Home Assistant 2024.7.2 unavailable; Failed communicating with WiiM (UPnP

[victoroos]

hi all,

So I updated HA, but now I get a Failed communicating with WiiM (UPnP error from HA with the devices being unavailable. Any tips and knows why?

cheers Vic ps: beta is installed

[jaid33]

This issue? https://github.com/onlyoneme/home-assistant-custom-components-wiim/issues/22 The solution from GitIt-GotIt worked for me.

[hnuttin]

I have the same issue, also on the beta branch with the including fix provided in https://github.com/onlyoneme/home-assistant-custom-components-wiim/issues/22

I get these log statements every few minutes: 2024-07-19 14:08:19.919 WARNING (MainThread) [custom_components.wiim_custom.media_player] Failed communicating with WiiM (UPnP) 'KEF' at 192.168.0.231

And this results in a constant available/unavailable state in HA like seen here:

[andreaalloway]

It appears that the linkplay repo from nagyrobi https://github.com/nagyrobi/home-assistant-custom-components-linkplay appears to have solved this issue and that it now supports WiiM devices. I was able to convert to that integration instead of this one.

For my config files I've updated my WiiM entries to look like:

- platform: linkplay
  host: 192.168.#.#
  protocol: https
  name: WiiM Example
  sources:
    {
      'optical': 'Optical',
      'line-in': 'Analog',
      'bluetooth': 'Bluetooth',
    }
  uuid: 'FF98<REDACTED>'

[victoroos]

It appears that the linkplay repo from nagyrobi https://github.com/nagyrobi/home-assistant-custom-components-linkplay appears to have solved this issue and that it now supports WiiM devices. I was able to convert to that integration instead of this one.

For my config files I've updated my WiiM entries to look like:

- platform: linkplay
  host: 192.168.#.#
  protocol: https
  name: WiiM Example
  sources:
    {
      'optical': 'Optical',
      'line-in': 'Analog',
      'bluetooth': 'Bluetooth',
    }
  uuid: 'FF98<REDACTED>'

Aah yes that worked. Changed the config a bit (without the UUID) and voila. Thank you!

[hildebrau]

Ok, so my WiimPro should be detected by the latest HA, right? And what do I do if it isn't? I made sure this hacs component or the original link player one is not installed or configured.

If I manually try to configure the built in linkplayer in core it asks for my IP address. I enter in the IP from my WiiM app under network and it just rejects it and asks for the IP again. Not much help on that!

Did anyone else get it working? Just want to make sure I'm barking up the right tree here.

Thanks

[victoroos]

Ok, so my WiimPro should be detected by the latest HA, right? And what do I do if it isn't? I made sure this hacs component or the original link player one is not installed or configured.

If I manually try to configure the built in linkplayer in core it asks for my IP address. I enter in the IP from my WiiM app under network and it just rejects it and asks for the IP again. Not much help on that!

Did anyone else get it working? Just want to make sure I'm barking up the right tree here.

Thanks

Unfortunately same here. Not detected and IP isn't working

[hildebrau]

And, unfortunately, nothing is logged in the HA log file after adding the IP fails.

Unfortunately same here. Not detected and IP isn't working

[hildebrau]

Looks like my current issue is being tracked at https://github.com/Velleman/python-linkplay/issues/34 and some other issue #'s that one references. I guess we wait it out.

Or more directly, this seems to be the eventual fix: https://github.com/home-assistant/core/pull/124307

[nwithan8]

PR to fix this in Core was just merged, looks like it will come as part of the 2024.9.0 release on Sept. 4: https://github.com/home-assistant/core/pull/124307

EDIT: Can confirm, was able to add my WiiM Pro via IP address in the "LinkPlay" integration in Home Assistant 2024.9.0

[victoroos]

PR to fix this in Core was just merged, looks like it will come as part of the 2024.9.0 release on Sept. 4: home-assistant/core#124307

EDIT: Can confirm, was able to add my WiiM Pro via IP address in the "LinkPlay" integration in Home Assistant 2024.9.0

well yes but it still isn't recognized at all, as in,a s a player

[hildebrau]

well yes but it still isn't recognized at all, as in,a s a player

I'm curious what you were expecting.

My WiiM Pro shows up as a Chromecast destination and DLNA device on HA now.

I sure wish I could automate it to play a YTM playlist, though. Any ideas on how to do that?

[nwithan8]

PR to fix this in Core was just merged, looks like it will come as part of the 2024.9.0 release on Sept. 4: home-assistant/core#124307 EDIT: Can confirm, was able to add my WiiM Pro via IP address in the "LinkPlay" integration in Home Assistant 2024.9.0

well yes but it still isn't recognized at all, as in,a s a player

I'm also facing the same thing. WiiM was able to be added via LinkPlay, but it didn't make any entities or devices. Seems like it's a known issue: https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/125283

[victoroos]

well yes but it still isn't recognized at all, as in,a s a player

I'm curious what you were expecting.

My WiiM Pro shows up as a Chromecast destination and DLNA device on HA now.

I sure wish I could automate it to play a YTM playlist, though. Any ideas on how to do that?

I expect it to be seen as a media player. :)