Allow notification media player controls

[timkoers]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
No it is not related to a problem, I was just wondering about how I could integrate contextual locations/rooms into Home Assistant.
In order to realise this, a few other things are needed, one of them is this feature request.
It would be nice if a notify service call could make an media player notification show up on a device, and with that, specifying which media_player component should handle the play/pause back/next controls and which media_player component should handle the volume controls (which I think should replace the thumbs on the image below)

Describe the solution you'd like
HomeAssistant should integrate the mediaplayer controls as seen in the image below, but then for specific media_player entities, one used for playback control and another one used for volume control.

Describe alternatives you've considered, if any
None.

Additional context

[dshokouhi]

Not quite a notification but #1005 would allow you to create home screen widgets, one for each media player.

[JBassett]

Guide on how it could be done: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/media-controls. The PR that @dshokouhi mentioned has the service calls needed to hook up to the interface. The entities could be selected in the settings menus but I'm not sure how we would resurface the media player after it was dismissed.

[timkoers]

Guide on how it could be done: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/media-controls. The PR that @dshokouhi mentioned has the service calls needed to hook up to the interface. The entities could be selected in the settings menus

I'd like to have it settings menu independend, so you provide the media_player entities as the data that will get send together with notification. Just like a picture notification, only now, a mediaplayer notification.

but I'm not sure how we would resurface the media player after it was dismissed.

You mean that when you swipe the notification away, how it comes back? Well, in my mind that should be done by a HomeAssistant automation, which pushes the notification to the device.

[JBassett]

Using the notification system is an interesting idea. That seems like a decent way to remove the need for more settings and a good way to resurface the media player.

[timkoers]

The only thing, is that when a user is streaming from the phone, to the media player, a media player notification for the same context gets shown twice.
So I think it's good to have somekind of feedback to HomeAssistant if a media player notification is already being shown (from any app).

[ncodee]

Has this been implemented, or being considered?

[dshokouhi]

Has this been implemented, or being considered?

the enhancement request is still open so it has not been implemented yet, anyone who wants to implement it can pick it up

[stale]

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[TheWhiteGandalf]

Any chance this will ever be implemented? I want this so badly

[dnestico]

Same it would be a game changer if possible

[eyal1izhaki]

Would be awesome

[matthewdias]

In lieu of native android media controls, I created an automation for this using regular notifications. You may need to tweak based on the behavior of your media player

alias: Desk Speakers Media Remote
description: ""
trigger:
  - id: media_on
    platform: state
    entity_id:
      - media_player.desk_speakers
    from:
      - "off"
      - standby
      - idle
    to:
      - "on"
      - paused
      - playing
      - buffering
  - id: media_pause
    platform: state
    entity_id:
      - media_player.desk_speakers
    from:
      - playing
      - buffering
    to: paused
  - id: media_off
    platform: state
    entity_id:
      - media_player.desk_speakers
    to:
      - "off"
      - standby
      - idle
  - id: media_play
    platform: state
    entity_id:
      - media_player.desk_speakers
    from: paused
    to:
      - playing
      - buffering
  - platform: event
    event_type: mobile_app_notification_action
    event_data:
      action: PLAY_PAUSE_DESK_SPEAKERS
    id: action_play_pause
  - platform: event
    event_type: mobile_app_notification_action
    event_data:
      action: NEXT_DESK_SPEAKERS
    id: action_next
  - platform: event
    event_type: mobile_app_notification_action
    event_data:
      action: TURN_OFF_DESK_SPEAKERS
    id: action_turn_off
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - media_player.desk_speakers
    attribute: media_title
    id: media_change
condition: []
action:
  - choose:
      - conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id:
              - media_on
              - media_play
        sequence:
          - service: notify.mobile_app_pixel_8
            metadata: {}
            data:
              title: >
                {{ state_attr('media_player.desk_speakers','media_title') }} -
                {{ state_attr('media_player.desk_speakers','media_artist') }}
              message: >
                Desk Speakers -
                {{state_attr('media_player.desk_speakers','source')}}
              data:
                persistent: true
                sticky: true
                tag: desk_speakers_media
                notification_icon: mdi:speaker
                channel: Media
                importance: max
                image: >
                  {{ state_attr('media_player.desk_speakers','entity_picture')
                  }}
                actions:
                  - action: PLAY_PAUSE_DESK_SPEAKERS
                    title: Play/Pause
                  - action: NEXT_DESK_SPEAKERS
                    title: Next
                  - action: TURN_OFF_DESK_SPEAKERS
                    title: Stop
      - conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id:
              - media_off
        sequence:
          - service: notify.mobile_app_pixel_8
            metadata: {}
            data:
              message: clear_notification
              data:
                tag: desk_speakers_media
      - conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id:
              - action_play_pause
        sequence:
          - service: media_player.media_play_pause
            target:
              entity_id:
                - media_player.desk_speakers
            data: {}
      - conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id:
              - action_next
        sequence:
          - service: media_player.media_next_track
            target:
              entity_id:
                - media_player.desk_speakers
            data: {}
      - conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id:
              - action_turn_off
        sequence:
          - service: media_player.media_stop
            target:
              entity_id:
                - media_player.desk_speakers
            data: {}
      - conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id:
              - media_pause
          - condition: not
            conditions:
              - condition: template
                value_template: >-
                  {{ state_attr('media_player.desk_speakers','media_title') is
                  none }}
        sequence:
          - service: notify.mobile_app_pixel_8
            metadata: {}
            data:
              title: >
                {{ state_attr('media_player.desk_speakers','media_title') }} -
                {{ state_attr('media_player.desk_speakers','media_artist') }}
              message: >
                Desk Speakers -
                {{state_attr('media_player.desk_speakers','source')}}
              data:
                persistent: true
                sticky: true
                tag: desk_speakers_media
                notification_icon: mdi:speaker-pause
                channel: Media
                importance: max
                image: >
                  {{ state_attr('media_player.desk_speakers','entity_picture')
                  }}
                actions:
                  - action: PLAY_PAUSE_DESK_SPEAKERS
                    title: Play
                  - action: NEXT_DESK_SPEAKERS
                    title: Next
                  - action: TURN_OFF_DESK_SPEAKERS
                    title: Stop
      - conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id:
              - media_change
          - condition: not
            conditions:
              - condition: template
                value_template: >-
                  {{ state_attr('media_player.desk_speakers','media_title') is
                  none }}
        sequence:
          - service: notify.mobile_app_pixel_8
            metadata: {}
            data:
              title: >
                {{ state_attr('media_player.desk_speakers','media_title') }} -
                {{ state_attr('media_player.desk_speakers','media_artist') }}
              message: >
                Desk Speakers -
                {{state_attr('media_player.desk_speakers','source')}}
              data:
                persistent: true
                sticky: true
                tag: desk_speakers_media
                notification_icon: mdi:speaker
                channel: Media
                importance: max
                image: >
                  {{ state_attr('media_player.desk_speakers','entity_picture')
                  }}
                actions:
                  - action: PLAY_PAUSE_DESK_SPEAKERS
                    title: Play/Pause
                  - action: NEXT_DESK_SPEAKERS
                    title: Next
                  - action: TURN_OFF_DESK_SPEAKERS
                    title: Stop
mode: queued
max: 10