Media Browser Player Selection

[eximo84]

What determines which media player appears in the media player selection list on the media playback page?

I can see the following:

Browser
Google home minis
osmc
plex app on iOS device
Apple TV

What i dont see are

Airport Express
forked_daapd
browser mod

For example i can use TTS on these because they dont appear in the media browser.

[pedolsky]

Have a look here:

2022.3: Select and play media

You won’t be able to know. You can look at an integration and attempt to decipher the code, but you’ll need to know the API that the integration uses. Just so you understand, developers won’t even know this information. They can tell you what feature is needed, but every company is going to have some stupid name for it like yamaha’s “MusicCast” (I have no idea if that actually will do this). Your best bet if you just want it to work is to buy a cast device like google cast, they are $25.

[eximo84]

Thanks. So Apple TV shows up but just added a HomePod via the same integration and that doesn’t appear.

Seems the list is bugged for me.

[eximo84]

Rebooted HA and HomePod now showing in the media browser but when I select it I just get a spinning wheel. No options to push media.

TTS works if I call a service.

[Chompy (Cory)]

I’ve been dealing with the ‘spinning circle’ issue for quite some time. Have you found a solution?