Lovelace: Mini Media Player

This was a reply to @staceydodds

I do not believe you can stream urls to alexa devices
:frowning_with_open_mouth:

Can you create a shortcut to directly open the Sonos radio station-favorites? Instead of having to tap on the media-icon, then “Search Media” → “Favorites” → “Radio”.

try as follows:

type: custom:mini-media-player
entity: media_player.gunters_echo_dot
shortcuts:
  buttons:
    - name: Radio21
      type: custom
      id: play radio21
      icon: mdi:radio

@Reini79
I’m sorry that I’m only writing now
Thanks for your answer!
This code works now:

type: custom:mini-media-player
entity: media_player.gunters_echo_dot
artwork: cover
info: short
shortcuts:
  buttons:
    - name: Radio21
      icon: mdi:radio
      type: music
      id: media-source://radio_browser/e417eec8-b2ad-466f-9a3c-ce4abd05c37a
volume_stateless: true
announce: true
group: false
toggle_power: false
source: full
sound_mode: full

Unfortunately the volume changes independently.
Advertising louder
Music quieter
News quieter.
Can that be changed?

Quick question: I use the screenshot provided by Android ADB as artwork in mini-media-player. Is there a way to instruct (or modify) mini-media-player to hold and use the last image whenever an image becomes no longer available?

Example: The artwork displays find most of the time on my Nvidia Shield. However, when a movie starts on Hulu or Disney plus, an entity_picture is no longer provided. Rather than going blank, I’d prefer that mini-media-player just hold the last image received.

can you share this amazing card? THANX

Hi,

i was playing with the new Sections dashboard and noticed that the dimension of the tiles are not perfectly aligned.

Does anyone knows if it is just me or is a common bug?

Thanks

I have a lot of google speakers at home and I am looking for a way to use some kind of variable input for the entity. At the moment I use my spotify integration as the media_player entity, but that is kind of slow when new song/speaker is choosen.

I have also tried using conditional cards for each speaker, but every time I buy a new speaker or create a new group I have to do a lot of coding.

I have a script (in node-red) that saves the information of the current playing speaker or group and I would like to use this as an input to the entity, to minimize the amount of code needed.

Is there anyway of solving this in a nice way?

Here is an example of the minimal amount of code I am looking for (but that does not work)

type: custom:mini-media-player
entity: >
  {{ 'media_player.livingroom' if (states('input_text.active_speaker')
  == 'Livingroom') else 'media_player.kitchen' }}

Hi,
I was successful in setting up mini player with radio stations (from radio browser). Now I want to stream mp3s from my Synology NAS (DLNA), either specific folders or genre. How can I do this?

This is my DLNA server from synology:
Screenshot 2024.11.16-18.16

Here my card:
Screenshot 2024.11.16-18.19

And here is the code from my card:

type: custom:mini-media-player
entity: media_player.ue46f5500
hide:
  volume: false
  power_state: false
  icon_state: true
  power: true
  volume_level: false
  play_pause: true
  source: true
shortcuts:
  columns: 3
  hide_when_off: 0
  buttons:
    - data:
        entity_id: media_player.chromecast_dg_2
        media_content_id: media-source://radio_browser/cbd9a2cb-7e37-4362-9eb3-269ed743fc62
        media_content_type: audio/mpeg
      id: media_player.play_media
      name: null
      cover: /local/bilder/ö1.jpg
      type: service
    - data:
        entity_id: media_player.chromecast_dg_2
        media_content_id: media-source://radio_browser/8a3685e2-711e-4764-9080-6fa143c33014
        media_content_type: audio/mpeg
      id: media_player.play_media
      name: null
      cover: /local/bilder/radiowien.jpg
      type: service
    - data:
        entity_id: media_player.chromecast_dg_2
        media_content_id: media-source://radio_browser/e723f7f8-0db1-4bc5-a64c-64d8377f9f9a
        media_content_type: audio/mpeg
      id: media_player.play_media
      cover: /local/bilder/ö3.jpg
      type: service
    - data:
        entity_id: media_player.ue46f5500
        source: HDMI
      id: media_player.select_source
      type: service
      name: switch HDMI
      icon: mdi:audio-video
info: short
name: Chromecast DG | Samsung TV
source: icon
sound_mode: icon
artwork: cover
volume_stateless: false

Hello.
I use Mini Media Player for my Sony tv (andoird tv).
I can control the volume and turn on and off the tv.
i would like to have 3 buttons which will change the source of the tv to a specific app like, spotify or nordvpn.

here is my code:

type: custom:mini-media-player
name: Living Room TV
entity: media_player.android_tv_192_168_1_127
artwork: cover-fit
source: full
sound_mode: icon
info: short
shortcuts:
  columns: 3
  buttons:
    - icon: fapro:freetv (1)
      type: source
      id: tv.freetv.androidtv
    - icon: fapro:Nordvpn1 (1)
      type: source
      id: com.nordvpn.android
    - icon: fab:spotify
      type: source
      id: Spotify
hide:
  source: true
volume_stateless: true

hope someone can help me with this.

Hi,

Anyone know how to change the ‘placeholder’ text in the TTS input?
I want to change it from Text to speech… to Search…

Thanks.

Hi,
I want to mute a different player, so I use button:
Screenshot 20241125-082900

type: custom:mini-media-player
entity: media_player.chromecast_wz_3
artwork: cover
name: Wohnzimmer
shortcuts:
  columns: 3
  buttons:
    - data:
        entity_id: media_player.tx_nr616
      id: media_player.volume_down
      type: service
      name: Vol -
    - data:
        entity_id: media_player.tx_nr616
      id: media_player.volume_up
      type: service
      name: Vol +
    - data:
        entity_id: media_player.tx_nr616
        is_volume_muted: "{{ not state_attr('media_player.tx_nr616','is_volume_muted') }}"
      id: media_player.volume_mute
      type: service
      name: Mute

Vol + and - are working, but mute not with following error:

Why is the template for “is_volume_muted” an invalid boolean? Under developer tool it seems to be ok:

Any ideas?