Playlist coming back wrong/powered off unpause not working

[msknight]

Towards the end, the playlist is coming back wrong and appears to be in a powered off state, rather than having the track loaded and "paused" as it used to. (this is Squeezelite running on a Pi)

The result is that rather than being returned to the correct position (and the variable being passed to the seek command is correct) it is playing from nearly the beginning.

I have noticed that when the queue is transferred back, the player doesn't seem to know what it's current track is... until it receives a play command... so the seek command (which actually starts playing as well as seeking position) doesn't actually seek any more.

An extra... when I pause the player it goes blank and into "power off" after about 30 seconds, which also puts it into a similar position... so "unpause" won't work, because it's been powered off and the "pause" button is no longer available on the media player.

It never used to do this behaviour until the recent updates.

sequence:
  - variables:
      player: media_player.officeplayer
      dummyplayer: media_player.office_home_assistant_media_player_2
      is_playing: "{{ states(player) }}"
      volume_level: "{{ state_attr(player, 'volume_level') | float(default=1.0) }}"
  - action: media_player.media_pause
    metadata: {}
    target:
      entity_id: "{{ player }}"
    data: {}
  - target:
      entity_id: "{{ player }}"
    action: media_player.media_pause
    data: {}
    enabled: true
  - if:
      - condition: template
        value_template: >
          {{ player == 'media_player.officeplayer' and
          is_state('switch.teac_ai_301da', 'off') }}
    then:
      - target:
          entity_id:
            - switch.teac_ai_301da
        action: switch.turn_on
  - delay:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 2
      milliseconds: 0
  - variables:
      media_position: "{{ state_attr(player, 'media_position') | float(0) }}"
  - target:
      entity_id: "{{ dummyplayer }}"
    data:
      source_player: "{{ player }}"
    action: music_assistant.transfer_queue
  - target:
      entity_id: "{{ dummyplayer }}"
    action: media_player.media_pause
    data: {}
    enabled: true
  - action: media_player.volume_set
    metadata: {}
    target:
      entity_id: "{{ player }}"
    data:
      volume_level: 1
  - target:
      entity_id: "{{ player }}"
    data:
      media:
        media_content_id: >-
          http://as-hls-ww-live.akamaized.net/pool_55057080/live/ww/bbc_radio_fourfm/bbc_radio_fourfm.isml/bbc_radio_fourfm-audio=96000.norewind.m3u8
        media_content_type: R
    action: media_player.play_media
  - delay:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 3
      seconds: 0
      milliseconds: 0
  - target:
      entity_id: "{{ player }}"
    action: media_player.clear_playlist
  - target:
      entity_id: "{{ player }}"
    data:
      source_player: "{{ dummyplayer }}"
    action: music_assistant.transfer_queue
  - target:
      entity_id: "{{ player }}"
    data:
      volume_level: 0
    action: media_player.volume_set
  - alias: Get current queue
    action: music_assistant.get_queue
    data:
      entity_id: "{{ player }}"
    response_variable: queue_info
  - variables:
      q_items: "{{ queue_info[player]['items'] | int(0) }}"
  - if:
      - condition: template
        value_template: "{{ q_items > 0 }}"
    then:
      - delay: "00:00:02"
      - if:
          - condition: template
            value_template: "{{ is_playing == 'playing' }}"
        then:
          - action: media_player.media_seek
            target:
              entity_id: "{{ player }}"
            data:
              seek_position: "{{ media_position | float(0) }}"
          - action: media_player.media_play
            metadata: {}
            target:
              entity_id: "{{ player }}"
            data: {}
          - delay: "00:00:02"
          - action: media_player.media_play
            metadata: {}
            target:
              entity_id: "{{ player }}"
            data: {}
        else:
          - action: media_player.media_seek
            target:
              entity_id: "{{ player }}"
            data:
              seek_position: "{{ media_position | float(0) }}"
          - action: media_player.media_pause
            metadata: {}
            target:
              entity_id: "{{ player }}"
            data: {}
  - target:
      entity_id: "{{ player }}"
    data:
      volume_level: "{{ volume_level }}"
    action: media_player.volume_set
    enabled: true
alias: Inject Radio 4 News into Office Player Queue
description: ""
mode: restart

[OzGav]

What about starting to play first and then doing the seek? Also you can try setting the power control to fake in the player settings.

[msknight]

There was another update yesterday. The player is no longer turning itself off automatically and the current track is staying displayed... so it looks like something changed in the update. I'll keep an eye on it. Incidentally, I don't seem to be able to "power on" the media player through Yaml. Says the player was not supported. Yet it did respond to the "power button" on the media player GUI. So... I guess we'll see how it goes.