Hi all,
I’ve bought a new soundbar, brought it into my network and HA directly informed me that a new integration would be available. Just a couple of clicks later, I had the soundbar as Google Cast entity visible in my Lovelace UI and a new sensor noting down, how long the soundbar is playing per day. So basically everything was fine and on the first day, the soundbar was switched on for ~2 hours.
The next day, there was no switched-on-time registered anymore and I checked the state using the developer tools and the state remained ‘off’, although the soundbar was playing.
I restarted the HA instance, I removed the Cast integration and repeated everything, but it does not work anymore.
Current state:
- after switching on the TV and the soundbar, Home Assistant does not recognize the new state
- the volume cannot be changed using HA (it is possible using the Google Home app)
It seems that only if something is actively coming from the HA itself, like a message to speak, it switches on (in HA) and immediately switches back off after the signal is gone.
If it is like that, I could accept that, but why has it been like I expected before? Any ideas?
Thanks,
Fridolin