With this card you are not solely dependant on the Sonos favorites, but you can also use anything that is available as media in Home Assistant. So as long as you have it there, it should be available in this card.
Firstly, let me say this is the best Media player for HA that Iâve tested so far - kudos to Phil for the effort and time he has put in to it, and his responsiveness to questions. Having said that, I have a couple of really dumb beginner questions:
Does this support the capability to play ALL the songs in a Playlist? (I canât see the use of any media player that simply plays one track.)
Any chance of placing a limit on displayed media sources, or perhaps make the window that displays the media sources scrollable?
My use case is a wall-mounted tablet to run HA that definitely, 100% has to be user friendly (i.e. wife-proof). The only music requirement for me is to select a given playlist, then play all the songs in that list, usually on every Sonos speaker in the house. (I could do this with iTunes/AirPlay, but prefer it to be part of the HA integration.)
Item #2 (the scroll) works perfectly. Many thanks!
For Item #1, I must be doing something REALLY stupid. I have multiple playlists (e.g. Dire Straits, ELO, etc.). Each of these contains multiple tracks. When I select a playlist, the track list is displayed - so far, so good. But, at this point, how do I get it to play all the tracks in that list? Selecting the first track, for example, will only play that and nothing else. I guess Iâm missing something obvious.
You are right.
The favorites act like I say though, just click on the name and playlist starts playing.
When navigating into them though, you need to click on the play icon in the top left corner of the media browser.
Clicking on the Play icon (top left) without selecting a track gives me a brief error message: âFailed to call media_player/play_media. âNoneTypeâ object has no attribute âget_uriââ and does nothing.
Selecting a track then clicking on the play icon just plays that track and nothing else.
I just searched this thread and it looks like a while back someone else had asked for search. Was the limitation in Home Assistant or were you not sure how to access the Sonos Search portion of the API? If it was related to Sonos they do have some documentaiton on how to perform a search. https://developer.sonos.com/reference/sonos-music-api/search/
Just hoping this could get added to the card if possible.
Thanks!
Edit:
Question no longer relevant but leaving to potentially help somebody that has the same question
Installed HACS via instructions here: Download | HACS
Hi all, I am a very new user and have allot to learn. My apologises if what I ask is silly.
Kindly explain how I can install this card as I cannot locate it in the store:
When I try to follow the manual instructions âDownload the resources, as you would do with all other modules.â i am also lost. I have no idea what to download from which source
just got sonos & the sonos card setup on my ha system. seems to be working but i donât understand something fundamental. how do i populate music, radio stations, etc. into the media browser? mine is empty and i canât find any way to get stuff in there.