The mini media player card looks really crisp, but at least the grouping is working perfectly for now. I just made some different input booleans to group and ungroup speakers to different setups. Works like a charm.
Question to the developer, would it be possible to make an option for group volume? This is one of the features from the mini media player that I do miss. Thanks!
Thatās great news, Tor. Iām excited to hear you are working on it. I was worried there was some inherent limitation in HEOS that made it impossible, so Iām relieved to know it will come eventually.
Currently I play my heos favorites (including radio stations), and spotify playlists using the lovelace interface (not the media browser) on a wall tablet. But I have to switch to the BubbleUPNP app to play the music on my DLNA server. Now that it all shows up in the media browser, Iām looking forward to ditching bubble and playing everything from the same interface.
Some good news: I noticed balloob made a PR on the official integration for Media Browser support. Iāve tested it and it works great, but right now it only supports local files and Radio Browser. I have it working for favorites with my tweak, but Iām having a hard time playing Spotify direct from the Media Browser. Not sure if it is supported by HEOS at all since even in the HEOS-app we need to open the Spotify-application. On the other hand, HEOS devices appears as spotify-connect devices in spotify, so it should be possible somehow.
Hello Bjorn,
How did you create the different input booleans? I have the same setup as you and also heos with the avr zone 1 and 2. Thanks!
Supporting multiple zones would be amazing. I own numerous AVRs and PrePros supporting HEOS, each with 2-3 zones. Right now, if I want to include my living room in the group, the speakers outside on Zone 2 also start playing.
Please provide the ability to control zones independently. 
You are able to do this already if you make a different mini media player card for each zone.
If you put the mini media card inside a conditional card you can make them only show up when the zone is playing music. 
Sorry for my late replyā¦
The setup is quite easy using scripts and automations. I created a few different items:
configration.yaml
media_player:
- platform: group
name: heos_keuken
entities:
- media_player.heos_keuken_l
- media_player.heos_keuken_r
- platform: group
name: heos_all
entities:
- media_player.heos_keuken_l
- media_player.heos_keuken_r
- media_player.heos_eetkamer
- media_player.heos_soundbartype or paste code here
input boolean:
muziek_keuken:
name: muziek_keuken
muziek_huis:
name: muziek_huis
automations:
- alias: muziek_keuken_aan
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: input_boolean.muziek_keuken
from: "off"
to: "on"
action:
- service: script.turn_on
entity_id: script.muziek_luisteren_keuken
- alias: muziek_keuken_uit
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: input_boolean.muziek_keuken
from: "on"
to: "off"
action:
- service: media_player.media_pause
data: {}
target:
entity_id: media_player.heos_keuken
- alias: muziek_overal_aan
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: input_boolean.muziek_huis
from: "off"
to: "on"
action:
- service: script.turn_on
entity_id: script.muziek_luisteren_overal
- alias: muziek_overal_uit
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: input_boolean.muziek_huis
from: "on"
to: "off"
action:
- service: media_player.media_pause
data: {}
target:
entity_id: media_player.heos_all
scripts:
unjoin_heos:
alias: unjoin_heos
sequence:
- service: media_player.unjoin
data:
entity_id: media_player.heos_keuken_r
- delay:
milliseconds: 500
- service: media_player.unjoin
data:
entity_id: media_player.heos_keuken_l
- delay:
milliseconds: 500
- service: media_player.unjoin
data:
entity_id: media_player.heos_eetkamer
- delay:
milliseconds: 500
- service: media_player.unjoin
data:
entity_id: media_player.heos_soundbar
## Join all heos together
join_heos_all:
alias: join_heos_all
sequence:
- service: media_player.join
data:
entity_id: media_player.heos_eetkamer
group_members:
- media_player.heos_soundbar
- media_player.heos_keuken_l
- media_player.heos_keuken_r
## Join heos keuken
join_heos_keuken:
alias: join_heos_keuken
sequence:
- service: media_player.join
data:
entity_id: media_player.heos_keuken_l
group_members:
- media_player.heos_keuken_r
muziek_luisteren_keuken:
alias: muziek_luisteren_keuken
sequence:
- service: script.turn_on
data:
entity_id: script.unjoin_heos
- delay:
seconds: 2
- service: script.turn_on
data:
entity_id: script.join_heos_keuken
- delay:
milliseconds: 500
- service: media_player.volume_set
data_template:
entity_id:
- media_player.heos_keuken
volume_level: 0.1
- delay:
milliseconds: 500
- service: media_player.media_play
entity_id: media_player.heos_keuken
muziek_luisteren_overal:
alias: muziek_luisteren_overal
sequence:
- service: script.turn_on
data:
entity_id: script.unjoin_heos
- delay:
seconds: 2
- service: script.turn_on
data:
entity_id: script.join_heos_all
- delay:
milliseconds: 500
- service: media_player.volume_set
data_template:
entity_id:
- media_player.heos_all
volume_level: 0.1
- delay:
milliseconds: 500
- service: media_player.media_play
entity_id: media_player.heos_all
And then I have quite a few different automations when I switch from one to another zone, or unjoin the soundbar when the tv is switched on etc. But planning on moving those to NodeRed.
Also, in my experience it worked best to unjoin them all first, and then create the new group.
I think this HA app is great.
