2022.3: Select and play media

[nickrout]

I have a separate set of dashboards for my cast devices, and you can set themes there.

[Sergeantpup]

Hello,

I’m a little late to the party on the play media functionality but I finally got deeper into it and I have a clarifying question. I understand you can basically make home assistant play anything you want. But what if I don’t know what I want it to be or I don’t want it to be the same thing?

Is there a way for me to randomize or shuffle the media selections? I read through the docs twice and I looked every where I could think of in the software. It’s perfectly understandable if that wasn’t a phase 1 item, I just want to make sure I’m not missing some obvious way to do this before I submit a feature request.

Given a trigger, I’d like to be able to randomize selections:
At dinner time, pick one of ‘these’ jazz playlists
When I come home, play one of ‘these’ radio stations
On Fridays, play one of ‘these’ albums

HA already has access to my SONOS playlists and favorites, I just can’t figure out how to shuffle playlists/stations for a selection.

Note: I’m not trying to shuffle every song between lists. Just trying to get it to where it’s not playing the same playlist every time the automation fires.

[RodgerDodger]

You could tinker around with that:

A little help with random playlist script

Hi I have the following script which is working ok. play_music: alias: 'Play Music' sequence: - service: remote.send_command data: entity_id: remote.living_room_ac_remote command: b64:"JgBmAJOVExMRFBE5EzcTEhI4ExMRFBEUERQSOBM3ExMRORITERQSFBE4EzcTOBI4EhMRFBITEjgTExEUERQSExI4EzcTNxMABfSWkhI4EgAMU5aSEzcTAAxTlpESORIADFOXkRM3EgANBQAA" - delay: '00:00:08' - service: spotcast.start data: entity_id: media_player.bose uri: 'spotify:playlist…

[Sergeantpup]

I did try something similar to this and I was getting errors so I figured I was way off base. It looks like I just had a few incorrect details. I’ll give it another shot with this example, thank you.

[Sergeantpup]

I got it. I was using the wrong trigger:

service: media_player.select_source
data:
  source: {{ ['Soft Jazz Sax', 'Disco Essentials', 'Ladies First: Female MCs'] | random}}
target:
  device_id: 44c16384ae6ac4d727a6f458c9ffbd85

[kitas]

Hi, can someone help me:

I cast with

action:
  - service: media_player.play_media
    target:
      entity_id: media_player.nesthub_google_kueche
    data:
      media_content_id: _default_
      media_content_type: lovelace

But what is the service to stop “play_media”? I need something like “Hey google, stop”…

Thx a lot

[parautenbach (Pieter Rautenbach)]

Media Player

[kitas]

sorry my fault.
media_player.turn_off is the answer.

I tried media_stop…

thx

[koldogut]

Same problem here, did you find any solution?

[YetAnotherDave]

No. I never found a solution. My understanding is that you need a Chrome/Google-cast compatible streaming device. LG uses WebOS and a slightly off-spec (from Chrome) casting protocol.

[Tombstone (Aaron Twomey)]

Is Spotify supposed to be in the media. For some reason I can not get this to work. I am a premium Spotify user.

[trullock]

@jonathanrob I have the same frigate media issue as you, did you solve it?

[hmoffatt (Hamish Moffatt)]

I didn’t find a solution yet. I’m still on 2022.6.

[heisenberg]

Just found this topic when trying to find out why I cannot play media in my LG TV, I guess the situation is still the same and no luck so far, right?

[YetAnotherDave]

Right. No fix, nor have I seen any discussion about a proposed fix.
… of course I can’t be certain

[AlfonsoMad (Alfonso Arrocha)]

Hey! Did you ever find out how to solve this issue?

[ovizii]

I’m wondering how to select a complete album or multiple items to play like show in the screenshot of this announcement:

I don’t get that, I only get to select a single file.