Metadata from radio station streaming with Chromecast Audio

Third party integrations
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I would like to display metadata from the radio station streaming on my Chromecast Audio devices.

However, I’m only able to find the attributes for station name and picture.

ffprobe http://nrk-mms-live.telenorcdn.net:80/nrk_radio_jazz_mp3_h

Gives me the following metadata output:

Metadata:
icy-name : NRK Jazz
icy-pub : 1
StreamTitle : Women Of Santiago med Viktoria Tolstoy(Utøver)

This is not perfect, but maybe the best I can get.

Are there any way that I would be able to get this value into Home Assistant?

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I think you should be able to get the info into ha with a command line sensor an some template script plus some more bash magic… but I’m too much of a noob to provide any code samples…guess it should be pretty simple for someone who knows what he’s doing

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Hi @moltubakk,
Did you have any chance with this? I’m going to dig here and there but if you had any clue, it would help.

TU

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Hi @5AMsan! Sorry for the complete lack of follow-up!

I’ve been quite busy on other projects for months, and away from HA for a while.

Regarding the radio stuff, I ended up attacking it from an other angle:

As my listening at present is limited to Spotify, BBC, as well as Norwegian and Swedish radio (NRK, SR), I ended up creating my own web service. Based on the URL reported from the media player entities, I do a lookup against the APIs from the different radio stations. The endpoints from my web service is used for the Lovelace GUI.

This is far from perfect, and I have no guarantee for how long the radio station APIs will remain unchanged. But at present it works quite well.

Did you manage to do anything ‘the proper way’?

–bjørnar

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Would you share how you did this web service, and use it in lovelace GUI? Maybe others (I for one) would be interested and could do something similar.