Media player

In Norway, many have an Easter tradition to listen to a radio quiz called “Påskelabyrinten”. This radio quiz has been on since 1987. We can’t miss out on this tradition, so why not use Home Assistant to automatically send us a reminder and turn it on for us.

With Home Assistant 2022.3 this has gotten much easier.

Easy automation for this is to use time as a trigger. Not any fancier to just check the time, and start this automation some seconds before it starts.

The next thing we have to insert in the automation is the action. The first thing is a notification. Just a simple push message to the cell phone with information that the show is starting.

Now it is time to turn on the speakers and start to stream the correct radio channel. This is pretty easy in HA after 2022.3. Choose “play media” in the action type, select the media player you want to use, and click on the big + sign to choose media.

The complete automation – happy easter

alias: Påskelabyrinten
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: time
    at: '09:59:45'
condition: []
action:
  - service: notify.mobile_app_lars_sin_iphone_11
    data:
      title: Påskelabyrinten
      message: Nå starter Påskelabyrinten
  - service: media_player.play_media
    target:
      entity_id: media_player.stua
    data:
      media_content_id: media-source://radio_browser/657f3d22-08f0-11e9-a80b-52543be04c81
      media_content_type: audio/mpeg
    metadata:
      title: NRK P1 Trøndelag
      thumbnail: https://radio.nrk.no//dist/favicons/favicon.ico
      media_class: music
      children_media_class: null
      navigateIds:
        - {}
        - media_content_type: app
          media_content_id: media-source://radio_browser
        - media_content_type: music
          media_content_id: media-source://radio_browser/country/NO
mode: single

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