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by squeed 641 days ago
I, too, built almost the same thing for my kids. It plays music, using Spotify, Chromecast, and a whole lot of virtual duct-tape via HomeAssistant.

There is also an NFC tag that will turn off all the lights and turn on a disco ball :-).
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ramses0 641 days ago
Emergency Party Button strikes again! https://youtu.be/nZIfIzNW9xM
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fivestones 639 days ago
How did you get Spotify to play? Are you using an official Spotify client? Casting Spotify via code/home assistant somehow? When I tried to do something similar (was trying to run a cron job to cast a particular playlist from Spotify to play on my chromecast audio/speakers every morning) maybe 8 years ago I couldn’t figure out how. Maybe it’s easier now?
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