Rest call to multiple entities / how do i reference their IP?

brunkj · August 25, 2022, 8:27pm

I am using the fully kiosk integration, so i have 4 tablets configured. I have a rest call to play a sound on the tablets. Since I have 4 tablets currently and possibly more in the future, the rest call takes in the ip/hostname of the tablet to send the rest call to.

My question is, is it possible through HA to pass that ip or hostname? I have an automation when the door bell rings I would like all the tablets to play the sound, so by doing a group i don’t know how to programmatically in the automation (or yaml) to pass the ip addresses of all the devices in that group.

I could do a list of the ip’s, but ideally i would like this to just work as I add tablets to the group.

Any thoughts?

nickrout · August 25, 2022, 9:36pm

If you use this Fully Kiosk Browser Custom Component it will create a media_player, which you can then group perhaps?

brunkj · August 26, 2022, 4:44pm

Here is my rest command

http://{{ tablet }}:2323/?cmd={{ cmd }}\&url={{ url }}\&key={{ key }}\&value={{ value }}\&type={{ type }}\&loop={{ loop }}\&exitOnTouch={{ exitOnTouch }}\&exitOnCompletion={{ exitOnCompletion }}\&showControls={{ showControls }}\&password=<redacted>

Here is my service call to 1 of the tablets.

service: rest_command.kiosk_command
data:
  cmd: playVideo
  tablet: 192.168.2.78
  url: http://192.168.2.14:93/h264/Doorbell/temp.m3u8
  type: json
  showControls: 0
  loop: 0
  exitOnCompletion: 1
  exitOnTouch: 1

Not sure if i can use a data template, and still get the “tablet” var somehow out of the entities in a group. I am using the fully kiosk browser integration so i do have the entities created. SO hopefully I can figure out how to add them all to a group, and using the data template maybe get their ip.

Thanks!

nickrout · August 26, 2022, 9:37pm

Do you have media_player entities for each tablet?

brunkj · August 27, 2022, 2:46am

yes. mediaplayer for each, just no playvideo().

nickrout · August 27, 2022, 3:04am

Have you tried grouping the media_player entities?

brunkj · August 27, 2022, 3:19am

i havent, but i don’t know how the action will know the value for “tablet” to know how to reach the end point by just grouping

nickrout · August 27, 2022, 3:37am

If you group then you play to the group instead of the individual players.

brunkj · August 27, 2022, 4:19am

right, but the fully kiosk browser integration doesn’t have a play video. and my rest service needs to know which ip to send the command to. I don’t think it will work since there is no mechanism there (that i can see) that will populate the “tablet” variable with the ip address of that device.

nickrout · August 27, 2022, 4:50am

Are you sure?

github.com

cgarwood/homeassistant-fullykiosk/blob/2064046c415d4cd5e6e5f5053159c7c3cb6916f9/custom_components/fullykiosk/media_player.py#L9


      
          """Fully Kiosk Browser media_player entity."""
          import logging
          
          import voluptuous as vol
          from homeassistant.components import media_source
          from homeassistant.components.media_player import (
              ATTR_MEDIA_VOLUME_LEVEL,
              SERVICE_VOLUME_SET,
              SUPPORT_PLAY_MEDIA,
              SUPPORT_VOLUME_SET,
              MediaPlayerEntity,
          )
          from homeassistant.components.media_player.browse_media import (
              async_process_play_media_url,
          )
          from homeassistant.helpers import config_validation as cv
          from homeassistant.helpers import entity_platform
          from homeassistant.helpers.update_coordinator import CoordinatorEntity

brunkj · August 27, 2022, 5:50pm

i tried playing the same url that is in my rest call using play media and it’s only audio.

There are also some other params that are in there. Like tap the screen to stop playing. if it’s not a stream you can tell it to loop it ect.

nickrout · August 28, 2022, 12:24am

The integration should be in HA core soon https://github.com/cgarwood/homeassistant-fullykiosk/issues/118

brunkj · August 28, 2022, 1:21am

Well, that will solve part of it. Just need to figure out how to get it work with sending video URL. I was looking at it, and trying to see if I could contribute to it, but not quite there yet.