Mini Media Player

A minimalistic yet customizable media player card for Home Assistant Lovelace UI.

Inspired by Custom UI: Mini media player and custom-lovelace.

Install

This card is available in HACS (Home Assistant Community Store)

Simple install

1. Download and copy mini-media-player-bundle.js from the latest release into your config/www directory.

2. Add a reference to mini-media-player-bundle.js inside your ui-lovelace.yaml.

resources:
  - url: /local/mini-media-player-bundle.js?v=1.2.2
    type: module

CLI install

1. Move into your config/www directory

2. Grab mini-media-player-bundle.js

$ wget https://github.com/kalkih/mini-media-player/releases/download/v1.2.2/mini-media-player-bundle.js

3. Add a reference to mini-media-player-bundle.js inside your ui-lovelace.yaml.

resources:
  - url: /local/mini-media-player-bundle.js?v=1.2.2
    type: module

(Optional) Add to custom updater

1. Make sure you've the custom_updater component installed and working.

2. Add a new reference under card_urls in your custom_updater configuration in configuration.yaml.

custom_updater:
  card_urls:
    - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kalkih/mini-media-player/master/tracker.json

Updating

1. Find your mini-media-player-bundle.js file in config/www or wherever you ended up storing it.

2. Replace the local file with the latest one attached in the latest release.

3. Add the new version number to the end of the cards reference url in your ui-lovelace.yaml like below.

resources:
  - url: /local/mini-media-player-bundle.js?v=1.2.2
    type: module

You may need to empty the browsers cache if you have problems loading the updated card.

Using the card

Options

Card options

| Name | Type | Default | Since | Description | |------|------|---------|-------|-------------| | type | string | required | v0.1 | custom:mini-media-player | entity | string | required | v0.1 | An entity_id from an entity within the media_player domain. | name | string | optional | v0.6 | Override the entities friendly name. | icon | string | optional | v0.1 | Specify a custom icon from any of the available mdi icons. | more_info | boolean | true | v0.1 | Enable the "more info" popup dialog when pressing on the card. | group | boolean | optional | v0.1 | Removes paddings, background color and box-shadow. | hide | object | optional | v1.0.0 | Manage visible UI elements, see hide object for available options. | artwork | string | default | v0.4 | cover to display current artwork in the card background, full-cover to display full artwork, none to hide artwork, full-cover-fit for full cover without cropping. | tts | object | optional | v1.0.0 | Show Text-To-Speech input, see TTS object for available options. | source | string | optional | v0.7 | Change source select appearance, icon for just an icon, full for the full source name. | sound_mode | string | optional | v1.1.2 | Change sound mode select appearance, icon for just an icon, full for the full sound mode name. | info | string | optional | v1.0.0 | Change how the media information is displayed, short to limit media information to one row, scroll to scroll overflowing media info. | volume_stateless | boolean | false | v0.6 | Swap out the volume slider for volume up & down buttons. | max_volume | number | optional | v0.8.2 | Specify the max vol limit of the volume slider (number between 1 - 100). | min_volume | number | optional | v1.1.2 | Specify the min vol limit of the volume slider (number between 1 - 100). | replace_mute | string | optional | v0.9.8 | Replace the mute button, available options are play, stop, next. | toggle_power | boolean | true | v0.8.9 | Set to false to change the power button behaviour to media_player.turn_on/media_player.turn_off. | idle_view | object | optional | v1.0.0 | Display a less cluttered view when idle, See Idle object for available options. | background | string | optional | v0.8.6 | Background image, specify the image url "/local/background-img.png" e.g. | speaker_group | object | optional | v1.0.0 | Speaker group management for supported platforms, see Speaker group object for available options. | shortcuts | object | optional | v1.0.0 | Media shortcuts in a list or as buttons, see Shortcut object for available options.

Idle object

| Name | Type | Default | Description | |------|------|---------|-------------| | when_idle | boolean | optional | Render the idle view when player state is idle. | when_paused | boolean | optional | Render the idle view when player state is paused | when_standby | boolean | optional | Render the idle view when player state is standby | after | string | optional | Specify a number (minutes) after which the card renders as idle (only supported on platforms exposing media_position_updated_at).

TTS object

| Name | Type | Default | Description | |------|------|---------|-------------| | platform | string | required | Specify TTS platform, e.g. google_translate or amazon_polly, alexa1 for "Alexa as Media Player", ga23 for use with Google Assistant Webserver or Assistant Relay, sonos2 for use with modified sonos_say script, webos4. | language | string | optional | The output language. | entity_id | string/list | optional | The entity_id of the desired output entity or a list of entity_id's, can also be all to broadcast to all entities. | volume | float | optional | Volume level of tts output (0 - 1), only supported by platform sonos. | type | string | optional | tts, announce or push, defaults to tts, only supported by platform alexa, more info here.

