Bose Soundtouch Speakers Missing

[kbrohkahn]

The problem

Bose Soundtouch speakers are not being found after upgrading to 0.113.0. They are no longer showing up as entities, but the speakers themselves did not change, are still connected to the network and can play music from Spotify. The discovery integration was previously finding the speakers so I guess it stopped working.

Environment

arch	x86_64
chassis	desktop
dev	false
docker	true
docker_version	19.03.11
hassio	true
host_os	Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
installation_type	Home Assistant Supervised
os_name	Linux
os_version	4.19.0-6-amd64
python_version	3.8.3
supervisor	229
timezone	America/New_York
version	0.113.0
virtualenv	false

• Home Assistant Core release with the issue: 0.113.0
• Last working Home Assistant Core release (if known): 0.112.X (previous release)
• Operating environment (OS/Container/Supervised/Core): Container
• Integration causing this issue: Bose Soundtouch (discovery integration)
• Link to integration documentation on our website: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/discovery/

Problem-relevant configuration.yaml

Traceback/Error logs

None

Additional information

[kbrohkahn]

Issue persists with the 0.113.1 update, but I was able to manually add all speakers in my configuration.yaml using

  - platform: soundtouch
    host: 10.0.0.201
    port: 8090
    name: Soundtouch Living Room
  - platform: soundtouch
    host: 10.0.0.209
    port: 8090
    name: Soundtouch Dining
  - platform: soundtouch
    host: 10.0.0.220
    port: 8090
    name: Soundtouch Kitchen

Now the speakers are appearing as entities as they should be and all functions appear to be working normally. The zone/slave services are working as well. I guess the integration is working normally but discovery is not, so there is a workaround.

[hdejongh]

same problem here!

[BorisHruby]

Same problem here on 0.114.0. Auto-discovery is not working. I was able to add the speaker manually editing my configuration.yaml file using:

media_player:

• platform: soundtouch
  host: 10.10.10.214
  port: 8090
  name: SoundTouch 30

If I listen to tracks from my library I am able to pause the playing and also start again. Also the arrows for track shifting are working. But if listening to radio from the Lovelace card I am able just to swith off the speaker, that's all. If I want to switch it back on with the corresponding button it just doesn't work. Also after hours of trying almost everything I can't figure out how to make possible such a basic function like the switching between the six presets should be.

[mguaylam]

Same for me. Auto discovery is not finding the speaker but I can see it on Bonjour as : _soundtouch._tcp.

[ttuffin]

I believe this is related to a change made upstream in zeroconf 0.27.0 where they "Removed previously deprecated ServiceInfo address constructor parameter and property", which is used by libsoundtouch. If anyone who has a Bose Soundtouch device please try the following:

1. Clone the libsoundtouch repo: git clone https://github.com/CharlesBlonde/libsoundtouch.git
2. Install the necessary requirements from requirements.txt
3. Open libsoundtouch/utils.py and change line 102
   from: address = socket.inet_ntoa(info.address)
   to: address = info.parsed_addresses()[0]
4. Open up a python interpreter and do:

>>> from libsoundtouch import discover_devices
>>> devices = discover_devices(timeout=2)
>>> print(devices)

Does it work? Great! We need to patch upstream and then test again with HASS.
Do you get an error? If so, what?
No error but also no devices listed? Are you sure your device has Soundtouch in the name? I made the mistake of purchasing the Smart Soundbar 300, which is different to the Soundtouch 300 and the Smart soundbar does not have the necessary API for integration. Hence why I can't test this patch.

[hellspawny2k]

Good Morning,
i have done your request, running in the following error:

>>> from libsoundtouch import discover_devices
>>> devices = discover_devices(timeout=2)
Exception in thread zeroconf-ServiceBrowser__soundtouch._tcp.local.:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/threading.py", line 932, in _bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/zeroconf/__init__.py", line 1557, in run
    self._service_state_changed.fire(
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/zeroconf/__init__.py", line 1333, in fire
    h(**kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/zeroconf/__init__.py", line 1427, in on_change
    listener.add_service(*args)
  File "/root/libsoundtouch/libsoundtouch/utils.py", line 102, in add_service
    address = socket.info.parsed_addresses()[0]
AttributeError: module 'socket' has no attribute 'info'
>>> print(devices)
[]

[ttuffin]

@hellspawny2k, your change to line 102 is incorrect. You changed it to address = socket.info.parsed_addresses()[0], when it should be address = info.parsed_addresses()[0]. Please update it and try again.

[hellspawny2k]

@ttuffin , next time i read it ;)
now it works. Here is the output:

>>> from libsoundtouch import discover_devices
>>> devices = discover_devices(timeout=2)
>>> print(devices)
[<libsoundtouch.device.SoundTouchDevice object at 0x7f3cebe45cd0>, <libsoundtouch.device.SoundTouchDevice object at 0x7f3cebe459a0>]

[ttuffin]

Thanks @hellspawny2k. We need to patch the libsoundtouch library to fix the autodiscovery, but it looks like the repo has been dormant for quite some time. I've tried reaching out to the owner to see if we can get a PR through. If that fails, we may need to look at forking the repo.

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[Gompman]

Unfortunately, auto discovery still does not work. Please activate the issue again.

[ttuffin]

@Gompman I tried contacting the owner of the libsoundtouch library but unfortunately I never heard anything back. Since that repo is dead in the water I think it's best to fork it, make the necessary changes and release it on PyPi under a different name and update the HA Soundtouch integration to use the new package.