Hello,
I’m using HomeAssistant with a Shelly Wall Display. I try to show the roon display on the Shelly Wall Display without success. The WallDisplay retrievs the roon web display by this URL http://IPadrOfRoonServer:9330/display/ but this is not recognised by the roon control program.
The HomeAssistant package is installed on the wall display.
How to implemet this?
I’ve moved your post into the Tinkering category of the forum, where folks with Home Assistant expertise generally hang out. You’re more likely to get a response here.
I expect the roon url display depends on some browser features - it maybe that whatever is available in the Shelly display lacks what roon depends on.
As an alternative you could perhaps use my Roon / HA integration and then use the HA media player to display what you want.
The standard HA media player card is pretty nice - but if you want something more custom take a look at the mini media player, to get more control over the display.
Hi Greg, thank you very much for your answer and many thanks for your work (mini media player).
I have attached a screen shot, which compares the the two possibilites to show media data. The upper ons is from your mini media player (option: artwork full-cover-fit) and the roon display.
I find that roon display is more appealing (my opinion). Maybe I’ve missing some options, to achive a better layout. Is the picture of the Band/Artist available as metadata for mini player, or is this hidden from roon?
There are a lot of options. The following gave me a large version of the album cover:
type: custom: mini-media-player
artwork: full- cover
Full details here
Hi Greg, thanks for this github link, but 'm alredy aware of it and tried these options.
MiniPlayer shows the cover-picture. The roon display shows the cover as a small thumbnail and show the picture of the artists (pls. see pictures below). What I want to achive is, that the wall display shows a combination of the artist-picture and the cover-picture as thumbnail.
Maybe the artist picture can be shown as backbround image and your miniplayer with option ‘material’ is stacked on to it. But I don’t know, to retrieve the artist picture from the roon server. I already did a portscan on my roon server and there are a lot of opne ports, but I’m not able to retrieve the artist picture. I have no manual of the API.
Starting to run out of ideas. My two remaining thoughts were:-
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Use two mini-media-players - get one to display the artist - and they other to show the cover art - and hide all the controls on the artist one.
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Experiment with other ways to getting the image, there is a discussion about this here:-
Getting the image/art from media_player/androidtv as a generic camera - Development - Home Assistant Community
How to access the artist image? I only have the cover image with the option: artwork: full-cover-fit
I incorrectly remembered HA media players displaying artist artwork - but I don’t think they do. In fact I’m not even sure the Roon API can return the artist image.
And looks like trying to use the Roon display inside HA issue has come up before - and is an http/https security issue that is hard to fix (although there is a code idea here that someone attempted).
So I’m now out of suggestions.