Mini Media Player

A minimalistic yet customizable media player card for Home Assistant Lovelace UI.

Inspired by Custom UI: Mini media player and custom-lovelace.

Install

This card is available in HACS (Home Assistant Community Store)

Simple install

Storage mode (default)

1. Download and copy mini-media-player-bundle.js from the latest release into your config/www directory.
2. Go to Sidebar -> Settings -> Dashboards -> Menu (top right corner) -> Resources.
3. Click on + ADD RESOURCE.
4. Type /local/mini-media-player-bundle.js?v=1.16.5 below URL.
5. Choose JavaScript Module below Resource Type.
6. Accept.

YAML mode

1. Download and copy mini-media-player-bundle.js from the latest release into your config/www directory.

2. Add a reference to mini-media-player-bundle.js inside your configuration.yaml or through the Home Assistant UI from the resource tab.

lovelace:
  resources:
    - url: /local/mini-media-player-bundle.js?v=1.16.5
      type: module

CLI install

1. Move into your config/www directory

2. Grab mini-media-player-bundle.js

$ wget https://github.com/kalkih/mini-media-player/releases/download/v1.16.5/mini-media-player-bundle.js

3. Add a reference to mini-media-player-bundle.js inside your configuration.yaml or through the Home Assistant UI from the resource tab.

lovelace:
  resources:
    - url: /local/mini-media-player-bundle.js?v=1.16.5
      type: module

Updating

1. Find your mini-media-player-bundle.js file in config/www or wherever you ended up storing it.

2. Replace the local file with the latest one attached in the latest release.

3. Add the new version number to the end of the cards reference url in your configuration.yaml (YAML mode) or through the Home Assistant UI - Sidebar -> Settings -> Dashboards -> Menu (top right corner) -> Resources (Storage mode).

lovelace:
  resources:
    - url: /local/mini-media-player-bundle.js?v=1.16.5
      type: module

You may need to empty the browsers cache if you have problems loading the updated card.

Using the card

Options

Card options

¹ Only supported on entities with volume_level attribute.

Idle object

TTS object

¹ Does not support the language option.

² Does not support language & entity_id options.

³ Requires a custom notify service named ga_broadcast, see example below.

# configuration.yaml
notify:
  - name: ga_broadcast
    platform: rest
    resource: http://[xxx.x.x.xxx]:5000/broadcast_message

⁴ Requires the card entity name to match the notify service name, if they don't match please specify the notify service name in the entity_id option.

⁵ Specify service & service_data under the data option, specify message_field to use message for the service.

type: custom:mini-media-player
entity: media_player.xiaoai_speaker
tts:
  platform: service
  data:
    service: xiaomi_miot.intelligent_speaker
    service_data:
      execute: true
      silent: true
    message_field: text

Speaker group object

See Speaker group management for example usage.

Supported platforms

• sonos
• soundtouch
• musiccast
• squeezebox¹
• bluesound¹
• snapcast¹
• linkplay²
• media_player³
• heos

¹ All features are not yet supported.

² Requires custom component for sound devices based on Linkplay chipset, available in HACS.

³ HomeAssistant added join/unjoin services to the media_player. Future official integrations will implement these services (which are slightly different from the ones, which are already supported by this card) instead of implementing them in their own domain.

Speaker entity object

Shortcuts object

See card with media shortcuts for example usage.

¹ Examples, source for active source or sound_mode for active sound mode.

Shortcut item object

¹ Only compatible with script & service shortcuts, useful for sending variables to script.

Action object options

Hide object

Theme variables

The following variables are available and can be set in your theme to change the appearence of the card. Can be specified by color name, hexadecimal, rgb, rgba, hsl, hsla, basically anything supported by CSS.

Example usage

Basic card

type: custom:mini-media-player
entity: media_player.kitchen_speakers

Compact card

Setting either volume and/or controls to true in the hide option object will render the player as a single row.

type: custom:mini-media-player
entity: media_player.example
icon: mdi:spotify
artwork: cover
hide:
  volume: true
  source: true
  power_state: false

Card with media shortcuts

You can specify media shortcuts through the shortcuts option, either as a list or as buttons or why not both?

- entity: media_player.spotify
  type: custom:mini-media-player
  artwork: cover
  source: icon
  hide:
    volume: true
  shortcuts:
    columns: 4 # Max buttons per row
    buttons:
      # Start predefined playlist
      - icon: mdi:cat
        type: playlist
        id: spotify:user:XXXXXXX:playlist:37i9dQZF1DZ06evO2O09Hg # Where XXXXXXX is your User ID
      # Change the source to bathroom
      - icon: mdi:dog
        type: source
        id: Bathroom
      # Trigger script
      - icon: mdi:dog
        type: script
        id: script.script_name
      # Trigger custom service
      - name: Crooners Playlist
        type: service
        id: spotcast.start
        data:
          entity_id: media_player.googlehome1234
          uri: spotify:playlist:37i9dQZF1DX9XiAcF7t1s5

      ... # etc.

