Revisit our HomeAssistant Integration

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Revisit our HomeAssistant Integration #652

Closed rtertiaer closed 2 weeks ago

rtertiaer commented 5 months ago

We have a good initial rendition of a HomeAssistant integration donated by our community. We should probably revisit this integration and make it more officially supported.

This ticket is a bit of a placeholder for some of that work. Some ideas are sketched out here; other needs exist around continued testing, making it robust, etc.

rtertiaer commented 5 months ago

We could definitely spruce up the HomeAssistant plugin interaction with HomeKit.

linknum23 commented 5 months ago

Single file/uri playback uses our announcement feature, it should really allocate and use a source
zones and groups of zones have entities but how do you use them? It is not immediately obvious
test how to use this in LMS mode, several users have reported this is very useful
we need to add this as a pluigin to HACS (and later HA itself). Right now the documentation says were a HACS plugin but it really needs to be manually installed
the underlying AmpliPi client, pyamplipi, probably needs some small updates for changes in our API

rtertiaer commented 3 months ago

can homeassistant do dynamic grouping of zones?

rtertiaer commented 3 months ago

some helpful links:

@mjustian will take a look at this plugin, assess how it could be improved, and start these tasks.

linknum23 commented 3 months ago

For better integration with amplipi we may need to maintain a fork of this with extra amplipi functionality: https://github.com/kalkih/mini-media-player
The media player has a good readme on how to install the development version of the media player. Our plugin requires similar steps right now.

rtertiaer commented 2 weeks ago

I think it's reasonable to call this complete now, yeah?

mjustian commented 2 weeks ago

Yeah