Delayed media player state update when playing/pausing Plex

Hi,

I’m using the status of a media_player entity corresponding to the Plex player on my Fire Stick to trigger some lighting when playing/pausing content. Although it is working, I’m experiencing a ~5s delay between the moment the movie is paused on my TV and the moment the status of the media_player entity changes (and hence the moment when the lighting automation is triggered). Is there any way to reduce this delay ?

Thanks !

What HA release are you on? The last several releases have switched to a websocket-based update mechanism which provides immediate status changes. I’d recommend the latest release as it has addressed some issues found with the initial feature release.

I’m on 0.101.3, is it recent enough ?

If you’re using the Plex integration, then yes. I’d recommend upgrading to 0.103 as it’s more reliable.

Hello there!

I am searching for a solution of the exactly same problem - my integration is TTSing me the names of the objects it has found in the system. But I cannot get read of this 5s delay. Have you solved this issue since that time?