[FEATURE] Switching to "current playing" media player not working with Sonos

[Dielee]

Hello,

first, thanks for this great card!
So, I assume that the multi mediaplayer card switches to the current "playing" media player, according to this description, right ?:

If yes, this isn't working with sonos players, if not, this will be a feature request.

State of a playing sonos player:

playing

Attributes of a playing sonos player:

source_list:
  - Line-in
  - TV
group_members:
  - media_player.buro_native_sonos
volume_level: 0.6
is_volume_muted: false
media_content_id: >-
  x-sonos-vli:RINCON_347E5C029E8301400:2,spotify:49534f7146828ce179b925404f0c0015
media_content_type: music
media_duration: 203
media_position: 0
media_position_updated_at: "2025-11-11T14:57:47.881606+00:00"
media_title: Stardust
media_artist: Sound Rush
media_album_name: Stardust
source: Spotify Connect
shuffle: false
repeat: "off"
queue_size: 1
device_class: speaker
entity_picture: >-
  /api/media_player_proxy/media_player.buro_native_sonos?token=5eb031b3337754257710fcfed9ec846e83dd13e2767b65693dc9df7b6e727603&cache=7f8a4f57b641b043
friendly_name: Büro
supported_features: 4127295

[antontanderup]

Can you post your card config yaml?

[antontanderup]

Just to be clear that function only runs when the card is first loaded. It will not change the active player of an already mounted card. That is by design. If it did it would be pretty hard to change to an inactive player and start playback, if another player is started in the meantime.

So the way it is meant to work is: card mounts and the looks at the main entity, if it is playing it selects it. If it is not playing it looks through the other players and selects the first one that is playing. This process only runs when the card loads and never again.

[Dielee]

Ah alright, I thought this will run if some of the media players change to "playing".

[Dielee]

But... this would be a nice feature

[antontanderup]

Do you have any ideas on how to prevent the card from stealing player focus? Because thats the main reason it only does it once.

[Dielee]

What do you mean with stealing player focus ? If someone selected a media player manual before ?

[antontanderup]

Yes so the issue is when you have multiple users of the same home.
User 1 changes player focus to player X in order to select and play some music.
User 2 starts playback on player Y.
User 1's card now switches focus to player Y. User 1 now has to change focus back to player X again before they can browse and start playback.

[antontanderup]

This was the very real issue in my house when developing the multi card, as i had initially made it just as you wanted 😅.

[Dielee]

Yes, i know whats the problem... May it is possible to introduce a "manual overwrite" mode ?
If someone changed the player local it will stay there for X seconds. If the selected player after X seconds is playing, nothing happens. If not, the first playing player will be shown.

[Dielee]

Are there any updates?

[antontanderup]

I must admit this slipped my mind i got back to working after new years. I'll take a look at this thread and see if it's a quick thing to do.

[Dielee]

Ah alright. No stress!

[antontanderup]

It turned out to not be a big thing. Should be fixed on latest beta: https://github.com/antontanderup/mediocre-hass-media-player-cards/releases/tag/v0.29.0-beta.5

[Dielee]

Nice! Will try today!