Playing on chromecast devices doesn't work

Describe the bug

I couldn’t play to chromecast devices. I set everything up according to the README: spotify integration, spotcast, lovelace-spotify-card. So I checked issues #182 and #174 and followed the steps in there. I re-started the setup then and only used one account.

Reporting this here since it seems to be a spotcast issue, not of the spotify-lovelace-card.

I see this in the logs:

Error executing service: <ServiceCall spotcast.start (c:8780b51c4b820d07593395d2c811c809): uri=spotify:playlist:37i9dQZF1DWUJiNTfqDwyS, force_playback=False, random_song=True, account=daften, device_name=Office speaker, start_volume=101, repeat=off, shuffle=False, ignore_fully_played=False, offset=0>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/core.py", line 1507, in catch_exceptions
    await coro_or_task
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/core.py", line 1530, in _execute_service
    await self._hass.async_add_executor_job(handler.job.target, service_call)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 52, in run
    result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
  File "/config/custom_components/spotcast/__init__.py", line 143, in start_casting
    spotify_device_id = spotcast_controller.get_spotify_device_id(
  File "/config/custom_components/spotcast/spotcast_controller.py", line 202, in get_spotify_device_id
    spotify_cast_device.startSpotifyController(access_token, expires)
  File "/config/custom_components/spotcast/spotcast_controller.py", line 84, in startSpotifyController
    sp.launch_app()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pychromecast/controllers/spotify.py", line 87, in launch_app
    raise LaunchError(
pychromecast.error.LaunchError: Timeout when waiting for status response from Spotify app

I also see this right after a restart of hass and me probably reloading the dashboard too early:

2021-08-23 01:32:33 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.websocket_api.http.connection] [547426358368] Received invalid command: spotcast/devices

• [ X ] Using latest version of spotcast
• [ X ] I have setup the Spotify integration in Home Assistant
• I am using multiple accounts
• [ X ] Using latest stable version of Home Assistant
• [ X ] I have Spotify Premium
• [ X ] I’m attaching relevant logs with level debug for component spotcast (see README)
• I’m using entity_id in the service call and have tried device_name but the issue remains

Environment (please complete the following information):

• HA version: [ 2021.8.8 ]
• spotcast version: [ 3.6.14 ]

Configuration

# Spotify
spotify:
  client_id: !secret spotify.client_id
  client_secret: !secret spotify.client_secret
# Spotcast
spotcast:
  sp_dc: ''
  sp_key: ''
  accounts:
    daften:
      sp_dc: !secret spotcast.daften_sp_dc
      sp_key: !secret spotcast.daften_sp_key

Additional context

spotcast_debug.txt

[daften]

Some more info I just noticed. It seems spotify does try to connect to the chromecast device, but it just never starts playing. I can see this because the card for the cast player I have next to this, shows spotify connected to it at the time I tried to play a playlist.

[daften]

#244 works for me too, closing this 😃