Widget media_select used in MPD (mopidy) for playlists

[RaJeronimo]

Hi, first of all i really like your widgets! Thanks.

And this is not exactly an issue so i will try to explain my problem. My thought was that the widget media_select was for playlists. Because in MPD (mopidy) the source of the mediaplayer is used for the playlists (in my case Spotify). So i was Yeey! But it's not working like that. It's the source of the audio. bluetooth receiver etc. I get that now.

is it possible to change / add an simular widget especially for the source (playlist) of MPD ? I'm no programmer so it's difficult to change this myself. I can only explain the problems: When i open the dashboard the playlist is restarting. Because it's opening again the source value i think? When there is no playlist selected but just a song in an mopidy client it's not working because he needs a source of course to play.

Do you think this is possible to add?

Are there any other people using this for an MPD server?

greetz!

[gcosta74]

Hi,

can you post me the states of your mopidy media_player entity ?

It should be something similar to this:

{
  "volume_level": 0.63,
  "is_volume_muted": false,
  "source": "TV",
  "source_list": [
    "AirPlay",
    "Bluetooth",
    "MusicCast Link",
    "NET RADIO",
    "SERVER",
    "TUNER",
    "TV",
    "USB"
  ],
  "friendly_name": "Yamaha Receiver",
  "supported_features": 18828
}

[RaJeronimo]

Hi. It's different. The source_list includes all my spotify playlists. And that's perfect if I can use it. I now changed a widget of yours so it kinda works. But I'm no expert.

{ "volume_level": 0.2, "is_volume_muted": false, "media_content_id": "spotify:track:3ZbZPKPFMDsKE2pulMaLQq", "media_content_type": "music", "media_duration": "11", "media_title": "Silent Song", "media_artist": "Silent Song", "media_album_name": "Silent Song - Single", "source": "start (by 11276)", "source_list": [ "Favourites", "[Radio Streams]", "-- (by 112345)", "start (by 112345)", "Michael Jackson - Top Tracks (by michaeljackson)", "Hits March 2018 - Monthly Hits (By Jesper Hesseling - Meester Jesper) Top Songs (by 112921300)", "The War On Drugs 2017 (by )", "3voor12 #NIEUWEMUZIEK (by 3voor12)",`

It continues with all the playlists

[gcosta74]

Hi. It's different. The source_list includes all my spotify playlists. And that's perfect if I can use it. I now changed a widget of yours so it kinda works. But I'm no expert.

What did you do exactly ?

The widget calls the service media_player/select_source and maybe this will not fit for your playlists that will show as a source.

[biffter]

I have Mopidy setup and have it setup as a MPD in HA.

media_player:
- alias: 'Music Pi'
  platform: mpd
  name: 'Music Pi'
  host: 192.168.1.xxx

But when I add it to my dashboard, its seems to really quickly pull up the playlist’s as source select, but then they disappear before I can select them. If i manually start playing something on the mopidy interface, it plays for a few seconds, then stops, and switches off the media player. Its like the plugin is constantly polling the MPD server.

My dashboard setup is

your_media_select:
  widget_type: media_select
  entity: media_player.music_pi
  title: Kitchen Source
  title2: Your Subtitle

Any help would be very much appreciated, thank you in advance