Lovelace: Mini Media Player

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.

nickrout · January 28, 2021, 6:54pm

I think your problem is surrounding the mini-media-player with an entities card. Follow my code, or @quart-temps’

quart-temps · January 29, 2021, 11:04am

Hi @nickrout
Would you have any idea about my problem ?

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']

nickrout · January 29, 2021, 8:08pm

There is a bug with the squeezebox implementation. Workaround: tick the boxes one at a time.

quart-temps · January 29, 2021, 8:42pm

Ok ! Thank you for your answer !