remote mpv

[Dirk--]

Thank you for sharing!
Just managed to play media on a remote mpv machine:
socat TCP-LISTEN:6644,reuseaddr,fork UNIX-CONNECT:/tmp/mpvsocket (on remote host)
and
socat UNIX-LISTEN:/tmp/remote_mpvsocket,fork,reuseaddr,unlink-early,user=root,group=root,mode=770 TCP:192.168.99.171:6644 (inside HA docker-container)
Is this the most clever approach?
Playback of HA's media content works (delayed),
any ideas on playback of remote-host's media content?
Have a nice day, Dirk

[Dirk--]

answered myself second question, 'playback of remote-host's media content':
action: media_player.play_media
target:
entity_id: media_player.mpv
data:
media_content_id: /home/zechenwerkstatt/Public/bilder/RAG/
media_content_type: ""
metadata: {}

[oxan]

I didn't get around to putting it in the README yet, but you don't even need the socat in the HA container; the integration also supports connecting to a remote host directly:

media_player:
  - platform: mpv
    server:
      host: 192.168.99.171
      port: 6644

Other than that your setup is very similar to what I use.

[Dirk--]

Works like a charm, thanks for this hint!

My setup is sort of 'digital signage' in-venue https://zechenwerkstatt.de/ , firing up slideshows or camera-streams via mpv and through home-assistant.
mpv-startup: mpv --fs --idle --image-display-duration=5 --loop-playlist=inf --input-ipc-server=/tmp/mpvsocket

On my wish-list: Minimal playlist control

• media_next_track / Go forward in the playlist
• media_previous_track / Go backward in the playlist

[Dirk--]

here comes my minimal playlist support hack:

mpv.py

class MPVCommand(enum.StrEnum):
    [...]
    PLAYLIST_NEXT = 'playlist-next'
    PLAYLIST_PREVIOUS = 'playlist-prev'

media_player.py

class MpvEntity(MediaPlayerEntity):
    _attr_supported_features = (
        [...]
        MediaPlayerEntityFeature.NEXT_TRACK |
        MediaPlayerEntityFeature.PREVIOUS_TRACK
    )
    [...]
    async def async_media_next_track(self) -> None:
        await self._mpv.command(MPVCommand.PLAYLIST_NEXT)

    async def async_media_previous_track(self) -> None:
        await self._mpv.command(MPVCommand.PLAYLIST_PREVIOUS)

[oxan]

Thanks! As you might've spotted playlist support was on my todolist, this is a good start.

[Dirk--]

next issue: multiple-hosts
configuration.yaml:

media_player:
  - platform: mpv
    server:
      host: 192.168.99.170
      port: 6644
  - platform: mpv
    server:
      host: 192.168.99.171
      port: 6644

results in entities media_player.mpv and media_player.mpv_2
How do I assign a friendly name?
name: xxx is an invalid option ...

[oxan]

Yeah, it definitely needs some improvement to properly setup the entity, but I'm not really sure how to do that yet. I'll try to find some time to look at it this weekend.

[oxan]

I've pushed a change to support a name option. I'll finish up playlist support and a few other things sometime this or next week, and put out a new release then.

[oxan]

I've just released v0.2.0 with full playlist support (and the name option).