Start Spotify Radio with Shortcut

Goal:

I run Spotify on an Android streaming box and I wanted to start a radio station with a shortcut on my keyboard.

What you need:

• Android TV box (e.g. CR11S)
• Keyboard (e.g. Logitech K400)
• Apps:
• Spotify
• Tasker
• AutoInput (Tasker Plugin)
• External Keyboard Helper
• Optional: AutoVoice

How it is done:

• Create the tasks in Tasker to start Spotify, wait a bit, launch AutoInput and then go through the click actions to start the radio station you would like to have. You can download and import this "SpotifyPlay.xml" as an example. IMPORTANT: Please be aware that if Spotify changes the UI of there app, the click actions need to be adapted. The guided mode in AutoInput will help you there. Feel free to improve the xml and let me know.
• In External Keyboard Helper first define the "application shortcuts", e.g. A0. Then customize your keyboard mappings. Add a new key mapping - press e.g. F1 on your keyboard and then type in A0 in the "normal" field. That should do the trick.
• You could also use AutoVoice to trigger starting Spotify with an "OK Google" command.

You can extend the solution e.g. by first switching on your AV receiver and then start the Spotify Playlist. I have an Onkyo TX-NR626 - with its remote app and AutoInput it is fairly easy to configure it. You only need to wait until the app is fully loaded before going through the click actions. To check if the app is loaded you could use the UI query feature of AutoInput.