TIDAL Connect controller integration — path for a Control4 driver partner? (client oFk5Bq27TJa3Ik9y)

[Murraymint1981]

Hello TIDAL team,

I'm Ben Murray, founder of BKM Solutions, a UK home-automation company developing integration drivers for the Control4 platform (product line: Botive). I'd like to understand the certification path for a TIDAL Connect controller integration.

We want TIDAL subscribers to browse their own TIDAL library from within Control4 — on wall touchscreens, remotes and the Control4 app — and start playback on the TIDAL Connect-capable speakers they already own, with TIDAL's service driving the device. A certified controller, in the same category as Control4/Snap One, who I believe are already a partner. We are not proposing to build a player or to decode/redistribute audio — playback stays on the customer's own certified hardware, authenticated with their own TIDAL account via OAuth. We act only as a remote control.

I've registered a developer app (client oFk5Bq27TJa3Ik9y, "BKM Native Controller") and validated what's open to us: OAuth 2.0 PKCE, user profile, playlists, search and catalogue browse all work. The gap is playback — the relevant endpoints return 401 subStatus 6004 "Client does not have required access tier" and 403 subStatus 4034 "No content matching client capabilities", which I take to mean a certification/access tier we don't yet hold.

Could you tell me:

1. What's the process to become a certified TIDAL Connect controller / integration partner, and the technical + commercial requirements?
2. Is controller-side playback initiation (start/transfer playback to a customer-owned TIDAL Connect device) available to certified partners, and what tier/scopes unlock it?
3. Any certification or branding requirements we should design for from the outset?

Happy to complete technical certification and a partner agreement. TIDAL is the primary service across our customer base, so we want to do this properly.

Ben Murray — Founder, BKM Solutions — control4@bkmsolutions.co.uk — +44 7843 622154