I don’t know if this would be possible, I have not been able to find an answer for it. Here’s my problem: I’m building a jukebox for the kids using RFID cards to play music. I have ripped all my CDs into my NAS, but I have hundreds of songs. I don’t want to set up several hundred automations, one…

I am unaware of a way to read a text file in Home Assistant like you describe, but it could likely be done in Node Red.

Good point, thanks. I haven’t used NodeRed in a while, but if I can’t find a clean HA solution, I might have to look at NodeRed again.

A script can accept data, so when you scan a card an automation calls a script passes the title along. Cards would need the title or a keyword that ties it to the song. I have no idea how to actually play music, I don’t do that, but I’m guessing Music Assistant or some other player would finish tha…

Thanks, I got the music playing part working, I just don’t want to repeat the automation part for each song.

[image] Scripts Instructions on how to setup scripts within Home Assistant. I also use them in my config in a few places and my script blueprints… GitHub - SirGoodenough/Home-Assistant-Config: My HA Configuration... This is what I run for production in my ho…

[image] rarroyo: Is there a way to put all the RFID id’s and song titles into a text file or database There’s the file integration - you would need to configure your data as JSON: [image] File Instructions on how to integrate sensors which read from files into Home Assistant. …

The file integration only reads the last line of the file every time the file is changed. It won’t grab a whole file. The most simple native-HA solution is to maintain the database as a variable a script: sequence: - variables: song_database: 13648: "James Gang - Funk #49" …

You could use a combination of the command line integration and HAOS jq command to read a JSON file. Some examples of this being done here Anyway of reading JSON from config directory in Core - #23 by simonh4

Thanks, this looks interesting. You’re saying basically to keep the data as a list inside the script, right? How would I loop through the list to read the IDs? I would like to keep everything native, since I already have a big HA installation, and I don’t want to add more bloat that I have to.

[image] rarroyo: How would I loop through the list to read the IDs? You don’t need to, just use the id in a template as part of your medial player invocation. action: media_player.play_media target: entity_id: media_player.chromecast data: media_content_type: music media_content_id: " …

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