Sometimes an entity just won’t update at all.
Right now I’m watching a YouTube video and the media_position is stuck at 4 seconds.
If I pause the video it gets updated, but if I use the homeassistant.update_entity service nothing happens.
Is this service limited to some entity types or what?
It would be nice to actually have that feature ‘update entity’.
Or is there something I have missed?
Depends on the device. The device may only push a state out. In those cases, update wouldn’t do anything because we can’t request info.
I see…
The odd thing is that it seems rather random.
I forgot to mention but it’s a Chromecast.
Sometimes it updates every 15 seconds. Sometimes it’s less and not the same interval each time.
And now it didn’t update once during the 12 minutes I watched the video.
Same Chromecast different play services though.
I can’t really say much about that. I just know update doesn’t always work on every entity.
I just noticed something, the Lovelace card updates but not the states in developer tools.
Each time there is a commercial break it updates, but during the “play” states does not update.
But Lovelace does.
I took this screenshot just before a commercial break was due.
How can Lovelace card know the media_position?
The devtools might have disconnected, make sure you disable the option to disconnect after 5 minutes.
Where is that setting?
But as soon as I press pause the media_position updates.
I don’t think that is the issue.
It’s under your profile icon.
Didn’t make any difference.
Am I the only one who this happens too?
