iTunes Switches for AirPlay or Playlists

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Hi all, if anyone is interested, I have made some little buttons in lovelace using the custom button card that change the playlist to the one listed on the button. Maybe it will save some of you some time to do the same. There’s probably a cleaner way to do this with the rest_command, but this worked.

So first I defined the switches in my configuration.yaml pretty much as described above, except I made both toggle on and toggle off assigned to turn the playlist on. If I want a different playlist, I will just click that button, so the playlist button should always assign the chosen playlist regardless of state.

switch:
  - platform: command_line
    switches:
      mix:
        friendly_name: Mix
        command_on: "curl -X PUT http://x.x.x.x:8181/playlists/a-45-star/play"
        command_off: "curl -X PUT http://x.x.x.x:8181/playlists/a-45-star/play"
  - platform: command_line
    switches:
      jazz:
        friendly_name: Jazz
        command_on: "curl -X PUT http://x.x.x.x:8181/playlists/best-jazz/play"
        command_off: "curl -X PUT http://x.x.x.x:8181/playlists/best-jazz/play"
  - platform: command_line
    switches:
      rock:
        friendly_name: Rock
        command_on: "curl -X PUT http://x.x.x.x:8181/playlists/best-rock/play"
        command_off: "curl -X PUT http://x.x.x.x:8181/playlists/best-rock/play"
  - platform: command_line
    switches:
      pop:
        friendly_name: Pop
        command_on: "curl -X PUT http://x.x.x.x:8181/playlists/best-pop/play"
        command_off: "curl -X PUT http://x.x.x.x:8181/playlists/best-pop/play"

Then in ui-lovelace.yaml I defined the buttons as below (4 simple small text buttons in a row, but much more fancy ones are possible. I will probably make mine nicer someday)

buttons

  - type: horizontal-stack
    cards:
    - type: "custom:button-card"
      name: Mix
      action: service
      service:
        domain: switch
        action: toggle
        data:
          entity_id: switch.mix
    - type: "custom:button-card"
      name: Jazz
      action: service
      service:
        domain: switch
        action: toggle
        data:
          entity_id: switch.jazz
    - type: "custom:button-card"
      name: Rock
      action: service
      service:
        domain: switch
        action: toggle
        data:
          entity_id: switch.rock
    - type: "custom:button-card"
      name: Pop
      action: service
      service:
        domain: switch
        action: toggle
        data:
          entity_id: switch.pop
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