Media_player.play_media support for Openhome

Feature Requests
1

Would be great to have play_media support for Openhome/Linn devices. Such that you could call it from an automation, as if below…

action:
  - service: media_player.play_media
    data_template:
      entity_id:
        - media_player.linn_223637
      media_content_id: "http://172.24.32.13/test.mp3"
      media_content_type: audio/mp4
2

This should be straight forward since the library already supports it. I can submit a PR of the component changes to support this?

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3

Hi,

I am missing the media_player.play_media service for my Linn device, too.

At the moment I am using a workaround to trigger a radio station on my Linn device:

There is already a Roon component for Home Assistant. In Roon I have defined the needed radio station. From Home Assistant I trigger Roon to play the radion station on my Linn device.

Thanks

Michael

4

I’ve created a PR to add support when ready:
https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/28698

5

Hi,

I cannot seem to get this to work. I have an OpenHome media player and I can control it fine from HA (change volume or track, play/pause), but play_media returns a AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'ControlUrl'. I’ve managed to get it playing the current playlist via the media_play service.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.