise, I’ll add in the following weeks