Problem
Similar to No media_position update
I use the homeassistant.casting entity to write some “smarter” skip buttons for watching YouTube (skip 10% forward, skip to 3mins, skip N seconds…);
However, the media_position (apparently by design) is only updated when the media is started or stopped; these means that often “relative” scripts operate off a stale time, which makes it kind of annoying.
I understand the argument that given HomeAssistant’s state-based system that not debouncing media_position can be problematic – most notably flooding logs in Recorder [Github]
However –
Request
I was hoping that maybe a service would be exposed to force a manual fresh to allow for “just-in-time” updates – i.e. when I press the button it would allow a limited or small window of calculations to occur, such that calculations done immediately after would be relatively correct – the service homeassistant.update_entity seems promisingly named but does nothing.