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scholtzan / homebridge-rusty-spotify

Spotify plugin for Homebridge written in Rust
MIT License
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Think about using the Homebridge Speaker/SmartSpeaker instead of light source characteristics #7

Open dotWee opened 3 years ago

dotWee commented 3 years ago

I think defining the accessory as a Speaker or even a SmartSpeaker and applying its characteristics would be more intuitive instead of declaring it as a light source.

It requires a functioning mute action and optional volume settings.

Related documentation:

scholtzan commented 3 years ago

One problem with Speaker or SmartSpeaker is that the type is not supported by HomeKit. When I set the type to Speaker, HomeKit says "This accessory is not certified and may not work reliably with HomeKit" and the accessory becomes unresponsive.

I could, however, add an accessoryType option to the config that determines whether accessories are registered as light accessories or speaker accessories.

dotWee commented 3 years ago

Would you mind sharing your modifications as a branch? I'd love to debug & dig into it!

scholtzan commented 3 years ago

Sure, I added a service_type option to the config that determines whether the Lightbulb or Speaker service is used for Spotify accessories. You can find the changes in this PR: https://github.com/scholtzan/homebridge-rusty-spotify/pull/12

I also found some issues related to HomeKit not supporting Speaker and SmartSpeaker services in the Homebridge repository: