I noticed that when I get a notification (from a JS rule) from the Android openHAB app while playing Spotify, the music (or podcast) is paused, even though my phone is on ‘do not disturb’.
Even stranger: the music doesn’t resume after the notification sound; I need to manually press play again…
I don’t know which information about my phone or Android might be useful here?
The make/model and Android version are usually good starting points.
Do you mean that the notification still appears even though you’re on DND? Or that you don’t see/hear the notification (due to DND being enabled), but Spotify stops anyway?
By default, DND blocks pretty much any sound/notification, but you can usually set it to ignore some things (alarms, apps, types of sounds). DND also blocks media audio (e.g. Spotify) unless it’s connected to a Bluetooth speaker or wired headphones.
You need to isolate where the problem is by testing various scenarios:
Most likely, it’s something specific to your phone.
I did some more testing, and it isn’t the notification which stops Spotify. It’s a Sonos item: Sonos binding - change playlist stops Spotify on phone.
This didn’t stop Spotify, which made me look in another direction.
But I didn’t know that test message thing existed. Nice find!
Most people don’t learn about it until they have problems with notifications.