spotcast vs spotify-card

spotcast

Home assistant custom component to start Spotify playback on an idle chromecast device as well as control spotify connect devices (by fondberg)

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Spotify playlist card for Home Assistant card (by custom-cards)

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spotcast

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Meet Atom the GPT Assistant, an AI-powered Smart Home Assistant. It's like Google Assistant but with endless possibility of ChatGPT, it's like Siri but with extensibility of Open Source power.
6 projects | /r/homeautomation | 27 Apr 2023

Yes, the GPT Assistant relies on HomeAssistant, which you can use the official spotify integration plus spotcast to play a specific playlist of Spotify on a specific device (say speaker that supports ChromeCast)
Has anyone managed to cast a Spotify playlist?
1 project | /r/nodered | 7 Jul 2022

Use this custom component in Home Assistant to cast to a Spotify-connected device: https://github.com/fondberg/spotcast
Spotify on HomeAssistant
2 projects | /r/homeautomation | 15 Dec 2021

According to https://github.com/fondberg/spotcast/issues/170 that issue was fixed a while back but I'm sure I've seen it since. Just noticed I had an update pending for spotcadt so make sure it's up to date
https://np.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/ock207/my_work_in_progress_copied_from_others/h3vs2n2/
13 projects | /r/backtickbot | 2 Jul 2021
Spotify intergration - running on iMac
1 project | /r/homeassistant | 1 Feb 2021

Ah okay. Well spotcast should meet those requirements perfectly 😃
Scheduled Spotify to Google Home Playlist
1 project | /r/homeassistant | 9 Jan 2021

And Spotcast: SPOTCAST

spotify-card

Posts with mentions or reviews of spotify-card. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-02.

https://np.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/ock207/my_work_in_progress_copied_from_others/h3vs2n2/
13 projects | /r/backtickbot | 2 Jul 2021
I'm so happy with this setup...
4 projects | /r/homeassistant | 31 Jan 2021

no worries - the spotify card above the players is this one - https://github.com/custom-cards/spotify-card but I have it configured to work with the drop down and dual accounts.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing spotcast and spotify-card you can also consider the following projects:

mini-media-player - Minimalistic media card for Home Assistant Lovelace UI

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lovelace-layout-card - 🔹 Get more control over the placement of lovelace cards.

hass-browser_mod - 🔹 A Home Assistant integration to turn your browser into a controllable entity and media player

homeassistant-peloton-sensor - A platform which allows you to get current and past ride data from Peloton into HomeAssistant

PlexMeetsHomeAssistant - Custom card which integrates plex into Home Assistant and makes it possible to launch movies or tv shows on TV with a simple click

mini-graph-card - Minimalistic graph card for Home Assistant Lovelace UI

lovelace-slider-entity-row - 🔹 Add sliders to entity cards

button-card - ❇️ Lovelace button-card for home assistant