Hello
I have Jellyfin and Home Automation set up. I can select an audio device in Home assistant, click Browse media, and play a Jellyfin album, all good. But if i open the Media menu in Home Assistant, select Jellyfin, select an album, then choose an audio device (or group), and press play, it never works. Pretty much nothing happens. It does not matter what album I choose, or what device I choose.
Is there something I need to do to get that to work? Home Assistant is the latest version, running on HASIO on a Raspberry Pi.
Thanks
I think I understand what is going on. The Home Automation integration with Jellyfin is not actually using Jellyfin features, it seems to be just using Jellyfin as an MP3 source. Most of my albums are not in a format that can be played directly on the devices, and Jellyfin handles this. But initiating the play action from Home Assistant Jellyfin integration does not request jellyfin to play it on the device, with transcoding. It is a pitty, I would like to have Home Automation triggers to play Jellyfin media on the audio devices.
I maybe having same issue.
Did you figure out how to make jellyfin play music through HA ?
Sort of. It is not easy. I manually copied the Stream URL for each song. I put the long random Song ID value from the URL for each song into an array in a Node Red Function Node, put the api_key in a safe space in Node Red, then used the function node to create an array of those songs’ full stream URL.
Then I created Node Red workflow to have a bluetooth button, when I push it, then a random song is played from that array. It watches for the speaker to go idle, and then starts another random stream. Pressing the bluetooth button again stops the play. Not pretty but it works. I limited it only to some coding music for my study. That option is not workable for a large number of songs on a large number of speakers.
Likely I could write some code to pull song IDs from the database for a specific album, but I have not spent the time.
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