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Simple music playing concept (programming.dev)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/homeassistant

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Hey everyone.

I have my homeassistant setup. Something I'm looking to do is a simple alarm clock, slowly turning up my LED strip, and gradually say turning on music in 1% increments. But I really haven't had much luck coming up with a not silly $100 + system to, just have a music player that hass can control. I have a basic bottom line tablet in our bedroom set up as a home assistant dashboard. we have a paid spotify account.

But I'm kind of losing my head trying to wrap around exactly what or how to actually get a controllable system. that can be set up in my bedroom without any costly additions to my bedroom. We have plenty of bluetooth speakers, but to my knowledge all of them require actually turning them on manually if they weren't playing music before. Which kind of negates their value for an alarm clock.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Either you have a smart speaker that is controlled by HA, or you have dumb speakers connected to something smart that is controlled by HA.

Ordinary Bluetooth speakers are dumb so they need to be left on and connected. Can your tablet run some kind of audio server in the background?