Unable to deactivate shuffle

[greggannicott]

The problem

Hi.

I'm attempting to start a playlist with shuffle disabled.

From what I can tell, the shuffle property works when it is true (eg. if shuffle isn't on, and true is passed in, it sets shuffle to true in Spotify).

But when I pass in false it doesn't appear to have an impact (eg. if shuffle is on in Spotify, and I pass in false, it doesn't turn off shuffling).

I don't know if this is intentional, but it wasn't what I was expecting to happen.

System Health details

System Information

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arch	aarch64
timezone	Europe/London
config_dir	/config

Home Assistant Community Store

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Home Assistant Cloud

logged_in	false
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can_reach_cloud	ok

Home Assistant Supervisor

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virtualization
board	green
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Dashboards

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Recorder

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estimated_db_size	13.95 MiB
database_engine	sqlite
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Spotify

api_endpoint_reachable	ok

Spotcast Version

v4.0.0

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Diagnostics information

home-assistant_spotcast_2025-01-09T21-42-04.203Z.log

Example YAML snippet

sequence:
  - action: spotcast.start
    data:
      spotify_device_id: "{{device_id}}"
      uri: "{{playlist}}"
      random_song: "{{shuffle}}"
      shuffle: "{{shuffle}}"
fields:
  device_id:
    selector:
      select:
        options:
          - label: Office Stereo
            value: df12ae1c1cfbfdeca2bda732a16edcc3fc1e84ce
          - label: Office Echo
            value: 0f6a5b55-e195-46c7-a34e-662451f40aaa_amzn_1
          - label: Kitchen Echo
            value: 3414c699-b203-4e86-8310-7ab827c45135_amzn_1
          - label: Bedroom Echo
            value: 2f7053c3-147b-418d-acf5-d2e25796133f_amzn_1
          - label: Snug Echo
            value: f7267b64-c1b1-428a-a283-f716ae6314ba_amzn_1
    name: Device ID
    description: Which Spotify Connect player do you wish to play the playlist on?
    required: true
  playlist:
    selector:
      text: null
    name: Playlist
    description: Which playlist do you wish to play?
    required: true
  shuffle:
    selector:
      boolean: {}
    name: shuffle
    default: false
    required: true
description: ""
alias: "Spotify: Play Playlist on Specified Spotify Source (with Spotcast)"

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

At the end of the log there are two attempts to play a playlist.

The first has shuffle set to true, and you can see that it is turning shuffle on:

2025-01-09 21:41:21.288 DEBUG (SyncWorker_3) [custom_components.spotcast] Turning shuffle on

However the subsequent run has shuffle set to false and there is no mention of turning shuffle off. This is reflected in the end results.

Additional information

I've tried to simplify my script by not using fields and by hard coding false for the shuffle value, but I get the same results.

Also, just to say thanks for a great tool! I was struggling with HA and Spotify until I found this.

[fcusson]

@greggannicott, I think that was the original intent, but either way, when working on the rewrite that is currently in beta I changed it to hard-setting shuffle to true or false when requested and keeping as is if not provided

[greggannicott]

Fantastic, thank you!