Is there a way to hide media players when they are not available in Lovelace? I am getting this error on my plex media players. When I restart Home Assistant, the media players for plex do not show up until I start streaming something to them. I understand why the card is not showing up (there is no entity called “media_player.plex_media_room” yet), but is there a way to hide it until the media player becomes available?
changes to this once something has been streamed to it
Thank you! I think it might work, but I am having some trouble. How should the “card” portion of the filter be set up? When I use the code below, it filters correctly, but it shows a condensed version of the media player.
entities:
- media_player.roku_2
state_filter:
- 'unavailable'
- 'playing'
- 'paused'
- 'idle'
card:
- type: media-control
entity: media_player.roku_2
When I set it up like the following, The regular media player card shows up, but the filter does not work. On version 74.0 if that makes a difference
- type: entity-filter
entities:
- media_player.roku_2
state_filter:
- 'unavailable'
- 'playing'
- 'paused'
- 'idle'
card:
type: media-control
entity: media_player.roku_2
I’ve added your config as an example to the Lovelace gallery and it shows the correct card. https://home-assistant-lovelace-gallery.netlify.com//#demo-hui-entity-filter-card
Thank you for the example. I have adjusted my code to match:
- type: entity-filter
entities:
- media_player.roku_2
state_filter:
- 'playing'
card:
type: media-control
entity: media_player.roku_2
After playing around with it for a bit. I am still having an issue with the state filter specifically for “media-control” cards. When I remove type: media-control it works as expected.
View when idle:
View when playing:
When I change to type: glance It still works as expected
View when idle:
View when playing:
Now when I change type: media-control I get the following view when idle even though I would expect it to be blank like the prior two idle views from above.
Is there something I am missing?
Did you find a solution for this? I’m having the exact same problem.
No. I haven’t found a solution yet.
A solution for this is a new card coming in 0.75 (conditional). You could try in the current setup to add ‘show_empty: false’ as that might solve your problem.
have you test your solution? do you mind sharing your config/code on github? i am experiencing the same thing on .78
- type: conditional
conditions:
- entity: media_player.your_player
state_not: "unavailable"
card:
type: media-control
entity: media_player.your_playerThanks, that fixed the problem!
Sorry, which .YAML file would i need to input this code?
It’s Lovelance config
ui-lovelace.yaml
Did some research on the LoveLave UI (still abit of a noob). Worked out how to configure the UI through YAML and your fix works!
Your a Star!!!
Thanks for publishing a solution. I had the same problem with my Chromecast being powered by a TV and when the TV is off - the Chromecast is also unavailable.
However I think this is rather a workaround. In my opinion Lovelace should work as the good, old pre-0.86 UI and show a media player card with status ‘unavailable’. I’ll file a bug about this in Github
Thank you, worked like a charm!
I had the same problem. Disabled discovery for PLEX component and aaddedd: remove_unavailable_clients: true to its configuration solved problem.
media_player:
- platform: plex
remove_unavailable_clients: true