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Home Assistant integration for jriver
mattkhan:
I can't say I'm an expert in HA frontend but it does seem like you need to use a custom card for anything non trivial, I guess there might be some list card around somewhere which would make this easier to implement
if there's anything useful that can be added to the integration then I'm happy to add it, something like your playing now & playlist stuff sounds useful so I can look at doing that at some point (no particular help to you as you have the rest command already there but easier for future people)
sjhilton:
--- Quote from: mattkhan on October 09, 2024, 02:07:03 pm ---I can't say I'm an expert in HA frontend but it does seem like you need to use a custom card for anything non trivial, I guess there might be some list card around somewhere which would make this easier to implement
if there's anything useful that can be added to the integration then I'm happy to add it, something like your playing now & playlist stuff sounds useful so I can look at doing that at some point (no particular help to you as you have the rest command already there but easier for future people)
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Thanks matt - I completely agree. Happy to test anything if that would assist.
One other thought for consideration. I realised over the last couple of days that because I had been connecting the integration to one of my clients (my main hifi), the other clients (my tv) and my main server were losing track of what was playing on that client. I've now connected the integration to the main server directly, which works much better. This may be obvious, but it might be worthwhile a note in the readme on this just to say the integration should be connected to your main server (if you have a server/client setup) and if you connect the integration to the client this may cause issues. This makes setting zones as devices in the integration almost essential.
mattkhan:
--- Quote from: sjhilton on October 12, 2024, 07:05:14 pm ---One other thought for consideration. I realised over the last couple of days that because I had been connecting the integration to one of my clients (my main hifi), the other clients (my tv) and my main server were losing track of what was playing on that client. I've now connected the integration to the main server directly, which works much better. This may be obvious, but it might be worthwhile a note in the readme on this just to say the integration should be connected to your main server (if you have a server/client setup) and if you connect the integration to the client this may cause issues. This makes setting zones as devices in the integration almost essential.
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I suspect I use it in the way you describe (integration connects to clients rather than the server) and haven't noticed any issues though I perhaps I use it differently to you. What sort of issues do you get? what does "server losing track of the client" mean exactly?
sjhilton:
--- Quote from: mattkhan on October 13, 2024, 04:25:06 am ---I suspect I use it in the way you describe (integration connects to clients rather than the server) and haven't noticed any issues though I perhaps I use it differently to you. What sort of issues do you get? what does "server losing track of the client" mean exactly?
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The main one is that if I'm playing say an album on one client (the hifi) this is reflected on another client (the TV, say in theater view) and then when I go to play the next album the TV will be stuck on the last track unless I restart MC on the TV and it will pick up playback again. The playback activity may or may not be reflected on the server when I look at that.
On reflection I'm thinking that the issues I am experiencing may be more to do with my MC media network setup. I've made a separate post about this in the 'Media Network' part of the forum. It seems that my server and clients are playing back using DLNA rather than Media Network for some reason. I might need a clean install soon.
Edit: after all of that I decided to revert to connecting the integration to the client as it is more stable (even with the issues mentioned above).
mattkhan:
there's a new version of this released, just to address some point of order that HA logs that I could see in my setup to do with how it reacts when a particular MC instance is offline at startup. I don't see how this will make any actual difference in practice but it makes the log complaint go away.
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