Spotify Client Local API

Nov 28, 2017 · 3 min read

While I was setting up my local instance of Home Assistant, I discovered a really awesome media component for my Plex media server. Since I thought this Home Assistant component was pretty awesome, I searched high and low for similar Spotify capability. What I found out was that Spotify does not support getting current track information through their web API, so no one bothered creating a component. So this post is the first part of a three part quest of what I set out to do…

Ah Blogging

Nov 26, 2016 · 1 min read

After twelve years in the technology industry, I've decided to create a blog. I will kick off the blog with a three part series about interacting with a headless Spotify client and exposing an API to Home Assistant. Hopefully this won't end in disaster, so here we go!