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kalkih / mini-media-player

Minimalistic media card for Home Assistant Lovelace UI
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Feature Request: Customize Power Button Default Service #420

Open sira87 opened 4 years ago

sira87 commented 4 years ago

Hi, first, you did a wonderful job on this card and I love it so much! I use it to control my Sky Q, my Samsung TV and my Apple TV.

Speaking of the latter, as you probably know the power button of your card won't work with it, since it needs a remote.send_command service calls to power on/off.

It would be nice if we could replace the default behaviour of the power button to accomodate media players that needs particular services/scripts/automations to power on/off, like the Apple TV does.

Thank you again for your wonderful work and to have taken the time to read this!

kalkih commented 4 years ago

Hello, thanks for the kind words!

The Universal Media Player integration is perfect for these use-cases. Simply create a universal media player based on your device and override the turn_on / turn_off with service calls, then use that newly created entity in your Lovelace UI.

Let me know if this solution suits your needs.

sira87 commented 4 years ago

Hi! Thank you for your quick reply. I did as you said and I managed to obtain the result I wanted, sort of.

The biggest problem here is how the Apple TV reports his state, which is idle both when the device is in standby/off state, and when powered on but waiting for input the menu, which of course is unfortunate.

Due to this behaviour I can't turn off the ATV via Universal Media Player turn_off (which calls a remote.send_command service) if the device is idling in the menu. For what Universal Media Player knows the device is actually off, not on (since it's reporting idle state even when in the menu), and it sends the turn_on command instead when trying to turn it off. I can, however, turn it off when the device is in playing or paused state, and that is what I cared about the most.

Anyway, I'll live with it! Thank you again for your suggestion. Have a nice day!

Sonusss commented 3 years ago

I have the same request. I use mainly Linkplay devices which do not support ON/OFF (maybe, but mine not) Beside of that I use Sonoff MQTT switches to spare on energy payload and turn ON/OFF the whole multimedia bundle

So having a way to specify device/service for Powering ON/OFF would be a Plus