Plex Media Player in Lovelace UI?

[anville]

I have a rasberry pi with Plex Media Player running on it.

On the old UI, it shows up in HA (Granted, it’s a bit broken, but it does show up).

Unfortunately, I can’t work out how to make it appear in the new Lovelace UI.

I’m trying things like:

  - type: media-control
    entity: media_player.plex_plexmediaplayer

and:

- type: media-control
  entity: media_player.plexmediaplayer

but I just get an unhapy red box with something like:

No state available for media_player.plex_plexmediaplayer
{
“type”: “media-control”
“entity”: “media_player.plex_plexmediaplayer”
}

Any ideas?

[dwinnn]

the YAML code looks fine for Lovelace, so maybe the name of your entity is incorrect. I would go to ‘States’ under Developer Tools and search for that name to double-check the spelling.

[anville]

Thanks, @dwinnn! I didn’t realize that facility was there.

The player was there, and called “plexmediaplayer_5”. I tuned my lovelace config, and it shows up.

I am curious where that 5 comes from, and it’s if going to become a “6” or something else later on…?

[finity]

the “_5” is added by the entity registry. It shouldn’t change anymore after that (I hope…) unless you change it manually in the GUI for the entity.