Google Music in HA -- Now as a media player!

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@spcedrgn

I was curious though, since I’m casting this to a TV, and it only just shows “Default Media Receiver” instead of the song data, is there any way/plan to be able to mirror the song data from the gmusic_player instance to the playing chromecast?

@spcedrgn @slipx06

I came across this python script by @rodpayne that you can combine with an automation to help do this. Trying to keep the “Default Media Receiver” synced up is tricky but this should provide a good starting point.

#==================================================================================================
#  python_scripts/set_state.py 
#==================================================================================================

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Set the state or other attributes for the entity specified in the Automation Action
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

inputEntity = data.get('entity_id')
if inputEntity is None:
    logger.warning("===== entity_id is required if you want to set something.")
else:    
    inputStateObject = hass.states.get(inputEntity)
    inputState = inputStateObject.state
    inputAttributesObject = inputStateObject.attributes.copy()

    for item in data:
        newAttribute = data.get(item)
        logger.debug("===== item = {0}; value = {1}".format(item,newAttribute))
        if item == 'entity_id':
            continue            # already handled
        elif item == 'state':
            inputState = newAttribute
        else:
            inputAttributesObject[item] = newAttribute
        
    hass.states.set(inputEntity, inputState, inputAttributesObject)

And for the automation.

#==================================================================================================
#  packages/gmusic_player/sync_default_receiver.yaml 
#==================================================================================================
automation:
  - alias: 'gmusic_sync_to_speakers'
    hide_entity: True
    trigger:
      platform: template
      value_template: "{{ is_state('sensor.gmusic_receiver', 'playing') }}"
      for:
        seconds: 2
    action:
      - service: python_script.set_state
        data_template:
          entity_id: "{{ state_attr('media_player.gmusic_player', '_player_id') }}"
          entity_picture: "{{ state_attr('media_player.gmusic_player', 'entity_picture') }}"
          media_title: "{{ state_attr('media_player.gmusic_player', 'media_title') }}"