Home Assistant Integration (via webhooks, MQTT, native, etc)

[Schluggi]

Summary

I use Home Assistant (HA) and would love to see some kind of integration. Especially a
Media Player Entity.

MQTT would be nice because of MQTT Auto-Discover. So mainly no configuration inside HA would be necessary.

Webhooks are more universal but you need a lot of configuration stuff on client/fladder side. For example the event (play, pause, started, stopped), method (POST, PUT, GET, etc), payload (templating would be nice), endpoint, etc.

Since both are standards, both are not specific for HA, but MQTT would be my favorite, because of the Auto-Discover feature and publishing of entities directly into HA.

Basic Example

Press play or pause and the status is directly pushed to the Fladder media player in Home Assistant. Also the cover, title, volume etc.
In my case I want to use it to control the light. Lights out when played, lights on when paused.

At the moment I do this via the Jellyfin integration in HA. But this not really suitable, because of a big delay between pause a movie and Jellyfin notice it.

Drawbacks

Nothing as far a I would guess.

Unresolved questions

Which kind of integration would be useful?

• Webhooks
• MQTT
• Native (via Home Assistant integration)

Implementation

• I would like to implement this myself!

[Darkmagister]

I have an HA server with the jellyfin integration, and with that I can get the status of the jellyfin sessions, I can then check the session status (idle, play, pause...) and I use that to turn on and off a light, that work very well for the official Android tv client, but unfortunately It seems that fladder doesn't update the status of the session to jellyfin, so HA will not received the pause status, it seems that play and stop work but not the pause, I think if it's possible to fix this a dedicated HA integration it's not necessary