Media_content_id from sensor state

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1

n00b here.

So I have to crawl a coupe of urls on an API to fetch a URL to play on my chromecast. I couldn’t find a nice way to do this other than creating a sensor which runs a bash-script. Seems to work fine and the sensor state is containing the url I want. However my Chromecast cannot play this, like if the url is not passed correctly. Is this even possible?

automation:
- alias: Play Brandmand Sam

  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: input_select.1salcast
    to: "Brandmand Sam"

  action:
    - service: media_player.play_media
      data:
        entity_id: media_player.1_sal
        media_content_id: sensor.brandmand_sam_url
        media_content_type: movie

I have also tried these:
media_content_id: {{ sensor.brandmand_sam_url }}
media_content_id: {{ state.sensor.brandmand_sam_url }}
with no luck.

2

Hi,

If the address is correct then you can get the value of the sensor with ‘{{states.sensor.brandmand_sam_url.state}}’

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3

Hi.
It is still not doing it. When I look at the attributes for the mediaplayer, it says:
media_content_id: {{ states.sensor.brandmand_sam_url.state }}
…So like it is not resolved to a url.
If I write in the url manuallay, it works fine. So the url is good.

4

Use “data_template:” instead of “data:”

Then go to Templates and check if there’s any error

5

Awesome! Now it works :slight_smile:

6

My bad, didn’t read the full script in the first instance.

Anyway, whenever you need to use custom values for any field you need to template.

7

Roger that.
And thank you very much for your help!

8

You’re welcome

9

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