2022.3: Select and play media

robi · March 4, 2022, 8:57am

Hi all!

I was able to fix the theme for the dropdowns but not for input numbers and input datetimes:

kép

Can anyone suggest the correct new variables for these?

tom_l · March 4, 2022, 9:03am

Input selects, numbers and datetimes all share the same theme variables.

mattdm · March 4, 2022, 9:18am

From what I can see, the change here is to remove some broken (in the API, not anything that can be done from the HA side) functionality. Is there more to it than that?

robi · March 4, 2022, 9:53am

The correct fix of the input controls for existing custom themes seems to be:

  input-idle-line-color: "var(--dark-primary-color)"
  input-hover-line-color: "var(--error-color)"
  input-disabled-line-color: "var(--disabled-text-color)"
  input-outlined-idle-border-color: "var(--disabled-text-color)"
  input-outlined-hover-border-color: "var(--disabled-text-color)"
  input-outlined-disabled-border-color: "var(--disabled-text-color)"
  input-fill-color: "var(--card-background-color)"
  input-disabled-fill-color: "var(--card-background-color)"
  input-ink-color: "var(--primary-text-color)"
  input-label-ink-color: "var(--secondary-text-color)"
  input-disabled-ink-color: "var(--disabled-text-color)"
  input-dropdown-icon-color: "var(--primary-text-color)"

wizake · March 4, 2022, 10:02am

It doesnt work for me either

The way I fixed it is to SSH into home assistant,
then run this command

docker exec -it homeassistant bash

after that run

pip install pyit600==0.3.2

(had to run pip install twice)

After HA restarted it worked again, but stopped working after today’s update to 2022.3.1 and had to do it all over again

tom_l · March 4, 2022, 10:05am

Yeah I just listed the variables. You have to work out what colours you want to make them.

Your settings don’t work for my theme. I use this:

  input-ink-color: 'var(--primary-text-color)'
  input-label-ink-color: 'var(--secondary-text-color)'
  input-disabled-ink-color: 'var(--secondary-text-color)'
  input-fill-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)
  input-dropdown-icon-color: 'var(--primary-text-color)'
  input-idle-line-color: 'var(--secondary-text-color)'
  input-hover-line-color: 'var(--primary-text-color)'

robi · March 4, 2022, 10:19am

Same problem here!

Please put back the real entity name in the Entity field!

maxym · March 4, 2022, 10:25am

in case you missed my question: How can I switch between applications using SamsungTV?
Changelog says this feature has been added but documentation lacks any details about it.

Eu66n · March 4, 2022, 10:51am

There is and is NOT working

tom_l · March 4, 2022, 11:05am

That is a third party integration not a core integration. Take the issue up with the third party developer.

Oh look, there’s already one open. https://github.com/jvitkauskas/homeassistant_salus/issues/29

petro · March 4, 2022, 11:20am

same way every media player does, through play media with media_content_id and media_content_type.

EDIT: Before you ask, you’re going to have to manually switch to these and look at the attributes to figure out what you need to set them as. Every media player is different in that regards.

Eu66n · March 4, 2022, 11:41am

OK, thanks.

maxym · March 4, 2022, 11:47am

Thanks for answer.
I was asking because every other SamsungTV integration I know requires manual configuration of list of possible applications. Devs were saying it’s not possible to collect app list from TV). Nice if it’s the opposite

petro · March 4, 2022, 11:49am

Every media player works the same way. The only way you can change things are through the play media or the change source service calls. If those service calls don’t accept your inputs, then it’s not possible. I’m sure every TV is different, especially seeing that these can have different os’s and apps.

Sergeantpup · March 4, 2022, 11:49am

I understand the difference now. Thanks

rabbadab · March 4, 2022, 11:54am

Agree I did use the TTS on the entity to communicate with my family.

And for me the new media player TTS with Google translate is not working. The Google home is triggered but no speaking is heard.

Will try when I have time to look into the logs

maxym · March 4, 2022, 11:54am

But it’s not about changing itself. The point is to change app in SamsungTV you have to know it’s ID (it’s fixed identifier given to each app).
While changelog says changing app is now available for SamsungTV, it doesn’t say where to get those IDs from. And what is more important, where to store them to make them available to select (considering using GUI).
As I said other integrations require to list those app in the integration configuration.
But docs of the official integration don’t mention how to work with that at all
Docs doesn’t even mention changing apps.

petro · March 4, 2022, 11:55am

Then suggest an edit to the documentation. You know the drill at this point.

maxym · March 4, 2022, 12:06pm

I do. But I have no knowledge about core SamsungTV component implementation.
This is why this is me who is asking for details. Once those details will be provided, I can update docs.

petro · March 4, 2022, 12:23pm

I guess you don’t understand what I’m saying:

The services are no different than any service and the media_player attributes are no different than any other media player.

So, turn on an app on the samsung TV.

Then look at what changes on your media player entity. If nothing changes… Turn on a show inside your samsung TV app.

Note the media player attributes. They will contain the information you are looking for.

Rinse and repeat for everything you want to do.

The populated attributes will tell you what services to use. I.e. source, media play, or play media