Spotify integration can't start playing music because "No active playback device found"

[kompre]

The problem

Hi,

I've set up an automation that will select an echo device as source (media_player.select_source) and play a spotify playlist (media_player.play_media).

This automation has worked as intended during the testing phase, but fails in "production", to be precise it failed at the step of playing the playlist when the automation got triggered by the time condition (alarm clock).

The trace will show the error message mentioned in the title No active playback device found

I've tested a little and found out that the automation worked during initial phase of testing because I've opened the spotify app on my phone to check if the source had been correctly switched to the echo device, therefore I already had an active session started. But when the automation is supposed to trigger, before the alarm clock, there is no active session, spotify has been dormant, like me, for awhile.

I can reproduce the issue quit easily, I just need to manually run the automation (or call the service via developer tools) without opening the spotify app or playing any spotify media for awhile, and it will fail every time with the same error message.

How can I cold start a spotify session automatically, without me needing to open the app or start playing music? Or is it the intended use?

I am trying to correct a dumb behavior of my echo alarm clock that, even if I choose what particular playlist to play as alarm clock, the echo will not play such playlist, but instead start playing the last song/playlist I was listening to the day before.

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2022.3.8

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

No response

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

spotify

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/spotify/

Diagnostics information

I'll attach the trace timeline of the last failed run

Triggered manually at 4 April 2022, 22:21:45
Call service media_player.select_source on entities media_player.spotify_kompre
turn_on Echo camera shuffle switch
Call service media_player.volume_mute on entities media_player.echo_camera
Delay for {"hours":0,"minutes":0,"seconds":15,"milliseconds":0}
15 seconds later
Play MORNING VIBES ☕️ on Spotify kompre
Stopped because an error was encountered at 4 April 2022, 22:22:00 (runtime: 15.47 seconds)

No active playback device found

Example YAML snippet

(edited to cut unnecessary step of the automation)
id: '1648040302430'
alias: Reset morning song
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: time
    at: sensor.pre_sveglia
condition: []
action:
  - service: media_player.select_source
    data:
      source: Echo camera
    target:
      entity_id: media_player.spotify_kompre
  - service: media_player.play_media
    target:
      entity_id: media_player.spotify_kompre
    data:
      media_content_id: spotify:playlist:0BP6NWUDH0BAuH6OrqEfRv
      media_content_type: spotify://playlist
    metadata:
      title: MORNING VIBES ☕️
      thumbnail: https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67706c0000bebb514f45fe52c77027574db797
      media_class: playlist
      children_media_class: track
      navigateIds:
        - {}
        - media_content_type: spotify://current_user_playlists
          media_content_id: current_user_playlists
        - media_content_type: spotify://playlist
          media_content_id: spotify:playlist:0BP6NWUDH0BAuH6OrqEfRv

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

Logger: homeassistant.components.automation.reset_morning_song
Source: components/automation/__init__.py:514
Integration: Automation (documentation, issues)
First occurred: 22:22:00 (1 occurrences)
Last logged: 22:22:00

Error while executing automation automation.reset_morning_song: No active playback device found

Additional information

No response

[probot-home-assistant]

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[probot-home-assistant]

Hey there @frenck, mind taking a look at this issue as it has been labeled with an integration (spotify) you are listed as a code owner for? Thanks!
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[mclever]

2022.4 for me and seeing this in logs and Spotify doesn't work at all for me.

Logger: homeassistant.components.websocket_api.http.connection
Source: components/spotify/media_player.py:109
Integration: Home Assistant WebSocket API (documentation, issues)
First occurred: 4:35:20 PM (1 occurrences)
Last logged: 4:35:20 PM

[547557920096] No active playback device found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/websocket_api/commands.py", line 193, in handle_call_service
await hass.services.async_call(
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/core.py", line 1634, in async_call
task.result()
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/core.py", line 1671, in _execute_service
await cast(Callable[[ServiceCall], Awaitable[None]], handler.job.target)(
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/entity_component.py", line 204, in handle_service
await service.entity_service_call(
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/service.py", line 677, in entity_service_call
future.result() # pop exception if have
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/entity.py", line 955, in async_request_call
await coro
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/service.py", line 714, in _handle_entity_call
await result
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/media_player/init.py", line 674, in async_media_play
await self.hass.async_add_executor_job(self.media_play)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 58, in run
result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/spotify/media_player.py", line 109, in wrapper
raise HomeAssistantError("No active playback device found") from None
homeassistant.exceptions.HomeAssistantError: No active playback device found

[mclever]

Removed integration and removed from yaml. When I tried to re-add getting max retries error

Logger: spotipy.client
Source: /usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/spotipy/client.py:276
First occurred: 6:55:40 PM (8 occurrences)
Last logged: 7:06:40 PM

Max Retries reached

[mclever]

working fine for me now with latest HA release 2022.4.5. @kompre is yours fixed?

the Max Retries reached I was getting was solved by going back to the yaml config and redoing the sp_key values in the integration documentation

[kompre]

I am on 2022.4.5 but I still get the same error message "no active playback device found"

Looking at the logs I found this also

Logger: spotipy.client
Source: /usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/spotipy/client.py:262
First occurred: 05:30:00 (6 occurrences)
Last logged: 14:06:44

HTTP Error for PUT to https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player with Params: {} returned 404 due to Not found.
HTTP Error for PUT to https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/play with Params: {} returned 404 due to Player command failed: No active device found

Never got to the stage of max tries error tough. You got that after deleting the integration and adding again?

[mclever]

Yes. Also, part of my problem was the redirect URL in Spotify app was not set to the correct ip. Unsure why it worked before and then just stopped after update.

[Kalembang]

I am having the same issue. However, I have noticed it will work fine if the device is already playing spotify, or it was recently playing spotify.

[kompre]

I've tried to delete the integration and yaml configuration, and configure from scratch again, but I still get the same error message No active playback device found

The log says this:

Logger: spotipy.client
Source: /usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/spotipy/client.py:262
First occurred: 26 April 2022, 14:21:36 (11 occurrences)
Last logged: 06:30:05


HTTP Error for PUT to https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/play with Params: {} returned 404 due to Player command failed: No active device found
HTTP Error for PUT to https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/pause with Params: {} returned 404 due to Player command failed: No active device found
HTTP Error for PUT to https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player with Params: {} returned 404 due to Not found.
HTTP Error for PUT to https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/play with Params: {} returned 404 due to Not found.

As stated in the opening post, the automation will work if there is already an active Spotify session, started manually from my phone directly from the app.

I'm on 2022.4.7 now

[smarthomefamilyverrips]

I have same problem, using spotcast now to start playing music from spotify through automations

[frenck]

This is not a bug. Starting Spotify media without an active device, makes it impossible for Spotify to determine on which device to start playing; which is exactly what this error message is: "No active playback device found".

[Maximus48p]

This is not a bug. Starting Spotify media without an active device, makes it impossible for Spotify to determine on which device to start playing; which is exactly what this error message is: "No active playback device found".

Having same issue and yes, the message is correct..... but......
The problem is, that the player is not visible anymore in the dropdown list..... so you're not able to select the player anymore.
For some reason the player is removed form the list;
a) why is this happening?
b) Is there an option to hardcode the list of devices?
c) It it possible to always fallback on a default (hard coded) player?