Add Search, Favorites and Recent to Radio Browser

Feature Requests
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Like most things, read the docs Radio Browser - Home Assistant

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Thanks for your “kind” and “useful” answer, but there is nothing in that page that tell us how to search for a specific radio station.

For anyone that also search for a quick answer, you can go to the site : https://www.radio-browser.info/
And at the present time, there is a search input form at the top right of their site. Or by many other menu at the top also.

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Right on the doc page I pointed to there is a link to the page you pointed to, thereby answering your question “what is their web page?”. My answer also pointed out to you and others that the answers are often in the docs that no one seems to read.

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Were did you figure out what the id of the media-source was?
I would like to get it for Q-Music in Belgium :smiley:

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For example create an automation for “play media” . After selecting the station you can switch to yaml mode and pick the ID.

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Found a faster way: :smiley:

when you go to the website https://www.radio-browser.info and search for your favorit station, you click on the version you want to use and then the ID is in the URL :stuck_out_tongue:

https://www.radio-browser.info/history/9612651b-0601-11e8-ae97-52543be04c81
9612651b-0601-11e8-ae97-52543be04c81

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I would like to make a ‘radio’ page in my dashboard, where I can pick my audio source’s’ and choose radio station with the help of buttons with the logo’s of those stations. Is this possible atm?

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Hey there

I’m a newb in coding. Any possibility to extend this script and chose the mediaplayer? I have a multiroom system and i dont want to add 2,3 Icons for every speaker

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Jup The whole radio station effort is useless until we have a search function and a favorites folder. I’m sorry to say. Worse is that I only can complain because I am to stupid to program it myself.

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I totally agree search and favorite functions are needed. Or, at least, please tell us in the doc how to create a dashboard with our favorite stations. Otherwise, it’s useless.

Thanks.

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I easily configured two radio buttons, following the explanations of moirusty and dictus.jurgen

I wanted to add some screenshoots for the most unexperienced users, but its limited for new users, so there is only one.

I’ll explain how to do the whole process:

  1. Create a button card.
  2. Fill the following fields, on the dialog-box.
  • Entity: set the device where you want to cast the radio.
  • In “Tap Action” set “Call Service”.
  • In Service set “Media player: Play media” (pay attention because there is another one called “Media player: Play” and it does not work).
  1. Press the “SHOW CODE EDITOR” button (left-down)
  2. Replace the “data: {}” field as shown by moirusty. Modify to code of the radio-station, after finding the appropiate code as explained by dictus.jurgen
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This is a must have feature instead of wasting minutrs finding ur station everytime

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21

just found this: GitHub - lukx/home-assistant-jukebox: Home-Assistant Radio Station and Stream Selector Card

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I agree that the features in the original post are needed to make the Radio Browser useful. The card recommended by rbric looked as if it might give a workaround but, it seems, is not recommended for HAOS and triggers warnings about using it there.

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Where do you see this warning?

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It doesn’t specify HAOS but Download | HACS talks about other versions (Supervised, Container and Core) and adds If you are not sure what type of Home Assistant you are using, then you should probably not use HACS (or any other custom integration)

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He is just saying that HACS is not for simpletons. You need to be able to read and follow instructions.

Also the instructions are there for haos.

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For the radio browser, perhaps I missed it but I cannot for the life of me find a search box. I am trying to play a radio called Frisky Deep (not Frisky, nor Frisky Chill - but Frisky Deep).

WOuld it be possible to add a search box please so I can find instantly what am looking for. Its amusing going through the counties pages and music genres - and still not finding what am looking for.

Please, my kingdom for an autocomplete radio station search box !

Thanks,
DS

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Make your favorite buttons

https://rouwette.com/radio-browser/

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It is frustrating to find a radio station in the media browser even though it is sorted alphabetically. Each folders contain too many items. If we know the radio station we desire to listen to, perhaps it should be searchable with a search bar?

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