LinkPlay Integration

Feature Requests
474

Don’t think it’s a Linkplay device

475

According to the Linkplay website, it is.

476

Same here…did you have find any solutions?

477

No, not yet. It is on the back burner because it is beyond my ability to deep-dive

478

Hi guys,

i have just a short question:

Is it possible to create an automation with an Zigbee Button which checks if one Linkplay Device is currently playing and the device where the button is located will create / join the multiroom-group?
In this setup I plan to use only acrylic devices so all device will have the same hardware / software.

Best regards …

479

hi there,

i got 2 arilyc devices (miniv3, pro v4) - i got them working with the linkplay integration from nagyrobi. Everthing is fine but i can´t get any artwork/cover shown in HA with media player and mini-media-player.
I started looking for help already in the mini-media-player thread (last entries).

But after some digging i guess the issue may be related to the linkplay integration and not the media-players.

any help is very appreciated - i would really love to see sone pictures on my Dashboard :slight_smile:

480

My artwork only works when using Spotify, but not with internet radio

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481

This config works for images on mine with internet radio :

media_player:
  - platform: linkplay
    host: 192.168.1.221
    name: Office Media
    icecast_metadata: "StationNameSongTitle"
482

thanks guys …

got the same config and when choosing spotifymusic in the android app - i get a cover shown in HA … :slight_smile: lets see if we can get more

appreciate the help :slight_smile:

483

I missed a bit of my config … you need the lastfm entry too!!

So it is :

media_player:
  - platform: linkplay
    host: 192.168.1.221
    name: Office Media
    icecast_metadata: "StationNameSongTitle"
    lastfm_api_key: (you need to sign up for a free api key and put it here!)

This will then look up the artwork for you from the radio stream using the icecast data.

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484

Does this work for all internet radio, or just lastfm?

485

It works for all Internet radio that has the icecast data embedded. LastFM is just used to get the album art.

486

Hmm, doesn’t seem to work for me

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487

Does the media player show the track and artist?

LastFM requires a good match so, for example, this one I am listening to right now won’t work because it has (87) to denote the year on it.

image

488

Also, not sure if makes any odds but I have icecast in double quotes :

icecast_metadata: "StationNameSongTitle"
489

I changed to double quotes, but it’s still the same anyway.

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Are you using an Acrylic board?
And what internet radio station?i

490

Hmmm the fact you don’t have the song and artist showing probably means the station doesn’t do icecast (i.e. embed the info).

I’m using a Tibo for my source, but that should make any difference.

Here is my full conf with the radio stations :

media_player:
  - platform: linkplay
    host: 192.168.1.221
    name: Office Media
    icecast_metadata: "StationNameSongTitle"
    lastfm_api_key: redacted
    sources:
      {
        "bluetooth": "Bluetooth",
        "line-in": "Line-in",
        "http://79.111.14.76:8002/femalemetal": "Female Vocal in Metal",
        "http://213.141.131.10:8002/medievalmetal": "Medieval Metal/Rock",
        "https://quincy.torontocast.com:1505/stream": "Mixed Metal",
        "http://79.120.77.11:8002/powermetal": "Power Metal",
        "http://79.111.119.111:8002/speedmetal": "Speed Metal",
        "http://79.120.77.11:8002/symphometal": "Symphonic Metal",
        "http://79.120.77.11:8002/thrashmetal": "Thrash Metal",
        "http://79.120.77.11:8002/deathmetal": "Death Metal",
        "http://79.120.12.130:8002/thrashdeath": "Thrash Death Metal",
        "http://79.120.77.11:8002/melodicdeath": "Melodic Death Metal",
        "http://79.111.119.111:8002/epicmetal": "Epic Metal",
        "http://79.111.14.76:8002/doom": "Doom Metal"
      }

The mixed metal station won’t show artwork because they add the year to the end of the song. All others work 100% with album art.

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491

I take it you like metal?
:rofl:

492

Just a bit :wink:

493

I have problems with the different sources on linkplay media players, maybe someone can help. My setup consists of 6 linkplay devices (4 audio pro speakers and 2 wiim devices) and I’m using the newest beta of the linkplay integration.

When the source of a linkplay media player is changed to Bluetooth, the state immediately changes to ‘playing’, even if nothing is actually playing. The same happens with all other sources, except when the source is wifi. I understand that getting meta data with Bluetooth doesn’t work, but is reading out the players state also not possible?