Chromecast "entity_picture: null" when casting from plex?

Braedz · June 14, 2021, 2:32pm

Hi there,

I have Chromecast Ultra that we often stream to from our phones using plex.
When we do this, the chrome cast integration doesn’t show an entity_picture, however if we stream from something like youtube it will.

I was wondering if anyone knows if it is possible to set the “entity_picture” when casting from plex?
I have included an example of what I am talking about below:

media_content_id: 933
media_content_type: tvshow
player_source: session
friendly_name: Plex (Plex Cast - Chromecast)
entity_picture: >-
  /api/media_player_proxy/media_player.living_room_plex?token=e5a0e05ae39b52994323d9cba20bda88741454b6814b60d4b235de5f0b30c103&cache=f96bfdfa962bc20a
supported_features: 131584

media_content_id: /library/metadata/933
media_content_type: movie
app_id: 9AC194DC
app_name: Plex
entity_picture_local: null
friendly_name: Living Room TV
supported_features: 152463

mavrik132 · January 19, 2022, 2:32am

Fairly new user here. I’m having the same problem.

Did you ever find a solution for this?

michaelkrtikos · February 20, 2022, 9:33pm

Hey there Braedz,

I am having exactly the same problem. When i cast from youtube it works and i can see the thumbnail of the video but when i cast from Plex it remains blank.

Did you ever find a solution to this? I would like to use Color Extractor based on the picture_entity but i am unable to do so…

Thanks for letting me know
M

Braedz · February 22, 2022, 1:02am

Hi both,

No I never found a solution to this, so I gave up

JermaNoiD · November 22, 2023, 6:07am

I have the same issue. I’m curious if this works normally for anybody. So I can figure out if this is a Plex problem, or a configuration problem.

Jakkumn · December 30, 2023, 1:38am

Been looking into this myself.
I think it is related to the plex media player not having a property declared to fill that role. In theory, it should either generate a call using the plex image proxy /api/plex_image_proxy/{server_id}/{media_content_id}
or using the plex api. I saw the above being used in the media browser code when navigating via the hass ui.

Here are how a bunch of the other media players have that field set, search this in git: repo:home-assistant/core entity_picture path:/^homeassistant\/components\//

I am going to see if I can get a working version together and submit a PR in the new year.

Relevant code:

github.com

home-assistant/core/blob/f3ecec9c44ccd537664e41b56d0938136dcb537e/homeassistant/components/plex/media_player.py

"""Support to interface with the Plex API."""
from __future__ import annotations

from collections.abc import Callable
from functools import wraps
import logging
from typing import Any, Concatenate, ParamSpec, TypeVar, cast

import plexapi.exceptions
import requests.exceptions

from homeassistant.components.media_player import (
    DOMAIN as MP_DOMAIN,
    BrowseMedia,
    MediaPlayerEntity,
    MediaPlayerEntityFeature,
    MediaPlayerState,
    MediaType,
)
from homeassistant.config_entries import ConfigEntry

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Maxi1134 · February 16, 2024, 6:46pm

Have you ever had a chance to work on this?

I currently use a “template media player” custom integration and this code to achieve this: Home-Assistant-Config/includes/template_media_player.yaml at e2bbeb076dbf8bee7cae17f6263b20dbc3ab41fc · maxi1134/Home-Assistant-Config · GitHub

But would love a native function! I can pay some coffees.

tomplums · June 1, 2024, 8:51am

I’m running into this issue in the last few days. Taken a while to figure out what’s hapening, and now this thread has confirmed it. @Jakkumn did you manage to find time to submit the fix?