Hi All,
My mpd TTS notification mediaplayer speaks over the top of playing media on other media players. I’m trying to make a neat/efficient solution to pause media that is playing, and resume when the notification finishes. I’ve got a pair of automations that work when attached to a singular other media player. Now i’d like to expand it to include any/all media players in the house that are on.
here are my current automations:
- alias: 'tts_notification_music_pause'
trigger:
- platform: event
event_type: automation_triggered
event_data:
name: notify_interrupt_test
condition:
condition: state
entity_id: media_player.top_room
state: 'playing'
action:
- service: media_player.media_pause
entity_id: media_player.top_room
- alias: 'tts_notification_music_resume'
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: media_player.mpd_notify
to: 'off'
condition:
condition: state
entity_id: media_player.top_room
state: 'paused'
action:
- service: media_player.media_play
entity_id: media_player.top_room
I’m wondering if there is a way to use templating or wildcards to have:
-
the condition entity id equivalent to " all playing media players except
media_player.mpd_notify -
the action resume media playback on the respective players - again excluding the media_player.mpd_notify.
ultimately i would also like the the first automation’s trigger to be similar - all automations starting ‘automation.notification…’ should trigger it
i’ve seen some examples here of similar templating, but only to group together sensors or battery levels, nothing like this.
Any insight would be very much valued