Homeassistant Google Home/Nest/TV music centre （Chromecast)
My another uncompleted HA Integration with more features
上周买了两个Google Nest Mini 与 Chromecast，在此之前，从来没发现Google设备如此方便，可以在多个音箱上同时播放音乐，能让家里无死角充满温馨的音乐。于是在我自己的HA系统里寻找是否有现成简单的组件来进行随机播放音乐，以及音乐列表功能。 结果发现多是YouTube与Spotify在线播放，在国内这非常不方便，VPN基本都有总流量，用本地音乐更合适，于是 HA国外讨论区找了和提问都没有发现现成的，那么，随手做一个吧。
Homemade music centre via Chromecast with node-red in Homeassistant.
No delay, no buffering. (no converting, send music file to device directly & automatically)
Simply And Easy.
- Ordered playing / Shuffling music / Stop playing to Google Home / Nest by toggle the music_time button.
- Ordered playing / Shuffling music / Stop playing by telling Google Home / Nest to turn on/off "Music Time" (google_assistant linked with HA required).
- Stop the music playing (e.g "Hey Google, Stop") to media_player will stop shuffling music automatically.
- Loads the music folder into playlist automatically.
- Play the next song by simply calling service media_player.media_stop.
- Music can be played with different playlists.
- Favorite songs can be added or delete by press the Favorite button.
- Added favorite button that can make it look likes a rich functional media player.
- Supports ID3 of mp3 file to media player displaying.
- Media player has a background if the media file contains an image.
- Local media playing will stop automatically if you have voice-controlled like News or play online music.
- You need to have node-red installed in your HA.
- Set your media folder as following or customized and configure it in node-red later.
- You might need to have HACS installed to show customized buttons in UI (optional).
homeassistant:
media_dirs:
music: /config/media
Your local folder should looks like this:
| config/
| -- media/
| -- | mp3/
| -- | -- | a.mp3
| -- | -- | d.ogg
| -- | -- | sub-folder/
| -- | -- | -- |oh-yes.mp3
| -- | -- | -- |oh-no.mp3
| -- | favorite_mp3/
| -- | -- | b.mp3
| -- | -- | c.mp3
| -- | your_customized_name_folder/
| -- | -- | your_customized_name_folder2/
| -- | -- | -- | d.mp3
| -- | -- | -- | e.mp3
| -- | -- | f.mp3
| -- | your_customized_name_folder3/
| -- | -- | g.mp3
balabala...
I mounted the folder (/config/media) [rw] from my SMB server, as you could easily create this folder if disk space is not a problem.
By default, please have mp3 and favorite_mp3 two folders created.
- Put/Merge the input sections into your configurations (reboot HA to take effect)
input_boolean:
favorite_song:
name: Favorite Song
icon: mdi:heart
music_time:
name: Music Time
icon: mdi:music
delete_song:
name: Delete Song
icon: mdi:delete
shuffle_music:
name: Shuffle Music
icon: mdi:shuffle-variant
reload_playlist:
name: Reload Playlist
icon: mdi:reload
input_select:
music_playlist:
name: Music Playlist
options:
- Mp3
- My Favorite-
Looks like as below:
Name Entity ID Type Options Icon Favorite Song input_boolean.favorite_song Toggle hass:heart Music Playlist input_select.music_playlist Dropdown Mp3;My Favorite(2 items) Music Time input_boolean.music_time Toggle hass:music Delete Song input_boolean.delete_song Toggle hass:delete Shuffle Music input_boolean.shuffle_music Toggle mdi:shuffle-variant Reload Playlist input_boolean.reload_playlist Toggle mdi:reload
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Install node-red palettes
Name Version node-red-contrib-fs 1.4.1 pass node-red-contrib-media-tags 0.0.6 pass node-red-contrib-fs-ops 1.6.0 pass node-red-contrib-random-item 1.0.3 pass -
Parse the node-red flow to your HA node-red.
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Add buttons to your Lovelace page.
Install "button-card" in HACS - Frontend
Install "bslider-entity-row" in HACS - Frontend
Create and parse the UI code / buttons in your UI.
Control Buttons
type: horizontal-stack cards: - type: button tap_action: action: toggle entity: input_boolean.music_time show_name: false icon: hass:music show_state: true icon_height: 50px - type: button tap_action: action: toggle entity: input_boolean.delete_song - type: custom:button-card tap_action: action: call-service service: media_player.media_stop service_data: entity_id: media_player.home_group icon: hass:skip-forward name: Next Song size: 80px - type: button tap_action: action: toggle entity: input_boolean.shuffle_music
Option Buttons
type: horizontal-stack cards: - type: entity entity: input_select.music_playlist - type: custom:button-card tap_action: action: toggle entity: input_boolean.favorite_song show_name: false show_icon: true size: 90px - type: button tap_action: action: toggle entity: input_boolean.reload_playlist
Volume Control
type: entities entities: - type: 'custom:slider-entity-row' entity: media_player.home_group
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Edit the "PLAYLIST mapping" in node-red.
Var Meaning one_media_dirs_in_ha_conf For Robert and someone who has different mounting point in media_dirs playlist_mapping Mapping the input_select.music_playlist items to your local folder, you could ignore this after v5 version and use the "reload playlist" button. msg.album_cover_temp_file Music album cover image tempuary file msg.album_cover_temp_url The URL of album_cover_temp_file, DOMAIN could be ip address. file_exts_filter file types msg.fix_ha_media_player Whether fixes the issue of HA media_player msg.rich_info_support Whether read the metadata in music file push to media_player instead of filenames. msg.reset_ordered_index_once_stop_playing Whether reset to 1st song on next playing if you turned the music off (non-shuffle mode) -
Replace the media_player.home_group to your media player ID or group ID.
- Make sure you have all buttons on your localace.
- Clicks the "Reload Playlist" button will have your "Music Playlist" drop down list filled with all subfolders.
- Attachs "Debug" node and changes the "Debug" node output to "complete msg object" to see the details in right side bar of any node that might have problem (in node-red), by doing this you might need to a bit familar with node-red.