2022.3: Select and play media

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Ok, so this is the single best added feature over the span of 2 HA products. Itā€™s almost the holly grail for my media casting desires.

Iā€™ve waited almost 5 years, across 2 products (HomeSeer and now Home Assistant) for an easy to use method to cast playlists (Plex in this case) via an automation.

THANK YOU to those who put in the time and effort to make this happen, Iā€™m sure it wasnā€™t easy.

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for me the solution was to remove the old light integration and deinstall the addon in HACS

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PR to add Squeezebox https://github.com/home-assistant/core/pull/67561

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Plying Sonos favorites via new playmedia-selection in automations and scripts is working good.

But I wonder, why the old way is not working anymore. Didnā€™t see any deprecation warnings.

  - service: media_player.select_source
    data:
      source: Lieder
    target:
      entity_id: media_player.sonos_abc

Is it deprecated? Did I miss an info?

Sonos Lieder im Abc: Error executing script. Error for call_service at pos 3: Error calling SonosMediaPlayerEntity.select_source on media_player.sonos_abc: HTTPConnectionPool(host='xx.xx.xx.xx', port=yy): Read timed out. (read timeout=9.5)
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PR to add media source support to HeOS https://github.com/home-assistant/core/pull/67562

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And make the images much smaller please! But besides that I like it very much. Already implemented some automations to play radio stations.

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Got the same issue with the xiaomi vacuum card.
If you got any idea let me know :slight_smile:

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I have observed it too.
Do you have a link to the issue so I can follow up ?

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You will see the author has promised a PR

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Logs? Issue posted?

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There was another report up the thread but it was in relation to shelly4hass.

As you provide no logs it is impossible to help.

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The problem was that it was sending the internal URL to the mini, which uses Googleā€™s DNS servers (with no option to override). Solution was to update configurationā€™s internal URL to use the local IP address.

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Thanks for your help

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Just curious, how do I find out what support was added for Ecobee thermostats in HomeKit integration? I tried to find some sort of update notes but have failed so far.

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Wow I didnā€™t even post that github issue you requested yet. Thanks.

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You should set up the MJPEG IP Camera integration and itā€™s going to be working again (except camera sensors)

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could this be what browser_mod media_player needs too? considering https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/67473

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Thereā€™s also a report of Homepod (Homekit) and Denon media players not being included as sources.

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/2022-3-how-to-use-text-to-speech-on-media-device/398293

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Was looking for a while for an affordable local WiFi light strip. After frenckā€™s advertisement on the release party I picked up one from WiZ. Good product and great new integration. Thanks :slight_smile:

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Same here. I dont see anything new in my climate entity, but might just be missing something,