Lovelace: Mini Media Player

gillman99 · January 23, 2021, 3:21pm

I’m trying to use the group configuration to obtain a setup like the docs (see below):

My audio setup is I have 2 Sonos AMPS that connect to either living_room or outside so I have:

media_player.living_room
media_player.outside

I used the following YAML:

type: entities
entities:
  - type: 'custom:mini-media-player'
    entity: media_player.multiroom_player
    group: true
    source: icon
    info: short
    hide:
      volume: true
      power: true
  - type: 'custom:mini-media-player'
    entity: media_player.living_room
    group: true
    hide:
      controls: true
  - type: 'custom:mini-media-player'
    entity: media_player.outside
    group: true
    hide:
      controls: true

and get this result:

Ideally I think I’m supposed to have the media_player.multiroom_player control the source, play, pause, next and then the power buttons for media_player.living_room and media_player.outside are controlled by the power buttons.

I have looked and can’t figure out how to setup the media_player.multiroom_player which would control the stations from my sonos system. Hopefully someone has this working with Sonos and it’s easy. Any guidance is greatly appreciated.

nickrout · January 23, 2021, 7:51pm

This card does not create a media_player.

Jarne_Roussard · January 23, 2021, 11:01pm

hello you made a very nice card could you share the configuration? thanks in advance

gillman99 · January 23, 2021, 11:52pm

I have a question and a response to Jarne_Roussard:

Question: So it appears like I need to setup a media player to act as the source. I have Sonos which I thought was a media player but it doesn’t appear to be working if I put in in the yaml in the place of media_player.multiroom_player. Does everyone setup a separate media player on their machines?

The card first shown in my request above is developed by Kalkih and can be found here:

nickrout · January 24, 2021, 3:34am

Yes this whole thread is about that custom card.

Sonos is a media_player integration. You need to set it up of course. https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/sonos/ and can be used in this card.

ASNNetworks · January 24, 2021, 7:25am

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/fully-loaded-media-player-card-picture-elements-project/

LucianTothezan · January 24, 2021, 9:19am

Hello everyone. I am using the mini media player with a google nest mini. The issue that i encounter is that the controls are not all visible: previous and next track do not appear on the card. Is this behaviour normal for a nest mini? Thank you in advance for your help.

sparkydave · January 24, 2021, 10:22pm

It will kinda depend on what you are streaming to the device I think. As long as you don’t have the controls hidden in the card config they should be there and work.

LucianTothezan · January 25, 2021, 7:32am

@sparkydave, You are absolutely right. sorry for not testng before. i was using the database on my nas and i suppose that the player does not see all the tracks. by using a spotify playlist, the button do appear. thank You for the reply.

sparkydave · January 25, 2021, 8:08am

Off topic - how are you playing music from a NAS in HA?

quart-temps · January 25, 2021, 11:08am

Thank you for this great app. It works fine in my HA. Quite fine, I have one only issue.
I use a set of squeezebox (SB) that I want to synchronize. I can synchronize every SB by clicking on their own sync button.

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But when I hit the “group all” button, i get this error message:

Échec d'appel du service (trad: fail to call service) "squeezebox/sync". value should be a string for dictionary value @ data['other_player']

The “ungroup all” button works fine.

What could be the problem ?

enribomber · January 25, 2021, 6:24pm

hi guys. i use mini-media-player but i’m unable to change icon of the device.

Does anyone has same problem?

LucianTothezan · January 25, 2021, 7:25pm

I am using a mount commande for a smb share that runs at startup.

Manlycookiebear · January 27, 2021, 12:29pm

Can you share your configuration for this card? Because I’m trying to set up a speaker group for squeezebox myself and I can not even get a single box of them to sync.

I have several Squeezebox Speakers and tried to use the speaker group functionality, which is not working for me. I have used the example configuration.

The error I receive is: Failed to call service squeezebox/sync. required key not provided @ data[‘other_player’]

I can group my speakers when issuing a service call through the Home Assistant GUI.

quart-temps · January 27, 2021, 12:45pm

Here it is:

type: entities
entities:
  - type: 'custom:mini-media-player'
    entity: media_player.squeezebox_madame_ma_femme
    group: true
    source: icon
    info: short
    hide:
      volume: false
      power: false
  - type: 'custom:mini-media-player'
    entity: media_player.moode
    group: true
    hide:
      controls: false
      power: false
  - type: 'custom:mini-media-player'
    entity: media_player.squeezelite_ordimajik
    group: true
    hide:
      controls: false
      power: false
  - type: 'custom:mini-media-player'
    entity: media_player.squeezelite_x_kender
    group: true
    hide:
      controls: false
      power: false

Manlycookiebear · January 27, 2021, 1:13pm

But that is not for the speaker group, right?

quart-temps · January 27, 2021, 4:30pm

Sorry, you’re right:

type: 'custom:mini-media-player'
entity: media_player.squeezebox_madame_ma_femme
hide:
  power: true
  icon: true
  source: true
speaker_group:
  platform: squeezebox
  show_group_count: true
  entities:
    - entity_id: media_player.squeezebox_madame_ma_femme
      name: sbox madame ma femme
    - entity_id: media_player.moode
      name: sbox moode
    - entity_id: media_player.squeezelite_ordimajik
      name: sbox ordimajik
    - entity_id: media_player.squeezelite_x_kender
      name: sbox kender

Manlycookiebear · January 27, 2021, 11:51pm

Thank you! That’s really weird. Your configuration is the same as mine, but yours is working and mine isn’t. I can now also connect another box if I use the switch for a single box.

But I also have the same problem that the Ungroup button isn’t working for me either.

nickrout · January 28, 2021, 12:25am

What version of home assistant are you using? Grouping for squeezebox hasn’t always been there.

Also, try clearing the browser cache (ctrl-f5)

EDIT here is mine, not sure it is any different really:

group: true
hide:
  icon: true
  info: false
info: short
speaker_group:
  entities:
    - entity_id: media_player.laundry
      name: Study
    - entity_id: media_player.radio
      name: Radio
    - entity_id: media_player.bedroom
      name: Bedroom
    - entity_id: media_player.outside
      name: Outside
  platform: squeezebox
  show_group_count: true
type: 'custom:mini-media-player'

Manlycookiebear · January 28, 2021, 1:14pm

I’m using the latest Home Assistant version. Cache was cleared but that didn’t help.