An easier way to integrate bidirectional sliders in state cards

Feature Requests
1

I’m a huge fan of Homeassistant but one thing really annoys me: The handling of sliders in state cards.

Example:
I have several media players. If I want to change the volume I click on the corresponding media player, a volume slider appears and I am able to control volume.

If I want to have a bidirectional slider in a state card with exactly that functionality I need to:

  • create input slider
  • create automation to set volume on media player based on slider
  • create automation to display volume in slider based on media player

This is no problem at all but it’s getting messy If you’ve got a lot of media players. Furthermore it’s unnecessarily complicated because as stated above a functional volume slider already exists in the media player component when you click on it. It would be great If you could just integrated this volume slider into a state card without having to create automations and sliders. Thinking further same could be used for controlling light intensity of bulbs, fan speeds, etc. pp.

2

For lights, this can be achieved in the UI with the custom-ui addition

Which has options to display lights that support dimming as sliders in the UI. Could be adapted for media_players?

3

I’ve already looked into this. Sliders seems to be only available for lights if I got it right.