Re: Home Assistant Squeezebox Integration Breaking Change

mamema wrote: 
> can you point out, what to do

Well it really depends what you want to do. At the most basic level,
adding the 'Squeezebox integration to Home Assistant'
(https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/squeezebox/) allows you to
add any of your players to the HA dashboards, display what's playing,
control playback, control playlists (shuffle, repeat), and with the
addition of the 'Mini Media Player custom card'
(https://github.com/kalkih/mini-media-player), sync and unsync players
through the frontend.

But after that, given that the integration allows you to access the
Squeezebox JSON-RPC API through its services, the possibilities are
endless. For example, I've added buttons to my dashboards to play
favourite radio stations, start a SugarCube or Bliss mix, search for a
random album from my Discogs collection and then play it, add all the
other tracks on the album for a currently playing song, or as with the
OP, have a playlist follow me around the house. I have 2 Squeezebox
radios which, depending on whether one or both are on, will switch
between playing as a stereo pair (left + right channel), or as single
stereo player, via a HA automation which detects each player's state.
Finally, with all this set up, it means I can also control it all via
voice commands (I use 'Rhasspy to link with Home Assistant'
(https://rhasspy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/), but it's also possible with
Alexa or Google).

This has taken me a while to set up, but has usually started with me
thinking of something specific that I would like to automate derived
from regular use patterns or wanting to make something more convenient.
I then develop a script or automation to achieve it, and in the process
have learned a lot about scripting, templating and so on. The HA forums
have been an excellent resource whenever I've (frequently) got stuck.

I hope this is helpful as a start, but I'd be more than happy to share
experiences if there's a specific idea that you'd like to achieve.


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