Lovelace: Mini Media Player

nickrout · December 5, 2022, 7:32am

What is that?

OrangeMeeples · December 5, 2022, 8:01am

The three vertical bars on the right side of this image move up and down indicating that this device is actively playing music. Not looking for exactly the same look, but some visual indication that this particular device is actively playing music (besides just seeing a pause vs. play button).

nickrout · December 5, 2022, 8:04am

Got it.

This didn’t get far. 💈 Animated icons

Maybe via some sort of CSS?

OrangeMeeples · December 5, 2022, 5:28pm

Thanks Nick. The custom buttons looks like it may work, but now I need to figure out how to put it all together. Any pointers on how to do this with the mini-media player card?

RKor · December 10, 2022, 6:50am

How did you integrate Pandora Radio?
I can’t find a way that works with HassOS

I’d also like to ask if there’s a way to get mini media player to show the songs in the playlist so I can choose which song to play?

mboarman · December 10, 2022, 1:52pm

If you are using SONOS then this can be achieved by adding your playlist to SONOS favorites. The SONOS favorites is the Source list in this Mini Media Player

RKor · December 10, 2022, 2:47pm

Thanks for the reply. But no I’m not using Sonos

maurizio53 · December 10, 2022, 9:20pm

Is it possible to set the sonos favourites as button?
If yes, how?

maurizio53 · December 10, 2022, 9:22pm

What you mean with “source list” ? Can you share an example how to put sonos favorites in a source list?

maurizio53 · December 10, 2022, 9:28pm

Can you share the code you use for this?
Thanks…

mboarman · December 11, 2022, 2:58pm

I don’t have any examples as I changed from the mini media player over to the Sonos Player, it offers so many more options if you’re using a Sonos setup and is very easy to setup and maintain.

photo64 · December 17, 2022, 2:12am

I just started playing around with this and set up a player with buttons that choose different Spotify playlists. Since I am using chromecasts and home mini’s it appears the only way to include or exclude various speakers is to create groups in the Home app and then use the media_player that gets created with those groups. However in my current button setup it only allows for the name of one media_player. Would it be possible to pass a variable to the Device_Name so that an input_select could be created with a list of all the media_players and choose a value to play in the mini_media_player? Then I could pick and choose the media_players based on the groups I created that should be playing. Unless there is another way to accomplish this?

buttons: 
    - name: Christmas 
      type: service 
      icon: mdi:music 
      id: spotcast.start 
      data: 
          device_name: ChromecastAudio.   <- pass a variable/data template here?
          uri: spotify:playlist:37i9dQxxxx

CDRX2 · December 17, 2022, 6:38am

Yes, it can be done, but you’ll have to use this to achieve what you want.

ronschaeffer · December 17, 2022, 12:14pm

Hi all - Is it possible to define a static image to be displayed in place of the album art if not art is available? Thanks.

photo64 · December 17, 2022, 5:07pm

Thanks, this worked!

photo64 · December 17, 2022, 7:47pm

I tried searching for an answer to this but didn’t see anything. I am noticing a delay with the cover artwork changing when the next song begins and sometimes it doesn’t change at all (using Spotify). If I do a refresh of the lovelace page it immediately changes to the next song’s artwork. Is there something I can change that would control this that should be changed? I notice too that the not only is the artwork not moving to the next song the song title and progress bar aren’t changing.

Could it have anything to do with having this card in a stack-in-card or since maybe I am using the config-template-card could that have any impact?

parautenbach · December 17, 2022, 7:53pm

Did you check the docs?

ronschaeffer · December 17, 2022, 8:09pm

Yes, of course. This is the relevant section as far as I can tell:

There’s also this issue.

So, it’s looking like the answer is no. But, there’s often a way around “no” with HA. Or, I may have just missed it.

parautenbach · December 17, 2022, 8:13pm

You can set a background image.

ronschaeffer · December 17, 2022, 11:13pm

Thanks, but I’m using artwork: full_cover and am looking to use substitute album art to maintain the size/shape/look of the card, for example when there is nothing in the queue rather than to have as a full card background.

EDIT: Solution here Lovelace: Mini Media Player - #2771 by ronschaeffer