Hi all,
I’m using the attribute object which lights up my source buttons when they are selected. I noticed, in my Sonos environment, that any favourites from music services like Amazon or Apple don’t get a nice highlighted button. I’m assuming this is something to do with what the music services are returning opposed to what Sonos returns natively. Is there a workaround ?
Thanks !
Are you referring to the source_list attribute on Sonos devices?
Thanks Bill. No, this seems to be just for the shortcuts object. Name is attribute, type is string. The text says:
Specify any attribute exposed by the media player entity. The attribute value (if exists) is compared with shortcut id 's to distinguish selected/active shortcut. Examples, source for active source or sound_mode for active sound mode.
So, in my code I use ‘attribute: source’ This is will highlight the selected source button but only if its a Sonos playlist or radio station, not if its an external music source even though its within Sonos.
Sorry, not a coder, just trying to stumble my way through !
Could you perhaps add a few screenshots to illustrate? At least to me it is not really clear.
Thanks Philip. Here’s the code (work in progress) and attached is a screenshot showing the radio station LBC as the selected, playing source. If you select a source from and external service like Amazon or Apple Music, the button highlight doesn’t work. Bear in mind all my sources are via Sonos.
Does this help ?
type: vertical-stack
cards:
- type: 'custom:mini-media-player'
entity: media_player.study
artwork: full-cover
hide:
power: true
controls: true
volume: true
name: true
progress: true
info: true
icon: true
source: true
toggle_power: false
- type: 'custom:mini-media-player'
entity: media_player.study
shortcuts:
buttons:
- name: LBC
type: source
id: LBC London
- name: 4 Xtra
type: source
id: BBC Radio 4 Extra
- name: Christian
type: source
id: Christian Praise & Worship
- name: Steely D
type: source
id: Steely Dan Essentials
- name: Clapton Insp.
type: source
id: Inspired by Eric Clapton
attribute: source
Seems that in such cases the media player entity attributes do not return the “source”, but artist and title instead. I guess that may be the reason.
Thank you. I’ve now done that 
