# Spotify on Home Assistant

Here I would like to share my personal experience of setting up [Spotify](https://spotify.com/) streaming music on home server


## What I have

There is a Rasbperry Pi 4 and Home Assistant [Core](https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/raspberrypi#install-home-assistant-core) installed

There is also a sound amplifier connected to the Raspberry Pi with mini jack to mini jack cable

## What I want

I want to control Spotify music in Home Assistant dashboard and I want the computer be a client of Spotify. I'm aware there is the [Spotify Integration](https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/spotify/) for HASS and we'll get to it later. The problem is I need a running device (smartphone, TV, laptop) with Spotify client so I need to make my Raspberry Pi the client of the streaming service.

And here's what I found

## Spotifyd

[Spotifyd](https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd) - an open source Spotify client running as a UNIX daemon. This is going to be our Spotify client.

Unfortunatelly there was no binary for Raspberry Pi 4, so I built it myself.

1. Install Rust and dependencies

curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSF | sh
sudo apt install pkg-config libasound2-dev

2. Download the repository and build

git clone https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd
cd spotifyd
cargo build --release

3. Find out the output audio device

aplay -L 

In my case it was `bcm2835`

4. Edit spotifyd configuration
Put your credentials in the config, specify the output device, give the client a name. I also commented `volume_controller` due to some errors, but in the end it worked

## Spotify-tui

[Spotify TUI](https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui) - a Spotify client for the terminal written in Rust. It's just a UI that allows us to control any connected device, but it's not a client. In order to make it work with spotifyd follow the simple steps from [here](https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui#using-with-spotifyd).

At this point we are able to control music with spt. Start any song, in the last step we'll control the streaming from Home Assistant

## Control Spotify in Home Assistant

Install and setup [Spotify integration](https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/spotify/). It's pretty strightforward.

I chose [Mini Media Player](https://github.com/kalkih/mini-media-player). It has many options to customize with outlook and it supports Spotify.

> If you haven't found `config/www` directory, create one so it'll look like `~/.homeassistant/www`

Finally add the card to the dashboard