LinkPlay Integration

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I decided to radically modify a few things here&there in the code for myself, but didn’t want to mess with the original repo and pull requests one by one, so I’ve created my own fork:

Requires Home Assistant 0.110 or above.

A few new features:

  • Configurable input sources list, to match choices in HA with the pyhsical inputs available on each device
  • Configurable Icecast / Shoutcast webradio streams as additional input sources
  • Retrieval of current playing content metadata from Icecast / Shoutcast webradio streams and filenames on directly attached USB sticks, Tidal, Dezzer
  • Retrieval of coverart from last.fm service based on current playing content metadata from icecast or filenames
  • Multirooom in both WiFi-Direct and Router mode, using Sonos-like ‘join’ and ‘unjoin’ service calls.
  • Recall of music presets stored on the device
  • Snapshot and restore state of the player for smooth usage with TTS or alerts
  • Browsing and playing media files from the directly attached USB sticks through Lovelace UI
  • Linkplay-chipset specific commands through HA service calls
media_player:
    - platform: linkplay
      host: 192.168.1.11
      name: Sound Room1
      icecast_metadata: 'StationNameSongTitle'
      multiroom_wifidirect: False
      sources: 
        {
          'optical': 'TV sound', 
          'line-in': 'Radio tuner', 
          'bluetooth': 'Bluetooth',
          'udisk': 'USB stick'
          'http://94.199.183.186:8000/jazzy-soul.mp3': 'Jazzy Soul',
        }

    - platform: linkplay
      host: 192.168.1.12
      name: Sound Room2
      icecast_metadata: 'Off'  # valid values: 'Off', 'StationName', 'StationNameSongTitle'
      sources: {}

Note that this is heavily work in progress. Also this is not backwards-compatible with the previous linkplay integration. Read the documentation carefully.

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