I have a Marantz M-CR610 which is recognised as a media_player by HA, courtesy of the DLNA/UPnP LMS plugin.
I have a Favourite set up in LMS to play Radio 2 Live - this is the URL that gets used if I click on this Favourite to play Radio 2 on the Marantz:
http://192.168.1.36:9000/plugins/Favorites/index.html?sess=1&index=2&player=bb%3Abb%3A8f%3A34%3Ae8%3Ac6player=bb:bb:8f:34:e8:c6
Can anyone advise on how this can be converted to an HA script to do the same thing?
I have previously used this type of script to play a favourite, but when I try this (with a Favourite called “Radio 2 LIVE”) the syntax is not accepted
sequence:
- data:
entity_id: media_player.marantz_m_cr610
command: favorites
parameters:
- playlist
- play
- Radio 2 LIVE
action: squeezebox.call_method
You can’t play favorites by name - you need to use their id.
action: squeezebox.call_method
data:
command: favorites
parameters:
- playlist
- play
- item_id:0
You can get the item ids from
action: squeezebox.call_query
data:
command: favorites
parameters:
- items
- 0
- 10
This will give you the first 10 favorites for example, or if you want, you can do
action: squeezebox.call_query
data:
command: favorites
parameters:
- items
- 0
- 10
- "search: classic fm"
to search for a particular one. The item id returned will be something like id: aa134ee3.0. You can use the whole thing, or just the bit after the .
item_id:aa134ee3.0 and item_id:0 are the same.
I’ve got a PR open to add simplified search and play actions which will make this easier Add simplified actions for searching and playing to Squeezebox by peteS-UK · Pull Request #129858 · home-assistant/core. No progress on it of late, but fingers crossed. Doc PR is Add search and play action documentation for squeezebox integration by peteS-UK · Pull Request #35613 · home-assistant/home-assistant.io is you’re interested.
Thanks for the code. When I try to run it I get a message telling me that I need to have a target defined. I’ve tried adding my media_player as a target (see below) but got this error:
This action requires a target, please define a target 'entity_id', 'device_id', or 'area_id' under 'target:' or 'data:'
Any ideas??
action: squeezebox.call_query
target: media_player.marantz_m_cr610_2
data:
command: favorites
parameters:
- items
- 0
- 10
action: squeezebox.call_query
data:
command: favorites
parameters:
- items
- 0
- 10
target:
entity_id: media_player.bathroom
Easiest way to test that stuff is to use the Developer Tools / Actions and then you can test things through the UI and check the yaml
Thanks - yes that’s what I’ve been doing, That command was executed, but I don’t see where the output is being written??
As per the doc Squeezebox (Lyrion Music Server) - Home Assistant, call_query writes its results to the ‘query_result’ attribute of the player.
This is my list of favourites from the LMS UI:
If I run this:
action: squeezebox.call_method
data:
command: favorites
parameters:
- playlist
- play
- item_id:2
target:
entity_id: media_player.marantz_m_cr610_2
Nothing gets played on the selected media player (or any other media player that I try).
I’m guessing that favourites should be numbered from 0 upwards, so I don’t understand why this command doesn’t work
???
What’s the result of the query? Have tried doing this from developer tools/actions. Does that list the marantz as available for call_method - I assume it must be else you’d be getting an error
Anything in the log? If not, turn on the debug log, run the command turn it off again - the log is very chatty so just look at the time you’re running the command and see if there’s anything there.
I enabled “Debug connection” in Debug tools, then ran this command:
action: squeezebox.call_method
data:
command: favorites
parameters:
- playlist
- play
- item_id:2
target:
entity_id: media_player.marantz_m_cr610_2
There was no error, but nothing played on the media_player, and there was no entry in either the home assistant log or the squeezeboxserver log.
OK - as before, what’s in the query response. Also, when you say nothing in the HA log, there is surely lots of stuff in there - the integration is very chatty. Maybe no errors, but you should be seeing lots of messages
Sorry - where can I find the query response? I can’t see this anywhere in the Actions section of the Developer UI.
There is literally nothing in the HA log relating to the squeezebox command that I’m executing. Thousands of ZHA log entries, but nothing for squeezebox.
EDIT: Ooops sorry there was a single line:
WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.service] Referenced entities media_player.marantz_m_cr610 are missing or not currently available
I get the same message whichever media player I try
I’ve also just noticed that in the States page of the HA UI I can see the list of favourites for media_player.marantz_m_cr610:
group_members:
query_result:
title: Favorites
loop_loop:
- id: 5ba5c646.0
name: On mysqueezebox.com
image: html/images/favorites.png
isaudio: 0
hasitems: 1
- id: 5ba5c646.1
name: Random songs
type: audio
image: plugins/RandomPlay/html/images/icon.png
isaudio: 1
hasitems: 0
- id: 5ba5c646.2
name: Radio 2 LIVE
type: audio
image: >-
/imageproxy/https%3A%2F%2Fsounds.files.bbci.co.uk%2F3.5.0%2Fnetworks%2Fbbc_radio_two%2Fblocks-colour_600x600.png/image.png
isaudio: 1
hasitems: 0
- id: 5ba5c646.3
name: Songs - random
type: audio
image: plugins/DynamicPlaylists4/html/images/dpl_icon_svg.png
isaudio: 1
hasitems: 0
count: 4
…which seems to confirm that (a) the media player is known to HA, and (b) favourute #2 is valid
Aahh…I think I’ve stumbled upon the solution. I reloaded the LMS integration and that command now works on my media player. Must’ve been a glitch with the integration.
Many thanks for your help with this.
yes, it’s an attribute of the player - like any of the states - is it on or off, what’s it playing etc. So, States is an easy place to see it.
ok. good to know. it was defo something odd
Hmmm…maybe not quite…when I turn this into a script:
sequence:
- action: squeezebox.call_method
metadata: {}
data:
command: favorites
parameters: playlist
- playlist
- play
- item_id:2
target:
entity_id: media_player.marantz_m_cr610
It doesn’t work - I get this error in the HA log:
INFO (MainThread) [denonavr.input] No mapping for source Media Server found
no idea what that means - it’s from the denonavr integration i think.