Failed to get device id from spotify

Hi all, many thanks to @fondberg for the great component. So I was able to manage the requirement that my kids are able to ask our google home minis to play a random album. They are using it since months in during the covid pandemic…

Since yesterday evening the spotcast component can’t start any playback. I already restarted my home assistant instance and inserted new values for sp_dc and sp_key to be sure that the token is valid. No updates are made since last week.

Spotcast is build up a connection to my Google Home (I can hear the “bling”) but then I got the message “Failed to get device id from spotify”.

2021-03-23 08:08:53 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.websocket_api.http.connection] [1860452328] Failed to get device id from Spotify
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/websocket_api/commands.py", line 141, in handle_call_service
await hass.services.async_call(
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/core.py", line 1488, in async_call
task.result()
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/core.py", line 1523, in _execute_service
await handler.job.target(service_call)
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/script/__init__.py", line 218, in service_handler
await script_entity.async_turn_on(
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/script/__init__.py", line 323, in async_turn_on
await coro
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/script.py", line 1041, in async_run
await asyncio.shield(run.async_run())
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/script.py", line 254, in async_run
await self._async_step(log_exceptions=False)
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/script.py", line 262, in _async_step
await getattr(
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/script.py", line 466, in _async_call_service_step
await self._async_run_long_action(service_task)
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/script.py", line 428, in _async_run_long_action
long_task.result()
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/core.py", line 1488, in async_call
task.result()
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/core.py", line 1523, in _execute_service
await handler.job.target(service_call)
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/script/__init__.py", line 218, in service_handler
await script_entity.async_turn_on(
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/script/__init__.py", line 323, in async_turn_on
await coro
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/script.py", line 1041, in async_run
await asyncio.shield(run.async_run())
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/script.py", line 254, in async_run
await self._async_step(log_exceptions=False)
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/script.py", line 262, in _async_step
await getattr(
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/script.py", line 463, in _async_call_service_step
await service_task
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/core.py", line 1488, in async_call
task.result()
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/core.py", line 1527, in _execute_service
await self._hass.async_add_executor_job(handler.job.target, service_call)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 57, in run
result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File "/config/custom_components/spotcast/__init__.py", line 296, in start_casting
spotify_device_id = spotify_cast_device.getSpotifyDeviceId(client)
File "/config/custom_components/spotcast/__init__.py", line 478, in getSpotifyDeviceId
raise HomeAssistantError("Failed to get device id from Spotify")
homeassistant.exceptions.HomeAssistantError: Failed to get device id from Spotify

Playback using open.spotify.com or the app is working without any issue on the chromecast devices.

Any hints?

Thanks, Kai

[fondberg]

Hello everybody.

Open source is great and free which in the case of just one person going the work (me) can lead to situations where during periods of sick leave or pressing matters elsewhere (work) thiings piles up.

I would urge you to put efforts into trying to help out by fixing things through pull requests rather than say something is broken several times and come up with arbitrary non version controlled patches.

I too noticed this is broken and if no one chips in i will try and fix it when i have time

[provinzio]

Why does everyone on github feel the urge to spam. Just click on the notification bell if you want to be alerted or say something useful…

Please don’t respond to this, I know it’s spam, too, but I would like to save my postbox from more of this “Same”.