Sanity check me on the multiroom_player entity

[secbitchris]

I have HA, Sonos, HACS, have a seemingly functional installation of mini-media-player. My goal is to put 3 sonos speakers into a group so I can control their audio as one. I eventually want to use this group in an automation on my HASPone device so I can use one volume slider to control all 3.

What am I doing wrong?

Here is my code.

I am presuming the entity of media_player.multiroom_player is some sort of built-in way of putting stuff into a group? Although it doesn't auto-populate when I manually type it. Is this what I have to have to make that happen or is there some other thing it has to be called?

• type: entities
  entities:
  • type: custom:mini-media-player
    entity: media_player.multiroom_player
    group: true
    source: icon
    info: short
    hide:
    volume: true
    power: true
  • type: custom:mini-media-player
    entity: media_player.studio_1
    group: true
    hide:
    controls: true
  • type: custom:mini-media-player
    entity: media_player.studio5
    group: true
    hide:
    controls: true
  • type: custom:mini-media-player
    entity: media_player.studioplay3
    group: true
    hide:
    controls: true

I get this:

Configuration errors detected:
No type provided.

[kalkih]

The initial dash (-) in - type: entities and you should be good.

The media_player.multiroom_player is not some built in entity, in the example from the readme it was a multiroom amplifier, with the outputs configured as media players.

Depending on what you want to achieve, one way would be:
Speaker group management setup e.g. with Sonos, check out this example. You could then ise the option sync_volume in the speaker group configuration in order to adjust the volume level of all grouped speakers with the volume slider.

[ZNicoZ]

With sync_volume all speakers are changed to the same volume when before one speaker was on 20% and another on 40%, the relation of volume between the speakers is lost. :(

[secbitchris]

Thanks! I also see helpers may give a way to do this too. Problem is, the latest update broke spotify and sonos ENTIRELY, so I am going to have to wait some weeks or months until HA fixes those.