MMM-SpotifyControl . Control your Spotify music player using Mk2 assistant.

Cr4z33

Can someone that is NOT a Spotify Premium user please confirm whether this module works for him too or not?

My (mirror) Google Assistant is not understanding what I want to do and I want to be sure it has nothing to do with this module.

ejay-ibm

@Cr4z33 from here :
https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/quick-start/
“To use the Web API, start by creating a Spotify user account (Premium or Free).”

Note :
Spotify Free is supported by ads.
Every few tracks you play, you will be forced to be interrupted by one or two short adverts, which will also break your pleasure that you get from the music.
Some tracks are not be playable. You can use the desktop and web interfaces, but the mobile app will only let you listen on shuffle mode or pre-made playlists.

with your free account : what does it do when you say “bob marley on spotify” ?

Ejay

Cr4z33

@ejay-ibm said in MMM-SpotifyControl . Control your Spotify music player using Mk2 assistant.:

with your free account : what does it do when you say “bob marley on spotify” ?

Well considering that my (mirror) Google Assistant is set to Italian language it simply replies saying it doesn’t know what I want to do.

On the other hand if I say (in Italian) ‘Hey Google play music on Spotify’ on my living room’s Google Home Mini it works flawlessly.

Actually tell me how is your module supposed to accept that command if we only entered PREV_SONG, PAUSE_SPOTIFY, RESUME_SPOTIFY and PLAY_NEXT_SPOTIFY?
I mean I see no PLAY command there? :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_cold_sweat:

Also aren’t these transcriptionHook entries supposed to be entered into quotation marks?
I ask because I’ve got other entries there and they are ALL into quotation marks.

ejay-ibm

@Cr4z33
Ok I got your point Google assisant and sdk act differently .

What happen when you say something to your assisant:
“Play bob marley on spotify”
It search like you would do in the google search bar
and return a result.
That is your payload for the play … spotify command.
Note that this command is the only one to not have a hook .

So what it does is returning the first result from a google search .

if I type “bob marley spotify” in my search bar i’m getting :
Bob Marley & The Wailers on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2QsynagSdAqZj3U9HgDzjD

That is what is expected from the payload , as we build later the api call from this url .

I would try first to google search for "an artist on spotify in italian’ and see what it return they say to your assisant in italian the same. Usually the assistant quickly display what it find from the search you should see an url like :
https://open.spotify.com/(artist, track or playlist)/with an Id here .

regarding the syntax Quote or double quote doesn’t matter in js.

Both

 transcriptionHook: {
        PREV_SONG: {
           pattern: "previous song",   
           command: "PREV_SONG"
      },
or 
transcriptionHook: {
        PREV_SONG: {
           pattern: 'previous song',   
           command: 'PREV_SONG'
      },

will work the same.

Hope this helps

Ejay

Cr4z33

@ejay-ibm said in MMM-SpotifyControl . Control your Spotify music player using Mk2 assistant.:

@Cr4z33
Both
transcriptionHook: {
PREV_SONG: {
pattern: “previous song”,
command: “PREV_SONG”
},
or
transcriptionHook: {
PREV_SONG: {
pattern: ‘previous song’,
command: ‘PREV_SONG’
},

will work the same.

Hope this helps

Ejay

Sorry you misunderstood me. :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_cold_sweat:

What I meant is don’t we have to put ie. PREV_SONG into quotation marks like

"PREV_SONG": {

?

As for the Google Assistant test you are asking me are you referring to the mirror module or to my Google Home Mini device?

ejay-ibm

@Cr4z33
don’t use your google home device it’s not comparable .
I have one as well at home and it’s working completely differently, otherwise, I would not have to write this module. So i’m refering to what interest us your Mk2 assistant on your mirror .

ejay

Cr4z33

It says something like ‘I am sorry I don’t know how to help you, but I am learning new things day by day’.

I am 100% sure that all the API/token details are correct and still valid (if I run MMM-NowPlayingOnSpotify it works flawlessly).

ejay-ibm

@Cr4z33
What Are you saying exactly ?
What is the result of this if you try to type in in your google search bar ?
did you simply try : “bob marley spotify” ?
what is your search result ? in google ?

Cr4z33

@ejay-ibm
I am saying that:

If I say in Italian to MMM-AssistantMk2 play Bob Marley on Spotify then Google Assistant replies (by voice) that he doesn’t know how to help me
If I search for bob marley spotify on Google then the first result I get is this link

ejay-ibm

@Cr4z33 try to just say “Bob Marley Spotify” so there’s no language interaction.

Cr4z33

@ejay-ibm just tried and again GA says he apologizes, but he doesn’t know right now how to help me.

Cr4z33

@ejay-ibm perhaps it doesn’t work (yet) when using GA in another language than English?

ejay-ibm

@Cr4z33 Well i’m using it in french … so I don’t think so .
I need to think a bit why your payload is incorrect.

Cr4z33

@ejay-ibm sure take your time mate as I might probably not resume testing before tomorrow afternoon. ;)

F17MC

@ejay-ibm I thought your module only works to play/stop/next/previous. I have tried run “Bob Marley Spotify” and nothing happens. With other artist the same.
If I can test something…
Pd: Spanish + Spotify premium

ejay-ibm

@F17MC @Cr4z33
I don’t think the issue is with the module but with what the assistant return to the module .

the module is expecting something like “”(open.spotify.com - https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Gkz5N7rWiCE3jlCgsw1yp""

So i’m not getting why your assistant doesn’t understand what to search for.

I’ll continue digging

Ejay

Cr4z33

@ejay-ibm OK thanks I might ask also @Sean tomorrow to see if he knows anything we don’t. :D

ejay-ibm

@Cr4z33 I’m already working on it with @Sean ;)

quick question : if you just say “micheal jackson smooth criminal”
does it start playing youtube ?
if yes then just try “micheal jackson smooth criminal spotify”
and let me know

If that doesn’t work I’ll ask you some patience so I can implement the spotify search function directly in my module and not from the assistant. We will just use a hook in the assisant .

Ejay

F17MC

@ejay-ibm yes, with YouTube it works. But with Spotify no. I try with “artist + song Spotify”, “artist + song on Spotify” etc. Always run the video in YouTube.

ejay-ibm

@F17MC That is interesting … that mean the result of the assistant research never bring a spotify url but a youtube one . a openspotify url is what the module expect to work .

So we know now that under some circumpstance the module doesn’t get the right payload from assistant to work.
Thanks for testing and reporting this guys .

I’ll work with sean to implement a search function directly with the spotify APIs call . With that we will make the search directly on spotify ( and not on google ) so we will bypass this issue .

I’m wondering where the difference is between you and I, because it work fine here and as well another German guy Mantha who is the original code creator .

Anyway, there’s no problem … only solution .

I’ll keep you informed once the module is updated .

Ejay .