1 Does not support the language option.

2 Does not support language & entity_id options.

3 Requires a custom notify service named ga_broadcast, see example below.

4 Requires the card entity name to match the notify service name, if they don't match please specify the notify service name in the entity_id option.

# configuration.yaml
notify:
  - name: ga_broadcast
    platform: rest
    resource: http://[xxx.x.x.xxx]:5000/broadcast_message

Speaker group object

See Speaker group management for example usage.

| Name | Type | Default | Description | |------|------|---------|-------------| | entities | list | required | A list containing speaker entities of one of supported platforms, to enable group management of those speakers. | platform | string | 'sonos' | The media_player platform to control. sonos or yamaha_musiccast1. | sync_volume | boolean | optional | Keep volume Synchronize between grouped speakers. | expanded | boolean | optional | Make the speaker group list expanded by default. | show_group_count | boolean | true | Have the number of grouped speakers displayed (if any) in the card name.

1 Currently not yet available in Home Assistant, soon™

Speaker entity object

| Name | Type | Default | Description | |------|------|---------|-------------| | entity_id | string | required | The entity_id for the speaker entity. | name | string | required | A display name. | volume_offset | number | optional | Volume offset (0-100) when used with sync_volume.

Shortcuts object

See card with media shortcuts for example usage.

| Name | Type | Default | Description | |------|------|---------|-------------| | list | list | optional | A list of shortcut items to be presented as a list, see shortcut item object. | buttons | list | optional | A list of shortcut items to be presented as buttons. | hide_when_off | boolean | false | Hide the shortcuts while the entity is off. | columns | integer (1-5) | 2 | Specify the max number of buttons per row. | column_height | number | optional | Specify the column height in pixels. | label | string | shortcuts... | Specify a custom default label for the shortcut dropdown. | attribute | string | optional | Specify any attribute exposed by the media player entity. The attribute value (if exists) is compared with shortcut id's to distinguish selected/active shortcut1. | align_text | string | optional | Specify alignment of button icon/text left, right, center.

1 Examples, source for active source or sound_mode for active sound mode.

Shortcut item object

| Name | Type | Default | Description | |------|------|---------|-------------| | name | string | optional | A display name. | icon | string | optional | A display icon (any mdi icon). | type | string | required | Type of shortcut. A media type: music, tvshow, video, episode, channel, playlist e.g. or an action type: source, sound_mode, script or service. | id | string | required | The media identifier. The format of this is component dependent. For example, you can provide URLs to Sonos & Cast but only a playlist ID to iTunes & Spotify. A source/(sound mode) name can also be specified to change source/(sound mode), use together with type source/sound_mode. If type script specify the script name here or service specify the <domain>.<service>. | data | list | optional | Extra service payload1.

1 Only compatible with script & service shortcuts, useful for sending variables to script.

Hide object

| Name | Type | Default | Description | |------|------|---------|-------------| | name | boolean | false | The name. | icon | boolean | false | The entity icon. | info | boolean | false | The media information. | power | boolean | false | The power button. | source | boolean | false | The source select. | sound_mode | boolean | true | The sound_mode select. | controls | boolean | false | The media playback controls. | volume | boolean | false | The volume controls. | mute | boolean | false | The mute button. | progress | boolean | false | The progress bar. | runtime | boolean | true | The media runtime indicators. | artwork_border | boolean | true | The border of the default artwork picture. | power_state | boolean | true | Dynamic color of the power button to indicate on/off. | shuffle | boolean | true | The shuffle button (only for players with shuffle_set support).

Theme variables

The following variables are available and can be set in your theme to change the appearence of the card. Can be specified by color name, hexadecimal, rgb, rgba, hsl, hsla, basically anything supported by CSS.

| name | Default | Description | |------|---------|-------------| | mini-media-player-base-color | var(--primary-text-color) & var(--paper-item-icon-color) | The color of base text, icons & buttons | mini-media-player-accent-color | var(--accent-color) | The accent color of UI elements | mini-media-player-overlay-color | rgba(0,0,0,0.5) | The color of the background overlay | mini-media-player-overlay-base-color | white | The color of base text, icons & buttons while artwork cover is present | mini-media-player-overlay-accent-color | white | The accent color of UI elements while artwork cover is present | mini-media-player-media-cover-info-color | white | Color of the media information text while artwork cover is present

Example usage

Basic card

- type: custom:mini-media-player
  entity: media_player.kitchen_speakers

Compact card

Setting either volume and/or controls to true in the hide option object will render the player as a single row.

- type: custom:mini-media-player
  entity: media_player.example
  icon: mdi:spotify
  artwork: cover
  hide:
    volume: true
    source: true
    power_state: false

Card with media shortcuts

You can specify media shortcuts through the shortcuts option, either as a list or as buttons or why not both?

