Casting my "music dashboard" - album art is replaced by ”generic image”

nikno · October 18, 2022, 6:46pm

I am playing around to create a dashboard with media control / albumart and so on. This dashboard I want to cast to my Google Nest 2 in my kitchen, triggered by that music is played, the casting works fine and also the controls…

…but the album art gets kind of boring (see image)…any idea why it is like this?

The album art looks fine when showing the dashboard in my browser.

nikno · October 20, 2022, 9:19pm

Plex album artwork not casting with rest of dashboard

opened 07:19PM - 12 Oct 22 UTC

FrankJaco

integration: plex

### The problem I have a dashboard dedicated to displaying the current music …that I am playing on various speakers. I cast the dashboard to one of my TV's with Chromecast (4K). Generally it works flawlessly. If I am playing pandora, the pandora album art, and meta data are displayed on my dashboard, and if the dashboard is casted to the TV everything is displayed properly. This holds true with other sources such as MusicAssistant, etc. When I play plex music on my speakers, my special dashboard displays correctly in home assistant. I get the album art and I get the other metadata. HOWEVER, when I cast the dashboard to the TV with Chromecast I get all of the metadata, but instead of the album art I get a picture of a Google Nest Hub instead of the album art. If I bypass Home Assistant completely, and simply cast Plex directly from my phone to the TV, I get the album art without an issue. Anyone have any clues??? ### What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue? 2022.10.3 ### What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core? _No response_ ### What type of installation are you running? Home Assistant OS ### Integration causing the issue google cast ? Plex? ### Link to integration documentation on our website _No response_ ### Diagnostics information _No response_ ### Example YAML snippet _No response_ ### Anything in the logs that might be useful for us? ```txt Sorry, I am not seeing anything relevant. ``` ### Additional information _No response_

grotteru · October 24, 2022, 5:47pm

I have the exact same problem. Added a comment in the Issue. I think its a problem with the Google cast integration and not the Plex integration.

grotteru · January 23, 2023, 12:12pm

@nikno, have you found a way to get around this problem? There seems to be no development.

nikno · January 26, 2023, 10:50am

I have not played around with it that much lately - but did a try just now as below.

Here is a mix of 2 different players - the ones to the left are both of type custom:mini-media-player (I think I got from HACS) while the one to the right is “the normal” type media-control (!), which then shows some artwork…

grotteru · January 27, 2023, 8:52am

I have figured out that this has something to do with the reference (url) to the artwork. I am using the custom-sonos-card and this card uses the entity_picture attribute from the media_player entity to get the artwork.

This URL is HA local adress. I made a fork of the custom-sonos-card where i added my local HA IP adress as a prefix to the enity_picture url and this made the nesthub show the artwork.

If the enity_picture url would be http://[HA-IP]:8123[entity_picure_url_as_of_now] it should work on the nesthub.

I will try the normal media-control card!

maty12334 · October 22, 2023, 3:12am

Did this end up working?

maty12334 · October 22, 2023, 3:12am

Any fix???

DieBreuers · October 14, 2024, 3:08pm

Hi, @ all.
Ive got the same issue.
Ive tried to figure out where I can make a change in the Code.
But I havent found it. Can Some one give me a Tipp? or the code File ?
Tanks

PunxsutawneyPhil · October 14, 2024, 3:41pm

Use artworkHostname in the sonos card.
For instance:

type: custom:sonos-card
artworkHostname: http://192.168.0.59:8123

PunxaPhil

DieBreuers · October 14, 2024, 5:49pm

Thanks for the info.
Ive looked at the custom-songs-card.js but i can’t find a right place to fit it in.
Sorry for circumstances. In wich file and where i can put my IP in?
When i put it in the Code Editor in Dashboard. I can see that the placeholder pic changes to another one. And i put in the IP Adress my VM.

PunxsutawneyPhil · October 14, 2024, 6:18pm

file??
You just supply it in the card configuration.

Create a dashboard in Home Assistant
Add the Sonos Card to the dashboard
Edit the configuration of the card according to the above (or use the visual editor for the card, you’ll find artworkHostname under the advanced tab).

nikno · October 15, 2024, 7:20am

@PunxsutawneyPhil Thanks!

I added the ip address of my HA. Used both the method by yaml editing the Sonos Card and by setting it in the Advanced tab.

When I do it the artwork disappears from the browser (see below). I have NOT tried casting it yet to my Google hub.

I tried with my internal ip address (http://192.168.1.96:8123), the local HA URL (http://xxx.local:8123) and my external duckdns https one…