Bug Ticket

Describe the bug

The service always looks for device_name even after providing the entity_id. It was working great till yesterday and then after the recent updates of both HA and the spotcast to the latest 3.7.1 something broke. I cant confirm if its HA or spotcast.

Troubleshooting

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[x] Using latest version of spotcast
[x] Using latest stable version of Home Assistant
[x] I have setup the Spotify integration in Home Assistant
[x] I have renewed my sp_dc and sp_key values and restarted Home Assistant (see README)
[x] (optional) I have Spotify Premium
[x] (optional) I am using multiple accounts
[x] (optional) I'm attaching relevant logs with level debug for component spotcast (see README)
[x] (optional) I'm using entity_id in the service call and have tried device_name but the issue remains

Environment

Installation type: [HA_OS]
HA version: [2024.1.6]
spotcast version: [3.7.1]

Configuration

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<insert configuration here>

Service Call

If relevant, provide a yaml of the service call or explain the action taken to replicate the issue.

service: spotcast.start
data:
  account: home_assistant
  limit: 20
  force_playback: false
  random_song: true
  repeat: true
  shuffle: true
  offset: 0
  ignore_fully_played: false
  uri: spotify:playlist:7KvP5E4IuBi6ctxgA9goAS
  entity_id: media_player.bathroom_speaker
  start_volume: 5

Logs

normal

Logger: homeassistant.components.websocket_api.http.connection
Source: components/websocket_api/connection.py:301
Integration: Home Assistant WebSocket API (documentation, issues)
First occurred: 8:44:19 PM (7 occurrences)
Last logged: 8:57:44 PM

[139814657054400] Error handling message: device_name is empty (home_assistant_error) Tahasanul Ibrahim from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:122.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/122.0)

Additional context

spotcast

fondberg / spotcast

device_name empty even after using entity_id #420