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by Jarvy 1649 days ago
I've been meaning to take a look at Spotify through Home Assistant and what that is capable of (and potentially voice controlling it)

But, if you wanted to write some python to directly play some pre-defined playlists (it currently can't do open speech transcription), you could definitely make that happen with Home Intent!

It supports custom components, so any integration is technically possible: https://homeintent.io/reference/developer/example-component/

I tried to design the interface to be easy to understand what sentences trigger what functions, and not have to write a lot of boiler code.

Hope this helps!

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Cheers!

The Spotify part I'm assuming I will figure out - was more curious as to how your experience with voice control has been, if it performs well enough to be practical.

I think we're just about there. The wake word could still be a tad better, which might just be some settings on my part. Most of the time the intent recognition works as expected. At this point, it's how we primarily control lights and timers at home. So pretty practical!