Would love a native way to do this. For those that don’t want to mess with scripts if you install music assistant this generates new media players (duplicates of your current ones including nest speakers) and allows you to send the command media repeat all command which will loop the audio. Benifit is thistle doesn’t get caught up in loops or interrupted. You can even pause and play and it will playing on loop.
Your seven-step process worked for me too based on testing; thank you very much for the cheat sheet. Haven’t set up completely to use at night because it took me a while to get working. It wasn’t working at first, but then realized in logs wasnt triggering, so added a trigger to go with the ‘while’ time range in step 5.
It’s been some time, but would you mind sharing the code? I am pretty new to home assistant and your explanation was not enough for me to get this up and running.
Spent far too much time trying to get this right so thought I would document it here.
Here is what I did:
- created a automation which implements the while loop when a light switch is switch on:
The problem I was having was if I stopped the mp3 playing then I had to wait until the delay had run down before I could re-start the mp3.
So I created another automation which does the following steps:
- stops the audio
- Turn off the first automation
- Turn on the first automation
Code for first automation:
alias: play2
description: Play music when the light comes on
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id:
- light.picture_leds_switch_1
to: null
from: null
condition: []
action:
- choose:
- conditions:
- condition: state
entity_id: light.picture_leds_switch_1
state: "on"
sequence:
- repeat:
sequence:
- service: media_player.play_media
target:
entity_id: media_player.office_speaker
data:
media_content_id: >-
media-source://media_source/local/04-Won't Fight Your
War.mp3
media_content_type: audio/mpeg
metadata:
title: 04-Won't Fight Your War.mp3
thumbnail: null
media_class: music
children_media_class: null
navigateIds:
- {}
- media_content_type: app
media_content_id: media-source://media_source
- delay:
hours: 0
minutes: 5
seconds: 13
milliseconds: 0
while:
- condition: state
entity_id: light.picture_leds_switch_1
state: "on"
mode: single
Code for second automation:
alias: stopmp3
description: Stop music when the light goes off
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id:
- light.picture_leds_switch_1
to: "off"
from: "on"
condition: []
action:
- choose:
- conditions:
- condition: state
entity_id: light.picture_leds_switch_1
state: "off"
sequence:
- service: media_player.media_stop
metadata: {}
data: {}
target:
device_id: 538c2bef9b21fb879fbd6948f5da6f80
- service: automation.turn_off
metadata: {}
data:
stop_actions: true
target:
entity_id: automation.play2
- service: automation.turn_on
metadata: {}
data: {}
target:
entity_id: automation.play2
mode: single
Hope this helps someone
You should be able to achieve your goal with a single automation. Set its mode to restart and configure its State Trigger to detect the light turning on and off.
alias: example
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: light.picture_leds_switch_1
to:
- 'on'
- 'off'
from:
- 'off'
- 'on'
condition: []
action:
- if: "{{ trigger.to_state.state == 'on' }}"
then:
- repeat:
sequence:
- service: media_player.play_media
target:
entity_id: media_player.office_speaker
data:
media_content_id: >-
media-source://media_source/local/04-Won't Fight Your War.mp3
media_content_type: audio/mpeg
metadata:
title: 04-Won't Fight Your War.mp3
thumbnail: null
media_class: music
children_media_class: null
navigateIds:
- {}
- media_content_type: app
media_content_id: media-source://media_source
- delay:
minutes: 5
seconds: 13
while:
- condition: state
entity_id: light.picture_leds_switch_1
state: "on"
else:
- service: media_player.media_stop
target:
entity_id: media_player.office_speaker
mode: restart
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That worked, thanks I should have RTFM…