Mini Media Player not showing artwork

mike144 · July 28, 2023, 6:55am

I have followed the Smart Home Junkie video on setting up a Spotify player (and the Radio Player). However the mini media card is not showing the artwork when I play from Spotify (although the HA suggested media control card does show it). Secondly, I cannot get any radio stations to work. I am using Echos as speakers, and I am having all sorts of issues with them only being occasionally available, but that is for a separate discussion - I think. Can anyone see the error(s) in the following code please.

type: custom:mini-media-player
entity: media_player.master_bedroom_echo_dot
name: Master Bedroom Echo
icon: mdi:music
artwork: cover
source: full
sound_mode: full
info: scroll
background: /local/community/mini-media-player/spotify/radiobackground.jpg
shortcuts:
  columns: 3
  buttons:
    - name: Spotify Rock'N'Roll
      type: service
      id: spotcast.start
      data:
        device_name: Master Bedroom Echo Dot
        uri: spotify:playlist:04FQPy2qlfN865yzo3BzgL
        random_song: true
        shuffle: true
    - name: Spotify Party
      type: service
      id: spotcast.start
      data:
        device_name: Master Bedroom Echo Dot
        uri: spotify:playlist:6Yt6tgQmWnThGDQtWOyoWQ
        random_song: true
        shuffle: true
    - type: script
      name: Talksport Radio
      id: script.media_play_talksport
    - type: script
      name: BBC World Service from TuneIn
      id: script.bbc_world_service_from_tunein
    - type: script
      name: BBC Radio 1
      id: script.media_play_bbc_radio_1
    - type: script
      name: BBC Radio 2
      id: script.media_play_bbc_radio_2

And here is one of the scripts for the Radio

alias: "Media: Play BBC Radio 1"
sequence:
  - service: media_player.play_media
    data:
      media_content_id: media-source://radio_browser/d97b5842-8e9b-46cc-85f0-d2dff6738c7c
      media_content_type: music
      enqueue: replace
    target:
      entity_id: media_player.master_bedroom_echo_dot
mode: single
icon: mdi:play

Joerg · July 29, 2023, 9:21am

Can’t tell if your code is okay, but I can’t get the radio station running with it.

After I’ve tried different approaches which were more or less working, I ended up by using the spotify-card with the spotify integration and spotcast and for playing radio stations by some drop-down lists (helpers, for radio stations and echos) and a script, which all works pretty well.

what you see: playing Spotify in the shower and BBC Radio 1 in the office.

Since a couple of weeks the information in mini-media-player (artwork, songtitles, etc) is not always updated automatically and I have to reload the alexa integration and even than it still shows the artwork of the kitchen device despite its not playing anymore.

mike144 · July 30, 2023, 8:16am

Hi Joerg
Thank you so much for helping.
Would you mind posting your code here for me to follow ?

woempiej · July 30, 2023, 8:24am

Try TUNEIN for radio

mike144 · July 30, 2023, 9:23am

Thank you
Brilliant - that works.
How do I find the specific Tunein radio stations for the scripts ?
BBC Radio 1 and 2 both work, as does Talksport, but not BBC World Service. I simply used
play BBC-World-Service

woempiej · July 30, 2023, 9:50am

Play BBC-World-Service-News

Google “tunein bbc world service” use the url name

Joerg · July 30, 2023, 12:19pm

Go to tunein and search for the radio station you want. Use it excatly as it’s written there, like all in upper-cases, mind hyphen, etc.

The script original is by @poudenes posted there → Echo Devices (Alexa) as Media Player - Testers Needed - #5501 by poudenes

Mind the different naming of my helpers.
For the dropdown-lists (helpers)

The script.
Note: it won’t work with Alexa groups, see the Alexa integration. If you have for example a stereo group (like I do, named officestereo) you have to call it on one of the devices of the group, here media_player.echo_office2

As you can see with the helper, I have a lot of radio stations configured, but I shortend the code of the script (media_content_id) in here to the last two entries.

alias: Stream Radio
icon: mdi:play
description: >-
  Radio - Here all channels can be selected and turn them on or off on Tablet or
  Alexa
sequence:
  - service: media_player.play_media
    data:
      entity_id: >-
        {% if is_state('input_select.helpers_echo_selector', 'Office') %}
        media_player.echo_office2 {% elif
        is_state('input_select.helpers_echo_selector', 'Shower') %}
        media_player.echo_shower {% elif
        is_state('input_select.helpers_echo_selector', 'Living') %}
        media_player.echo_wohnen1 {% elif
        is_state('input_select.helpers_echo_selector', 'Kitchen') %}
        media_player.echo_kitchen {% endif %}

      media_content_id: >-
        {% if is_state('input_select.helpers_radio_station', 'Ibiza Live
        Radio') and states('input_select.helpers_echo_selector') in ['Office',
        'Shower', 'Kitchen', 'Living'] %} 
          Ibiza Live Radio
        {% elif is_state('input_select.helpers_radio_station', 'BBC Radio 1')
        and states('input_select.helpers_echo_selector') in ['Office', 'Shower',
        'Kitchen', 'Living'] %} 
          BBC Radio 1

        {% endif %}

      media_content_type: >-
        {% if is_state('input_select.helpers_echo_selector', 'other') %}
        audio/mp3 {% elif states('input_select.helpers_echo_selector') in
        ['Office', 'Shower', 'Kitchen', 'Living'] %} TUNEIN {% endif %}

Note: poudenes uses custom as media_conten_type.
I found using TUNEIN is more reliable.

The card:

type: vertical-stack
title: Station & Echo Selector
cards:
  - type: entities
    entities:
      - entity: input_select.helpers_echo_selector
      - entity: input_select.helpers_radio_station
      - entity: script.stream_radio
        icon: mdi:play
        secondary_info: none
        name: Start selection
    theme: midnight
    title: null

Edit:
I corrected the script as it was corrupted by clipping the radio stations.

mike144 · July 31, 2023, 7:30am

Thank you both - more than I could have hoped for.