GStreamer / VLC component

I’m running Hass.io on Raspberry Pi and trying to setup a media player in order to output TTS over speakers. I’ve tried both Gstreamer and VLC, both of which are giving me errors so I must be doing something wrong.

For GStreamer I added this to configuration.yaml

media_player:
  - platform: gstreamer

But in the logs I see error:

2017-11-16 14:03:41 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.media_player] Error while setting up platform gstreamer
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/homeassistant/helpers/entity_component.py", line 170, in _async_setup_platform
    SLOW_SETUP_MAX_WAIT, loop=self.hass.loop)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/asyncio/tasks.py", line 352, in wait_for
    return fut.result()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/asyncio/futures.py", line 244, in result
    raise self._exception
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 55, in run
    result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/homeassistant/components/media_player/gstreamer.py", line 40, in setup_platform
    from gsp import GstreamerPlayer
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/gsp/__init__.py", line 11, in <module>
    import gi  # pylint: disable=import-error
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'gi'

With VLC, I added this to configuration.yaml:

media_player:
  - platform: vlc

But in the logs I see errors:

2017-11-16 14:42:12 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.media_player] Error while setting up platform vlc
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/homeassistant/helpers/entity_component.py", line 170, in _async_setup_platform
    SLOW_SETUP_MAX_WAIT, loop=self.hass.loop)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/asyncio/tasks.py", line 352, in wait_for
    return fut.result()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/asyncio/futures.py", line 244, in result
    raise self._exception
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 55, in run
    result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/homeassistant/components/media_player/vlc.py", line 39, in setup_platform
    config.get(CONF_ARGUMENTS))])
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/homeassistant/components/media_player/vlc.py", line 48, in __init__
    self._instance = vlc.Instance(arguments)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/vlc.py", line 1551, in __new__
    return libvlc_new(len(args), args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/vlc.py", line 3903, in libvlc_new
    ctypes.c_void_p, ctypes.c_int, ListPOINTER(ctypes.c_char_p))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/vlc.py", line 246, in _Cfunction
    raise NameError('no function %r' % (name,))
NameError: no function 'libvlc_new'

In both cases the errors suggest that the applications are not installed, but I was under the impression that the Hass.io components took care of installing the dependencies? Any advice would be much appreciated.

I got the same problem on GstreamerPlayer

I never did get GStreamer to work. In the end I used the Mopidy addon from bestlibre - https://github.com/bestlibre/hassio-addons

Works great.

I get this when I try to install mopidy:
Can’t install bestlibre/aarch64-mopidy:0.2.4 -> 404 Client Error: Not Found (“manifest for bestlibre/aarch64-mopidy:0.2.4 not found”).

Any idea what could be happening?

I have Ubuntu 21.04. HomeAssistant installed in Docker. My Python version is 3.9.4.
I want add gstreamer media player to my system. I follow doc and install additional packages, create symlink. but get Platform error media_player.gstreamer - No module named 'gi'