I have a problem calling the service “media_player.play_media” in an automation. I always get that error message if I choose to run the automation
running the the service call with the exact same settings from developer tools works fine.
Here are the logs for running the media player from automation
somehow ite player is turned off
here the logs from running from developer tools
I dont know what I am missing here? Anyy suggestions? Is this a bug?
here is the code
alias: Alarm Sirene Test
description: ""
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id:
- alarm_control_panel.alarmo
to: triggered
condition: []
action:
- repeat:
until:
- condition: state
entity_id: alarm_control_panel.alarmo
state: disarmed
sequence:
- service: media_player.volume_set
data:
volume_level: 1
target:
entity_id: media_player.the_van
- service: media_player.play_media
target:
entity_id: media_player.the_van
data:
media_content_id: >-
https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.ui.nabu.casa/local/alarm.mp3
media_content_type: music
alias: Play Alarm
mode: single
by debug traces do you mean this?
Edit: sometimes it seems to work, sometimes it plays only distorted sound and the set_volume command is ignored always
Yes (although the full json is more useful than screenshots).
You probably need to include delay(s) in your repeat loop, otherwise you will be calling the service on-top of itself. Start with a delay at least as long as your mp3’s length, then you can experiment with shortening the delay.
You can also use an If/then so the volume change is only performed on the first loop, which might help too.
alias: Alarm Sirene Test
description: ""
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id:
- alarm_control_panel.alarmo
to: triggered
condition: []
action:
- repeat:
until:
- condition: state
entity_id: alarm_control_panel.alarmo
state: disarmed
sequence:
- if:
- condition: template
value_template: "{{ repeat.first }}"
then:
- service: media_player.volume_set
data:
volume_level: 1
target:
entity_id: media_player.the_van
- delay:
milliseconds: 500
- service: media_player.play_media
target:
entity_id: media_player.the_van
data:
media_content_id: >-
https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.ui.nabu.casa/local/alarm.mp3
media_content_type: music
alias: Play Alarm
- delay: 3
mode: single