Problem playing media with ROON

[Punisa1]

The problem

Hello, I have a problem playing media with integrated Roon.

This simple script throw "Unknown error" when I run it:

action: media_player.play_media target: entity_id: media_player.roon data: media_content_id: "mysong.mp3" media_content_type: "music"

Same script works great if I use a different player, for example Kodi. Also, I can control pause, next track etc. in Roon from HA, just not load the media... Tried many things, nothing helped (install, deinstall, different versions, local media, direct url media...) Both Roon and HA are on my Synology NAS. I checked logs, didn't find anything useful.

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2024.10.3

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

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What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant Container

Integration causing the issue

Roon

Link to integration documentation on our website

No response

Diagnostics information

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Example YAML snippet

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Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

No response

Additional information

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[pavoni]

Roon doesn't produce or usemedia_ids like many other players - so you can't use either a file name or a media id. What you want to play needs to be in the roon library - and you need to specify a roon path to it. This is described here https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/roon/

For example to play the album Harvest by Neil Young you should set media_content_id to Library/Artists/Neil Young/Harvest and to play BBC Radio 4 you would set media_content_id to My Live Radio/BBC Radio 4

I'm surprised you're not seeing a useful error in the HA logs, I'd expect the roon component to be telling you your media path is invalid.

If needed you can turn up the log level for the roon component and library as described here:

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/logger/

You will need.

    homeassistant.components.roon: debug
    roonapi: debug