Media_player.play_media working in developer tools but not in script

[apt (Ade Thompson)]

I’m wanting to create a simple script to play a sound on my tablet using browser_mod to make the instance of the browser on the tablet a media player. If I test this in the services tab within developer tools the sound works as expected but if I add this as an action in the script it doesn’t.

Developer tab yaml that works.

Action in script that doesn’t work. (notice the reference to seek_media even though I have chosen play_media’)

Any help would be grateful. I’m running 2020.12.1 of HA.

Thanks in advance.

[Burningstone]

How do you confirm that it doesn’t work in the automation? Could as well be that the trigger or a condition you have is not working. Please show the full automation and please post code (and format it correctly), no pictures.

[apt (Ade Thompson)]

It’s a script not an automation, there are other actions that are called in the flow that do trigger when I run the script so I know the script works, the ‘sound’ action is called at the beginning of the script but doesn’t trigger.

The photos were to illustrate that it works as a service call vs the script action but see below for the action as yaml:

service: media_player.play_media
data:
  media_content_id: /local/audio/alert.mp3
  media_content_type: audio
entity_id: media_player.dashboard_wallpanel

[Burningstone]

Do you get any errors in the logs?

[apt (Ade Thompson)]

No errors. I mentioned that the screenshot referenced ‘seek media’ as opposed to ‘play media’ so wondering if this is a bug with the latest release of simple a typo.