Adding "Now playing" data a la spotify/sonos

[ianhyzy]

This is awesome integration, thank you. If it's possible I would love to be able to pull the cover of the audiobook I'm listening to, like how Spotify or Sonos show the album art when an entity is playing.

[wolffshots]

I’m not actually sure how to do this but I’ll do some digging when I have some time! Would be cool to add

[sdholden28]

This is probably not the most efficient way to do this, but I've accomplished this through a couple of rest sensors and a template sensor for each user. I have person cards on dashboards and whenever a user is using audiobookshelf or spotify, they get headphones on their avatar and the book-author or title-track scrolls across the bottom of their person card in marquee fashion.

#Rest sensor to get all online users from ABS via api
  - platform: rest
    name: ABS Online Users
    resource: http://(ABS SERVER:PORT)/api/users/online?token=(ROOT USER API TOKEN)
    value_template: "{{ value_json.usersOnline | length }}"
    json_attributes:
      - usersOnline
    scan_interval: 15

#Rest sensor to get listenings sessions info for all users from ABS via api    
  - platform: rest
    name: ABS User Listening Sessions
    resource: http://(ABS SERVER:PORT)/api/users/(USER ID)/listening-sessions?token=(ROOT USER API TOKEN)
    value_template: "{{ value_json.sessions | length }}"
    json_attributes:
      - sessions
    scan_interval: 15

# AudioBookShelf active session sensors
    - name: "ABS user Active Session"
      state: >
          {% set user_id = '(USER ID)' %}
          {% set users_online = state_attr('sensor.abs_online_users', 'usersOnline') %}
          {% set sessions = state_attr('sensor.abs_user_listening_sessions', 'sessions') %}

          {% if users_online is not none and sessions is not none %}
            {% set user_online = users_online | selectattr('id', 'equalto', user_id) | list %}

            {% if user_online | length > 0 %}
              {% if sessions | length > 0 %}
                {% set session = sessions[0] %}

                {% if session.mediaMetadata and session.mediaMetadata.authors %}
                  📖 "{{ session.mediaMetadata.title }}" by {{ session.mediaMetadata.authors[0].name }}
                {% else %}
                  Active session with missing media metadata
                {% endif %}
              {% else %}
                No sessions found
              {% endif %}
            {% else %}
              Not Listening
            {% endif %}
          {% else %}
            No data
          {% endif %}
      unique_id: "abs_user_active_session"

# Sensor for name of media being played by user
    - name: "user Media Playing"
      state: >
          {% set abs_state = states('sensor.abs_user_active_session') %}
          {% set spotify_state = states('media_player.spotify_user') %}
          {% set spotify_title = state_attr('media_player.spotify_user', 'media_title') %}
          {% set spotify_artist = state_attr('media_player.spotify_user', 'media_artist') %}
          {% if abs_state != 'Not Listening' and abs_state != 'unknown' %}
             {{ abs_state }}
          {% elif spotify_state == 'playing' and spotify_title != none and spotify_artist != none %}
            🎵 {{ spotify_title }} - {{ spotify_artist }}
          {% else %}
            Not Listening
          {% endif %}
      unique_id: "user_media_playing"

Sorry for the poor quality gif conversion, but you get the idea.

[wolffshots]

Thanks @sdholden28, that will be a great help! Sorry that I haven't gotten this added sooner, I've been trying to redo the code to be generally better but am not a Python wizard so haven't made much progress