ZHA - Philips Hue Tap Switch Media Controls (RDM002)

[gTunes]

Important Note: RMD002 support is added to the November 2024 release of Home Assistant. This blueprint will not work with earlier versions.

This blueprint enables simple control of a media player using a Philips Hue Tap Dial (RDM002) control. In addition to controlling a media player, you can provide custom automations for long press and long release as well as single, double, triple, quadruple, and quintuple presses of the controller buttons that aren’t pre-configured for media control.

I’ve made another blueprint which allows for full customization without assuming a media player. That blueprint can be found here: ZHA - Philips Hue Tap Switch Custom Controls (RDM002)

How To:

• Install the blueprint
• Select the your RDM002 controller and the “Media Player” you’d like to control. This can be any “Media Player” device which includes Sonos, Roon, and many others
• Button 1 will now act as play/pause. Button 3 will act as “Previous Track”. Button 4 will act as “Next Track”. The rotating dial will control volume
• The dial will do velocity-sensitive volume control based on your speed of rotation. You can configure this precisely using the blueprint - detailed instructions are provided within the blueprint itself
• Provide any custom automations you want for additional single, double, triple, and quadruple button presses

This is an image of the blueprint’s UI for configuring volume controls:

This is how the blueprint supports configuring custom actions. This is for “Button 2” for which all custom actions are available. Buttons 1, 2, and 4 don’t have options for short presses since those are dedicated to Play/Pause, Previous Track, and Next Track:

Blueprint code is available at this gist.

[take5]

Hi

Huge fan of this blueprint!
Thanks a lot!

I am using it with spotify and several grouped Denon/HEOS speakers.

I noticed the following:
My spotify media player remains unresponsive after the button 1 short-press if it is in “idle” state. Music does not play.

Available media_player attributes in “idle” state:

As a workaround I added the following condition to the blueprint, which sets the player’s state to “paused”.
(I inserted that condition right after the definition of the variables.)

if:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: media_player.spotify_take_5
    state: "idle"
then:
  target:
    entity_id: media_player.spotify_take_5
  data:
    source: MySpeakerGroup
  action: media_player.select_source

(I am a home assistant newbie, so there might be more elegant solutions.)

In the “paused” state, media-related attributes and a source are available and music starts playing.

Issue might be similar to this:

Spotify Integration and Media Player Card - No Active Source

If you could add the option to select a default speaker group for cases where “source” is available because of the player’s idle state, that would be great!

[gTunes]

Thanks for this feedback! I’m traveling now and can’t look at this - I’ll take a look when I’m back home in a week or so. Thanks again!