Basic setup: Musiccast / config.yaml

Configuration
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Hi all,
I am trying to setup my Musiccast components in config.yaml and to start i.e. a musiccast component via motion sensor.

Components are consisting of
Receiver RX-V685
Musiccast WX-021 - Kitchen
Musiccast WX-021 - Mobile Box

My config for 1 Musiccast Component looks like this in the config.yaml:

media_player:
  - platform: yamaha_musiccast
    host: 192.168.1.84
    port: 5005

The result is:

  1. The media player ‘kitchen_(main)’ is available
  2. I can start the Musiccast component via Service
  3. I can set volume

Q1: Why is the Musiccast Component not available as Entity? I do not really understand why I only can i.e. turn the component on via a service call? Not handled i.e. like a on/off plug?

Q2: Where can I assign the names for the components? i.e. ‘kitchen_(main)’ is assigned by HA as it seems.

via


I realize that only
  • powering on/off
  • mute
  • volume control
  • source selection
    are available.

Q3: Did anyone manage to start a mp3 file from the NAS ?

Regards,
Joerg

2

You mean, there is no media-control present on the Lovelace UI? Maybe you disabled automated Lovelace handling and need to add it by hand? Click the upper right of your dashboard and select “Edit Dashboard”.

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Then in the lower right, click on “Add Card” …

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… select card type “Media Control” and configure it for the appropriate media_player entity

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3

You have an entity media_player.xxx

Go to Developer Tools → States, look for your media_player.xxx entity, click on it and then on the cog wheel, now you can change the entity_id.

That’s not possible with musiccast.

4

Unfortunately it says, that the entity doesn’t have a unique id.
I have to do it via YAML…

I tried this:

media_player:
  - platform: yamaha_musiccast
    entity_id: kueche1
    host: 192.168.1.84
    port: 5005

but the entity_id gives a configuration fault.

5

Ah I see, then you can only change it by changing the name of your devices in the device itself.

E.g. I called one of my musiccast receiver “Musik Wohnzimmer”, which now has the entity_id media_player.musik_wohnzimmer

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Ok, dann mache ich es auch so. :slight_smile:
(I will do it the same)

I thought I can get rid of the ‘(main)’.
It is shown on both entities.

Thanks anyway :slight_smile:
Greets from Hamburg

7

No. If you enable the advanced mode (“Erweiteter Modus”) on you profile page, then you will get the “Customizations” entry in the “Configuration” menu (Einstellungen → Anpassungen bei deutscher Sprache).

You can easily customize entity display names there. Only thing you need to do in YAML is to enable the use of customizations.

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8

Thanks , that worked.