No active device when there is clearly music running

[Tsamsi]

Plan

Premium

Country

Germany

Device

Echo devices

Operating System

API

My Question or Issue

I send a play command to the API. I give spotify the playlist, the offset and the device. Spotify starts the playlist on the desired offset on the designated device (echo dot). When i look on the spotify app on my android phone or on the web player or windows app it all shows: nothing is playing

This means every nextcommand i send to the spotify API which is depending on the pleying on ... device state does not work. I can´t change the volume or pause the playback. I always get the error:

WebapiPlayerError: An error occurred while communicating with Spotify's Web API.
Details: Player command failed: No active device found NO_ACTIVE_DEVICE.

 I currently send my commands via node red. And everything worked fine until Spotify change the device id´s of all amazon devices.

Has anybody any tips?

[Prague]

Hey Tsamsi, so it seems like the issue is related to the device ID of your Echo Dot being changed by Spotify, which is causing the commands you send via node red to fail.

One solution would be to update the device ID in your code to match the new ID assigned by Spotify. You can do this by retrieving the new ID from the Spotify app or website, and then updating the device ID in your code accordingly.

Alternatively, you can try resetting your Echo Dot to its factory settings and setting it up again with the Spotify app to see if that resolves the issue.

Hope to of helped,

-Prague the Dog

[Tsamsi]

my current script asks spotify for the id of all devices  and then i check which one is the right device then i say play on device and thats it. sure i delete the "_amzn1" because spotify gives me back an error back with device not found otherwice