Tip: If you don't have Sonos, but want just a bit more control over playlists and so, a simple solution is to use the type: service-option, to trigger thespotcast.start-service.

Remember to add the required data, for spotcast to work. Also, kindly note that the spotcast custom component is required, for this to work. It's available in HACS.

Grouped cards

Set the group option to true when nesting mini media player cards inside other cards that already have margins/paddings.

type: entities
entities:
  - type: custom:mini-media-player
    entity: media_player.multiroom_player
    group: true
    source: icon
    info: short
    hide:
      volume: true
      power: true
  - type: custom:mini-media-player
    entity: media_player.kitchen_speakers
    group: true
    hide:
      controls: true
  - type: custom:mini-media-player
    entity: media_player.bathroom_speakers
    group: true
    hide:
      controls: true
  - type: custom:mini-media-player
    entity: media_player.bedroom_speakers
    group: true
    hide:
      controls: true
  - type: custom:mini-media-player
    entity: media_player.patio_speakers
    group: true
    hide:
      controls: true

Stacked cards

By using vertical and horizontal stacks, you can achieve many different setups.

- type: horizontal-stack
  cards:
    - entity: media_player.tv_livingroom
      type: custom:mini-media-player
      info: short
      artwork: cover
      hide:
        mute: true
        icon: true
        power_state: false
    - entity: media_player.tv_bedroom
      type: custom:mini-media-player
      info: short
      artwork: cover
      hide:
        mute: true
        icon: true
        power_state: false
- type: horizontal-stack
  cards:
    - entity: media_player.cc_patio
      type: custom:mini-media-player
      hide:
        icon: true
    - entity: media_player.cc_kitchen
      type: custom:mini-media-player
      hide:
        icon: true
    - entity: media_player.cc_bath
      type: custom:mini-media-player
      hide:
        icon: true

Speaker group management

Specify all your speaker entities in a list under the option speaker_group -> entities. They obviously need to be of the same platform.

• The card does only allow changes to be made to groups where the entity of the card is the coordinator/master speaker.
• Checking a speakers in the list will make it join the group of the card entity. (media_player.sonos_office in the example below).
• Unchecking a speaker in the list will remove it from any group it's a part of.

type: custom:mini-media-player
entity: media_player.sonos_office
hide:
  power: true
  icon: true
  source: true
speaker_group:
  platform: sonos
  show_group_count: true
  entities:
    - entity_id: media_player.sonos_office
      name: Sonos Office
    - entity_id: media_player.sonos_livingroom
      name: Sonos Livingroom
    - entity_id: media_player.sonos_kitchen
      name: Sonos Kitchen
    - entity_id: media_player.sonos_bathroom
      name: Sonos Bathroom
    - entity_id: media_player.sonos_bedroom
      name: Sonos Bedroom

If you are planning to use the speaker_group option in several cards, creating a separate yaml file for the list is highly recommended, this will result in a less cluttered ui-lovelace.yaml and also make the list easier to manage and maintain. You then simply reference the file containing the list using entities: !include filename.yaml for every occurrence of entities in your ui-lovelace.yaml.

This is however only possible when you have lovelace mode set to yaml in your HA configuration, see Lovelace YAML mode for more info.

Development

If you plan to contribute back to this repo, please fork & create the PR against the dev branch.

Clone this repository into your config/www folder using git.

$ git clone https://github.com/kalkih/mini-media-player.git

Add a reference to the card in your ui-lovelace.yaml.

resources:
  - url: /local/mini-media-player/dist/mini-media-player-bundle.js
    type: module

Instructions

Requires nodejs & npm

1. Move into the mini-media-player repo, checkout the dev branch & install dependencies.

$ cd mini-media-player && git checkout dev && npm install

2. Make changes to the source

3. Build the source by running

$ npm run build

4. Refresh the browser to see changes

   Make sure cache is cleared or disabled

5. (Optional) Watch the source and automatically rebuild on save

$ npm run watch

The new mini-media-player-bundle.js will be build and ready inside /dist.

Getting errors?

Make sure you have javascript_version: latest in your configuration.yaml under frontend:.

Make sure you have the latest version of mini-media-player-bundle.js.

If you have issues after updating the card, try clearing your browsers cache or restart Home Assistant.

If you are getting "Custom element doesn't exist: mini-media-player" or running older browsers try replacing type: module with type: js in your resource reference, like below.

resources:
  - url: ...
    type: js

Inspiration

• @ciotlosm - custom-lovelace
• @c727 - Custom UI: Mini media player

License

This project is under the MIT license.