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Make MC compatible with Home Assistant
bob:
You all intrigued me enough to install HA. I chose to use a virtualbox container on my main linux server.
It looks pretty useful. The stuff it found on my network, like solar panels, Sonos, etc was interesting and being able to add some of the others like my thermostat was nice.
It's not like any of the data isn't available from the individual apps though. The Solar for example, it's interesting to see the data in that presentation but I get a way better representation of that data in the Enphase app.
The thermostat is controllable but way more options in the TCC app.
For me so far the main thing is to see all of the data in one place. I am not interested in voice control.
As for MC, my Id renderers added as DLNA devices (as someone pointed out above) are not able to stop and restart from the HA controls. Volume and Mute work fine. There shouldn't be a problem here, other DLNA controllers can do this fine with MC renderers. Not sure where that issue is.
mattkhan:
Whether an individual finds HA useful or not is not really relevant to this thread, it's only a question of can I access MC in it (for people who do find it useful).
The problem is you can barely do anything with it, you can't control playback, you can't unmute, you can't control theatre view using it, there's no obvious way to react to things MC is doing, you can't change playlists, you can change volume and that's about it. The integration is so minimal it might as well not exist.
The info re playback is in the linked post, it was reported long ago.
eve:
--- Quote from: bob on January 06, 2024, 11:28:45 am ---
It's not like any of the data isn't available from the individual apps though. The Solar for example, it's interesting to see the data in that presentation but I get a way better representation of that data in the Enphase app.
The thermostat is controllable but way more options in the TCC app.
For me so far the main thing is to see all of the data in one place. I am not interested in voice control.
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That's pretty much why I use HA, it's really useful to get things talking to each other. The lack of control options for specific devices is unfortunate but it happens (either the 'fault' of HA or just the MFR not exposing those features). When we're looking at "smart home"-y devices, I don't even consider the provided 'app' an option. It would be utter insanity to have an app for all of these things, thus the 'openness' of a device does matter to me.
This is quite off topic though. Glad you found HA interesting!
eve:
--- Quote from: bob on January 06, 2024, 11:28:45 am ---As for MC, my Id renderers added as DLNA devices (as someone pointed out above) are not able to stop and restart from the HA controls. Volume and Mute work fine. There shouldn't be a problem here, other DLNA controllers can do this fine with MC renderers. Not sure where that issue is.
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The issue has been around for ages (apparently offhandedly mentioned by me in a thread here, probably when I started trying to make JRiver work with HA a little nicer). It relates to the AVTransport.xml that JRiver serves up for DLNA. There's non standard arguments in the 'play' command I guess? Anyways, I just abandoned using DLNA for the integration I needed.
bob:
--- Quote from: eve on January 06, 2024, 12:58:33 pm ---The issue has been around for ages (apparently offhandedly mentioned by me in a thread here, probably when I started trying to make JRiver work with HA a little nicer). It relates to the AVTransport.xml that JRiver serves up for DLNA. There's non standard arguments in the 'play' command I guess? Anyways, I just abandoned using DLNA for the integration I needed.
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It doesn't expose a Pause function for MC's renderer. I'm not sure why specifically. Bubble as well as others do work with MC.
Rygel does work with HA though so I might look at it's AVTransport.xml
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