Spotify Buttons

[bhopcroft]

Hey,
Thanks for setting this up, its great. I have the radio working on the buttons but I am trying to have spotify playlists on there too.
I can connect to spotify and then I add in a URL for a playlist and add to library but I cant see the library or tiles anywhere. Im sure Im missing something but not sure what.

Also it says to connect to the speaker in the app...not sure if this is meant to be from the developer app that I had to set up?

Apologies if the questions are daft!

Thanks!

[tostmann]

No daft questions here — and I think I know what happened, because it bit someone else before.

Where the library lives: the tiles appear in the Spotify tab of the left sidebar, directly below the add-URL form you already used — same tab, just further down. They behave like the radio tiles: drag one onto a preset slot, push to the speaker. Now the likely catch: versions before v0.8.13 had a bug where the left sidebar couldn't scroll on laptop-height screens — content below the visible edge was simply unreachable. "I added it but can't see it anywhere" matches that exactly. Please check your firmware version (System tab, top status line) and update if you're below v0.8.13 — easiest via System → Check for update, or the "Update existing" button on the web flasher (keeps WiFi, presets and your Spotify auth). If you're already on a current version and the Spotify tab shows no tiles below the form even after a reload, that would be a real bug — post the version here and I'll dig in.

"Connect to the speaker in the app": that means the regular Spotify app on your phone or desktop — not the developer dashboard. The dashboard was a one-time thing to create the Client ID; you never need it again. Background: SixBack triggers playback through Spotify's Web API, which can only target devices Spotify currently lists as available Connect devices. The SoundTouch advertises itself via its built-in Spotify Connect, but after long idle (and after a speaker reboot) it drops off that list — playing any track to the speaker once from the normal Spotify app (device picker → your speaker) puts it back, and from then on the preset buttons work on their own. I've also just reworded that hint in the UI to say this explicitly — your question made clear it was ambiguous.

So: update if below v0.8.13 → Spotify tab → tiles under the form → drag to slot → push → if playback says "no active device", touch the speaker once from the normal Spotify app and retry.