Quick question -
When I select an album to stream via a DLNA server using the HEOS app I get an option to play the whole Album. There is a āPlay Albumā button that brings up a selection either Play Now/Play NOW add to queue/Play Next Add to end of queue or cancel
This works brilliantly within the app
However if I select the same DLNA server using Home assistant via the HEOS player I have integrated, I donāt see those choicesā¦ I just see the individual tracks only. I play one and it wonāt go onto the next
What am I doing wrong?
thanks
Iām not sure I understand. There appears to be only one HEOS āmedia_playerā entity per device. So for my Marantz AV7706 that has three zones, how do I control each zone independently like I can through the HEOS app?
The HEOS app doesnāt allow you to control each zone independently either. It allows you to select what music you want to play on your HEOS device, and then you can activate or deactivate different zones. But you canāt select that it plays A on zone 1 and plays B on zone 2.
However by combining the HEOS integration and the DenonAVR integration you can get quite some flexibility.
Does anyone have a DHT-S516S an the multiroom feature working? I have various Denon devices, works fine except for this type of speaker. I already created an issue at Grouping/Multiroom does not work for a Denon DHT-S516H Ā· Issue #712 Ā· kalkih/mini-media-player Ā· GitHub.
Basically Iām getting a System error -9 (12) when the DHT-S516S is a slave speaker. As a master itās working fine.
can u show us what u mean? as i using this two devices but not getting it to an good usable level
Hey there
The Grouping is really nice, but then using Media and control the volumes needs again some mediaplayers. Thats not really neat, but it works. Did anyone of you could match everything together?
My component
What do you exactly want to accomplish?
Reduce the 3 Mediaplayer to 1 if thats possible
So I have 1 Mediaplayer, where i can group everything, change the volume of all Speakers I grouped (like in the HeosApp) and when i go Browse Media, that i can choose from my Spotify.
At the moment thats not possible because
Spotify cannot be a mediaplayer when i want to Group the Speakers (Only heos speakers are allowed)
so therefore i cannot browse through my spotify playlist
Volume Control for all the grouped speakers.
This cannot be done, because it only regulates the master speakers volume. Same problem as with the spotifyplayer, i cannot use the āallmediaplayer Groupā entity because its not a real speaker.
So because i cannot use All mediaplyer Group and the spotify mediaplayer i need to have 3 Mediaplayers in lovelace
1x Mediaplayer for Grouping
1x Mediaplayer Spotify for browsing trough spotify playlist
1x Mediaplayer All Mediaplayer Group. to change the volume of all the Speakers.
You can reduce it to two cards if you include: sync_volume: true to your mini media player card that you use for grouping.
Spotify playlist I donāt know.
thanks for the tip!
Hi there,
Im pretty new to HA, but I hope someone can help me out.
The only thing i want is a media-player card for spotify (with the playlist button integrated)
which is turning on by default zone 2 of my denon (heos)
With the option of turning on zone 1.
The group function doesnt work with me (cant call the join service)
Im trying and reading for a lot of hours now, but cant figure it out.
I installed all the needed integrations (spotify/hacs/mini media player and some custom cards.)
Here is my code (i like to believe im closeā¦)
type: custom:stack-in-card
cards:
- type: custom:mini-media-player
entity: media_player.versterker_rob_denon_eetkamer
platform: heos
name: Muziek
hide:
power: true
icon: true
source: true
speaker_group:
platform: heos
show_group_count: true
entities:
- entity_id: media_player.versterker_rob_denon_eetkamer
name: Heos Eetkamer
- entity_id: media_player.versterker_rob_denon_tvkamer
name: Heos TV Kamer
artwork: material
volume_stateless: true
source: full
info: scroll
group: false
volume_step: '1'
card_mod:
style: |
div.mmp__bg {
/*opacity: 1;*/
transition: none !important;
}
div.cover {
transition: none !important;
}
div.cover-gradient {
transition: none !important;
}
div.mmp-player {
transition: none !important;
}
- type: media-control
entity: media_player.spotify_rob
title: title
card_mod:
style: |
div.media-info {
display: none;
}
div.top-info {
display: none;
}
div.controls {
display: true;
margin-left: -2px;
margin-right: -2px;
margin-top: -2px;
padding-top: 3px;
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.0);
text-shadow: 2px 2px 5px red;
border-radius: 6px;
}
div.background {
display: true;
opacity: 1;
transition: none;
}
div.no-img {
display: true;
/*opacity: 1;*/
transition: none;
}
div.image {
display: none;
opacity: 0.7;
transition: none;
}
div.color-gradient {
display: none;
/*opacity: 0.7;*/
transition: none;
}
div.color-block {
display: true;
/*opacity: 0.7;*/
/*background-color: black !important;*/
transition: none;
}
div.background.off {
display: none;
}
ha-icon-button {
display: true;
}
ha-card {
width: 100%; /*force a value of > 300px to keep the controls if needed*/
}
mwc-icon-button {
margin-bottom: 4px;
margin-right: 16px;
display: true;
position: absolute !important;
right: 15px ;
--mdc-icon-size: 45px !important;
}
div.title-controls {
padding: 0 0 3px;
}
.no-progress.player {
padding-bottom: 0px !important;
}
div.player {
/*color: inherit !important;*/
padding-top: 0px;
padding-bottom: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
}
div.off {
display: true;
}
I think to control the zones it is better to use the Denon AVR integration as heos has limited options for zone selection.
Hey there. How did you get the Cards for Spotify Radio etc there? that would be awesome if you could share the config! Thanks