Switch Scenes depending on media state (Beta)

clempat · December 20, 2020, 9:47am

Hello there,

I did a blueprint where you can attach a media_player to listen and changes the scene depending on the state.

This Blueprint take care of:

Won’t do anything if no lights in the main scene (playing scene) are “on”
Will save the lights (playing scene) states when media_player switch on and turn this scene on if you did not define a scene for the other states
You can say which Source you want to ignore (for example I did for Spotify)

Still to do:

[ ] Add delay and sources to delay
[ ] Tests with others scene than only for playing

Tested with:

AndroidTV

Blueprint

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Or import this Blueprint by using the YAML code URL:

github.com

clempat/home-assistant-config/blob/a1da722f017727dbab047004bb3c0787d2d9ca9b/blueprints/automation/clempat/media_scene_switcher.yaml

blueprint:
  name: Scene switcher when media is playing
  description: |
    This allow you to change a scene when it is playing, paused or stopped.
    There is the possibility to excludes apps
    The scene trigger only when at least one light of the scene is on
  domain: automation

  input:
    media_player:
      name: Media Player
      description: Media Player to track
      selector:
        entity:
          domain: media_player
    app_to_exclude:
      name: Apps to exclude
      default: ""
      description: |
        Liste of App to exclude (ex: Spotify,Google Cast). This is optional

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Any feedback are welcome.

Nover · February 28, 2021, 10:52pm

Hi!

So I tried it, but I failed to make it work. I get the following error message in the log console:

Blueprint Scene switcher when media is playing generated invalid automation with inputs OrderedDict([('media_player', 'media_player.android_tv'), ('app_to_exclude', 'YouTube,Spotify,Google Cast')]): required key not provided @ data['action']. Got None required key not provided @ data['trigger']. Got None
Blueprint Scene switcher when media is playing generated invalid automation with inputs OrderedDict([('media_player', 'media_player.android_tv'), ('app_to_exclude', 'Spotify,YouTube,Google Cast')]): required key not provided @ data['action']. Got None required key not provided @ data['trigger']. Got None
Blueprint Scene switcher when media is playing generated invalid automation with inputs OrderedDict([('media_player', 'media_player.android_tv')]): required key not provided @ data['action']. Got None required key not provided @ data['trigger']. Got None
Blueprint Scene switcher when media is playing generated invalid automation with inputs OrderedDict([('media_player', 'media_player.google_home')]): required key not provided @ data['action']. Got None required key not provided @ data['trigger']. Got None

It looks like the “Action” is missing. In fact, in the UI where I import it, there is no such field about the action. Is it missing from the configuration? I’m not used to Blueprints :X

EDIT:
M’kay, I found something. If the blueprint is imported using the link of the community.home-assistant.io but if the Github link is used, it works.