Make a automation to start online radio stream (tune-in)

[casperjjordaan]

1st all, thank you very much for this awesome new integration!

I want to start a automation at 6am to play my (already signed in and working) tune-in stream

I don't know what to select setting up the automation. Automation is not a problem for me to setup, I am just having difficulty with what to select.

Please help.

Note: my Music Assistant does already work with my Google Cast speakers (18 of them through my home) and plays tune-in when I manually start it.

Warm regards from a very exited South African HA user!
Thank you!

[marcelveldt]

Within the automation editor you can select 'Play media' as 'Action type'.
Select the media player(s) you want to include in the automation and press the large 'Pick media' button below.
From there you can select Music Assistant and pick the media of your choice, such as the radio station.

[casperjjordaan]

Thank you very very much! Worked like a charm.

[marcelveldt]

One thing I forgot to say and is related to your other issue report/question... Make sure that you select the "mass_" prefixed entity of your players here. Although addressing the player directly will work, your other request of sending a TTS broadcast will only work on the "mass" player.

[pjdreger3]

Question about this. When I add the action Play Media and select a player then select the Pick Media should I see Music Assistant as a Media Source ? Right now I am seeing this :

Do I have to do something to have Music Assistant show up a Source

[pjdreger3]

Update - I have added the add on and then tried to add the integration but I get this error when I try to add the integration

[OzGav]

Wrong integration version. Make sure you have show betas enabled

[kongo09]

I don't get any selection choice but only an input field asking for a Media ID.

Goal is to play a radio station from the radio browser. How do I find out about its Media ID?

[kongo09]

Nothing appears. I would expect an empty search to return all radio stations but that also doesn't work. Search generally does work, but not for radio

[kongo09]

And playing straight works for my station ffn but not for my station energy:

[OzGav]

You can't just type energy you have to use the full station name. I was actually asking about using those words with the search. I believe I have recreated this behaviour though so I will ask the devs about it.

[kongo09]

Using the full station name didn't work either:

Which probably brings us back to the original question: where can I find the appropriate media ID? Shouldn't it be shown in the interface somewhere?

[OzGav]

As I mentioned on Discord and is shown in the docs you just use the track, artist, album, playlist or station name. If this is ambiguous then you can further define your desired item as shown in the section How do I get the URI? which is in the How Do I FAQ. Additionally, as I said above you can use the mass.search service call to find the exact URI.

In relation to the above you can open an issue about that error if you can find some info in the logs. Its possibly due to the punctutation as you said radio ffn works. Does the Hamburg station work?