Skip forward on media player

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It seems the media_position doesn’t update anymore as it used to.

I have tried to use the attributes that is available to get it to skip forward 30 seconds.

{{ state_attr('media_player.chromecast_vardagsrum', 'media_position') +
    (now() - as_datetime(state_attr('media_player.chromecast_vardagsrum',
    'media_position_updated_at'))).seconds + 30}}

When I used this with media_player.seek it skipped forward about 1000 seconds
Anyone have a working template for skipping forward when the media_position does not update more then when interact with the media player?

2

video scrubbing is, good or bad, platform specific. from the name you have, it looks like you have a chromecast, although i can’t tell if it’s a true google dongle, or if you’re using a built in chromecast or what.

for my chromecast, your method does still work.

i presume you meant media_player.media_seek

3

It’s the dongle type.

I could probably create a sequence to pause, skip forward, play that way the entity will update the mafia position.

4

hmmm. Perhaps, but I’m confused as to why you are seeing that issue at all and I am not

5

I can try it again. But I had a template display the expected media position.
Everything except the +30 in the template.
When I skipped forward the media position jumped about 1200 seconds.

The time we get from UNIX is in seconds? It’s not milliseconds as in JavaScript?
That could explain it perhaps…

6

yeah,the values i see in the attributes of the chromecast media_player entity are in seconds for media_position and datetime for updated_at.