Insignia w/ Google Assistant Stereo pair shows up as two devices, neither show their playing status

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I have two Insignia-made Google Assistant enabled speakers (homie1 and homie2) that I have used the Home app to merge into a stereo pair.

Even though they’re paired, in HA they appear as two separate media player entities instead of one - media_player.homie1 and media_player.homie2. Some things appear to work fine (I can use volume_set targeting the homie1, for example, and that’s fine) but when music is playing, both entities show their states as either off or idle, depending on when I last interacted with them. I wanted to make some automations based on when/if music is playing, but don’t know how I can do that if I can’t see their actual playing status.

Is this something unique to the Insignias or all google speaker pairs? Any thoughts on how I can determine their status?

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Hi there!

I’m very new to all this Home Assistant stuff

I have one Insignia-made Google Assistant speaker, which is connected to the Google Home app. You’ve mentioned that you connected them to HA, but I cannot find any information in Google. Can you please tell me how did you connected the Insignia speakers to Home Assistant?

Thank you very much!