MA Player not reflecting status of HA Player (linkplay) when using Spotify Connect

[AThomsen]

In HA I have some LinkPlay (AudioPro) devices set up. They are set up in MA as well.

I experience this "bug":

1. In Music Assistant, start playing a radio stream.
2. On my in the Spotify app, I connect to the player using Spotify connect.
3. The HA player shows it's playing a from Spotify as expected.
4. The MA player still shows it's playing the radio stream.

I would expect that the player in MA would replicate status of the underlaying HA player.

[OzGav]

Why would you expect that? MA knows it is streaming a radio station to the Spotify Connect target.

[OzGav]

Or are you saying you then start playing something different via Spotify Connect?

[AThomsen]

Yes, let's say I start playing a BBC radio stream using Music Assistant. Then on my phone I open Spotify, connect to the player and start playing a Beatles album.

In Home Assistant, I'll have two media players: the original player from the LinkPlay integration and it's "shadow media player" from Music Assistant. The original player shows playing the Beatles track (Spotify) while the Music Assistant one still shows BBC.

[OzGav]

FYI there is now a WiiM player provider in MA if you can use that vice the HA integration that might help