Configurable idle timeout - fixes not being able to resume via voice command

[Davis8483]

After 30 seconds of being paused, media players will switch to an idle state. This makes it impossible to unpause via a voice command as the player must be in a paused state to allow for the unpause intent to run. Instead, it would be nice for the timeout to be configurable. 0 for never and anything above that would be in seconds.

[eric10k93]

I just ran into this issue, but it doesn't appear to be JUST related to Music Assistant. I am using Google Cast devices and they have a similar timeout. I'm not sure just changing the timeout in MA would solve the problem.

[Davis8483]

good to know, I'll close this issue and reopen the one in core

[Davis8483]

Reopened discussion in home-assistant/core#136135

[BjornPython]

any fix or temporary work around for this?

[Davis8483]

@BjornPython
I was able to work around this by providing a script for the LLM to use instead

sequence:
  - action: media_player.media_play
    metadata: {}
    data: {}
    target:
      entity_id: "{{ media_player_id }}"
fields:
  media_player_id:
    selector:
      entity: {}
    name: Media Player Id
    description: >-
      The entity id of the media player you would like to resume. Ex:
      media_player.living_room_speaker
alias: Unpause Media Player
description: >-
  Ignore the built in HassMediaUnpause intent as it is broken and use this
  script instead.

^{posted on both threads, sorry for the double reply}