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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Initial-Influence-22 on 2025-03-13 23:14:49+00:00.

I moved to VoicePE since it was release and replaced it with my Alexa.

One feature, that I missed instantly, is the possibility to play any song from Spotify on any speaker using my voice.

Hence, I came up with a couple of scripts to do it on my own and I thought this is worth sharing with you. (Spoiler: It does not require Music Assistant)

The idea is to use a custom sentence in HA that goes like: "Play in ".

To do that, first of all a Spotify DEV account and a client ID + secret must be created.

ID and secret must be stored base64 converted in the secrets.yaml in HA.

It is important to encode it like that "ClientID:Secret".

Now, two REST commands must be created in the configuration.yaml in HA.

The first one is used to get the access token and the second one is used for the actual search.

rest_command:
  access_spotify:
    url: https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token
    method: POST
    headers:
      authorization: !secret spotify_token
    content_type:  'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
    payload: "grant_type=client_credentials"
  find_spotify:
    url: https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=%7B%7Bsearch_string%7D%7D&amp%3Btype=track&amp%3Blimit=1&amp%3Boffset=0
    method: GET
    headers:
      authorization: "Bearer {{token}}"
    content_type:  'application/json; charset=utf-8'

This can now be used in the custom sentence automation (German):

triggers:
  - trigger: conversation
    command: Spiele {search_track} [im|in|auf] {room}
    alias: Spotify
    id: Spotify
actions:
  - alias: Access
    action: rest_command.access_spotify
    response_variable: access_result
    data: {}
  - alias: Search
    action: rest_command.find_spotify
    data:
      token: "{{ access_result['content']['access_token'] }}"
      search_string: "{{ trigger.slots.search_track }}"
    response_variable: spotify_result
  - alias: Play
    if:
      - condition: template
        value_template: "{{ spotify_result['status'] == 200 }}"
    then:
      - alias: Parse data
        variables:
          url: spotify_result['content']['tracks']['items'][0]['external_urls']['spotify']
          track: spotify_result['content']['tracks']['items'][0]['artists'][0]['name']
          artist: spotify_result['content']['tracks']['items'][0]['artists'][0]['name']
          player: >-
            {% if trigger.slots.room == 'büro' %} media_player.buro
            {% elif trigger.slots.room == 'wohnzimmer' %} media_player.wohnzimmer
            {% elif trigger.slots.room == 'schlafzimmer' %} media_player.schlafzimmer
            {% else %} error {% endif %}
          error: "{{ spotify_result|length < 0 }}"
  - alias: Check and Play
    if:
      - condition: or
        conditions:
          - condition: template
            value_template: "{{ error }}"
          - condition: template
            value_template: "{{ player == 'error' }}"
    then:
      - set_conversation_response: Keine Titel oder Player gefunden
    else:
      - set_conversation_response: Spiele {{ track }} von {{ artist }} auf {{ trigger.slots.room }}
      - action: media_player.play_media
        metadata: {}
        target:
          entity_id: "{{ player }}"
        data:
          media_content_id: "{{ url }}"
          media_content_type: music

Now go ahead and roast me for this complicated (but working!) setup 😊