- entity: media_player.spotify
  type: custom:mini-media-player
  artwork: cover
  source: icon
  hide:
    volume: true
  shortcuts:
    columns: 4 # Max buttons per row
    buttons:
      # Start predefined playlist
      - icon: mdi:cat
        type: playlist
        id: spotify:user:spotify:playlist:37i9dQZF1DZ06evO2O09Hg
      # Change the source to bathroom
      - icon: mdi:dog
        type: source
        id: Bathroom
      # Trigger script
      - icon: mdi:dog
        type: script
        id: script.script_name
      ... # etc.

Grouped cards

Set the group option to true when nesting mini media player cards inside other cards that already have margins/paddings.

- type: entities
  entities:
    - type: custom:mini-media-player
      entity: media_player.multiroom_player
      group: true
      source: icon
      info: short
      hide:
        volume: true
        power: true
    - type: custom:mini-media-player
      entity: media_player.kitchen_speakers
      group: true
      hide:
        controls: true
    - type: custom:mini-media-player
      entity: media_player.bathroom_speakers
      group: true
      hide:
        controls: true
    - type: custom:mini-media-player
      entity: media_player.bedroom_speakers
      group: true
      hide:
        controls: true
    - type: custom:mini-media-player
      entity: media_player.patio_speakers
      group: true
      hide:
        controls: true

Stacked cards

By using vertical and horizontal stacks, you can achieve many different setups.

- type: horizontal-stack
  cards:
    - entity: media_player.tv_livingroom
      type: custom:mini-media-player
      info: short
      artwork: cover
      hide:
        mute: true
        icon: true
        power_state: false
    - entity: media_player.tv_bedroom
      type: custom:mini-media-player
      info: short
      artwork: cover
      hide:
        mute: true
        icon: true
        power_state: false
- type: horizontal-stack
  cards:
    - entity: media_player.cc_patio
      type: custom:mini-media-player
      hide:
        icon: true
    - entity: media_player.cc_kitchen
      type: custom:mini-media-player
      hide:
        icon: true
    - entity: media_player.cc_bath
      type: custom:mini-media-player
      hide:
        icon: true

Speaker group management

Specify all your speaker entities in a list under the option speaker_group -> entities. They obviously need to be of the same platform.

• The card does only allow changes to be made to groups where the entity of the card is the coordinator/master speaker.
• Checking a speakers in the list will make it join the group of the card entity. (media_player.sonos_office in the example below).
• Unchecking a speaker in the list will remove it from any group it's a part of.

- type: custom:mini-media-player
  entity: media_player.sonos_office
  hide:
    power: true
    icon: true
    source: true
  speaker_group:
    platform: sonos
    show_group_count: true
    entities:
      - entity_id: media_player.sonos_office
        name: Sonos Office
      - entity_id: media_player.sonos_livingroom
        name: Sonos Livingroom
      - entity_id: media_player.sonos_kitchen
        name: Sonos Kitchen
      - entity_id: media_player.sonos_bathroom
        name: Sonos Bathroom
      - entity_id: media_player.sonos_bedroom
        name: Sonos Bedroom

If you are planning to use the speaker_group option in several cards, creating a separate yaml file for the list is highly recommended, this will result in a less cluttered ui-lovelace.yaml and also make the list easier to manage and maintain. You then simply reference the file containing the list using entities: !include filename.yaml for every occurrence of entities in your ui-lovelace.yaml.

This is however only possible when you have lovelace mode set to yaml in your HA configuration, see Lovelace YAML mode for more info.

Development

If you plan to contribute back to this repo, please fork & create the PR against the dev branch.

Clone this repository into your config/www folder using git.

$ git clone https://github.com/kalkih/mini-media-player.git

Add a reference to the card in your ui-lovelace.yaml.

resources:
  - url: /local/mini-media-player/dist/mini-media-player-bundle.js
    type: module

Instructions

Requires nodejs & npm

1. Move into the mini-media-player repo, checkout the dev branch & install dependencies.

$ cd mini-media-player && git checkout dev && npm install

2. Make changes to the source

3. Build the source by running

$ npm run build

4. Refresh the browser to see changes

   Make sure cache is cleared or disabled

5. (Optional) Watch the source and automatically rebuild on save

$ npm run watch

The new mini-media-player-bundle.js will be build and ready inside /dist.

Getting errors?

Make sure you have javascript_version: latest in your configuration.yaml under frontend:.

Make sure you have the latest version of mini-media-player-bundle.js.

If you have issues after updating the card, try clearing your browsers cache or restart Home Assistant.

If you are getting "Custom element doesn't exist: mini-media-player" or running older browsers try replacing type: module with type: js in your resource reference, like below.

resources:
  - url: ...
    type: js

Inspiration

• @ciotlosm - custom-lovelace
• @c727 - Custom UI: Mini media player

License

This project is under the MIT license.