Controlling Spotify Approved Speakers with Web API: Which ones are supported?

[mtesseract]

Hi all,

if this is the wrong place for my question, please feel free to point me somewhere else. Thank you.

I am a Spotify Premium customer and I am considering to buy Spotify enabled speakers, but it is mandatory for my use-case that I can control them via the Spotify Web API. I have understood that this is not generally the case. For example, I use some Spotify Connect Devices, which are only discoverable using the mobile Spotify App, not via the Web API endpoint https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/devices (they do show up when a Spotify App has been used to trigger playback on them, though).

Regarding my use-case: I am building some custom hardware Spotify controllers for controlling music playback at home. Under the hood there is a Raspberry Pi which receives playback requests from the user and needs to initiate Spotify playback on some speakers.

I did not find a whole lot of information on this topic, especially on the question which speakers would be usable in this scenario. Do such speakers exist at all?

If not, is there a different approach for implementing this? Again, to summarize:

• I have an embedded device, which processes playback requests from the user.
• The device shall initiate audio playback via Spotify on some speakers, preferably using the Web API.
• Speaker and embedded device can be assumed to be in the same network (even in physical proximity).
• Are there other interfaces usable for private Premium customers for controlling playback on Spotify Connect enabled devices?

Thank you very much for your help, it is highly appreciated. Moritz

[pnodseth]

I would also be very interested in an answer on this topic. Which 3rd party speakers are currently usable with the web api ?