Unique url for play queue

[sanderttttt]

Hi,

Awesome work! I cast via catt Music Asssistant to my Google Nest Hub Max and works great.

It would be even greater if I could also cast directly the play queue, but for that it requires unique url. Eg 192.168.x.x:8095/#/queue (so following 192.168.x.x:8095/#/albums, 192.168.x.x:8095/#/artists, as already available today).

So desired would be like shown below:

Keen to hear if thats possible.

Regards,

[Njur]

Did you find a solution. When I cast dashboard with Music Assistant to Nest Hub Max it just gives error.

[marcelveldt]

Maybe you need to define more accurately what exactly you miss/want because I don't understand it ?
Dont use technical definitions but describe the desired outcome.

Do you want to display the MA interface on your nest hub display ?

[Njur]

Thanks and yes absolutely wants to display MA interface on Nest Hub Display. Also created a topic but no one could help.
https://github.com/orgs/music-assistant/discussions/3852

Have tried everything I could think of. Have Cast to Nest Hub blueprint and everything else work but not MA.

[sanderttttt]

@Njur - for me it works using https://github.com/jrobichaud/ha-catt-service

action: catt_service.cast_site
metadata: {}
data:
device_id:
url: http://192.168.x.x:8095/

See also https://blog.fuzzymistborn.com/homeassistant-and-catt-cast-all-the-things/ to set things up in the configuration.yaml

With this working, I ideally would cast directly the play queue url, however there is no such url, so cant cast this directly...

[Njur]

I'm using this blueprint and the responstime is quick. When I try CATT is seems much slower:
alias: Cast til Nest Hub Max
description: ""
triggers:

• entity_id: media_player.kokken
  for:
  hours: 0
  minutes: 0
  seconds: 5
  to: "off"
  trigger: state
• entity_id: media_player.kokken
  for:
  hours: 0
  minutes: 0
  seconds: 5
  from: playing
  trigger: state
• minutes: /9
  trigger: time_pattern
• minutes: "0"
  trigger: time_pattern
  actions:
• choose:
  • conditions:
    • condition: or
      conditions:
      • condition: state
        entity_id: media_player.kokken
        state: "off"
      • condition: state
        entity_id: media_player.kokken
        state: paused
        for:
        hours: 0
        minutes: 0
        seconds: 5
        milliseconds: 0
        sequence:
    • data:
      is_volume_muted: true
      entity_id: media_player.kokken
      action: media_player.volume_mute
    • data:
      entity_id: media_player.kokken
      action: media_player.turn_off
    • delay:
      seconds: 5
    • data:
      entity_id: media_player.kokken
      action: media_player.turn_on
    • data:
      view_path: "0"
      dashboard_path: dashboard-mushroom
      entity_id: media_player.kokken
      action: cast.show_lovelace_view
    • data:
      view_path: "0"
      dashboard_path: dashboard-mushroom
      entity_id: media_player.kokken
      action: cast.show_lovelace_view
    • delay:
      seconds: 5
    • data:
      is_volume_muted: false
      entity_id: media_player.kokken
      action: media_player.volume_mute
      mode: single

[sanderttttt]

Ok, I dont cast Home Assistant dashboards actually using CATT, so cant help with that. And for Music Asssistant just casting web server front url (so eg http://192.168.x.x:8095) and using the native Music Asssitant frontend UI works fine for me. You could consider that, as it works fine for me..

[sanderttttt]

@marcelveldt

Would you be willing to introduce the play queue url? Or perhaps while at it, introduce more unique urls to utilize in this setup?

[OzGav]

Feature requests are prioritised based on the votes they receive or if a dev decides it is something that interests them. This has been mentioned before but there are no plans to work on it at the moment. But you never know who might come along to implement it so watch this thread for any updates

[Njur]

@sanderttttt @marcelveldt The problem for me is CATT is a long delay compared to Home Assistant Cast and that it will often go automatically into picture frame after a while, what I have read. Home Assistant Cast with the blueprint worked very good with the exception of Music Assistant.