I have both an Nvidia Shield, and a Sony Android TV.
I have them added to Home Assistant with the official Android ADB integration (can’t remember the exact name).
I have media player cards for them.
The media player cards show a still image of the screen on each Android TV device, this is amazing!
What kinda sucks though, is that everytime a new screengrab is fetched every few seconds, the image in the media player disappears for a second or two, while it loads the new one.
It really spoils the look of my wall tablet, and is quite distracting.
I have seen this reported in the GitHub before, but I think it was never addressed as may have been an off topic reply to a separate issue.
I have seen others that have experienced this issue, so I know it’s not just a problem with my set up.
It’s not just the official media player card that this bug affects, I have seen it with the custom mini media player card too.
I can provide a screen capture video of the issue if that helps.
I have the same issue with the built-in media player card, the artwork reloads every 10 seconds and takes half a second to re appear making the interface repeatively flash. I made an animated .gif to show the issue… It would be nice if the refreshed artwork would fade over the old image!
Just wanted to post an update on a quick solution, in case this is useful for anyone.
So I did a bunch of updates today…
Took HA from v0.112.x -> v0.114.4
I also updated all my HACS integrations and frontend components.
It seems that the Mini Media Player (https://github.com/kalkih/mini-media-player) custom component has implemented a fix/workaround for the image flashing. Using this component there is now a fade between image captures. HA’s built-in media control component still suffers from the flashing, so i’m moving to the Mini Media Player for now.
Looks like the fix was a style adjustment: https://github.com/kalkih/mini-media-player/pull/402/files. I tried looking through the frontend code to find a place to apply a similar change but I am braindead when it comes to JS/TS so hopefully someone else who has the right experience sees this and can make the corresponding change
From a quick cursory glance, it seems that the mini media player was already keeping the previous image in the DOM when loading a new image, making a CSS based transition a trivial change to the existing code.
I’ve no idea whether the home assistant media control card follows the same principle, but it’s certainly one solution.
If I already had a HA Dev environment set up, I’d be up for putting together a Pull Request, but I can’t spare the time to set one up right now. Would probably be a trivial task to implement a solution for someone that is already set up to code on the project.
There would need to be a bit more of a change. We planned on eventually creating a controller for the media card. So that if the image changed to undefined we would wait a second before switching unless the new image came in. I don’t think there is a good css solution in our card
any progress on this? I’m ont he latest release and still have the flashing (disapearing, reapearing) images. Is there a workaround / non official addon I can use as mediacard which has a fix?
