Media player source name is ugly

[rchl]

The media source name shown on media player tile is "ugly" (non-descriptive). At least for the component that I'm using to control my Sony Bravia TV (https://github.com/gerard33/sony-bravia-ha).

Let me show that in pictures:

This is how the tile looks like with any of the 4 HDMI sources selected (it shows same for all):

As you can see, it shows "extInput:hdmi" which is neither precise enough (shows same for all 4 hdmis) nor clean.

This is the list of sources shown on clicking the source name:

That looks nice and correct.

Here is the state snapshot of the entity:

{
    "entity_id": "media_player.mybraviatv",
    "state": "on",
    "attributes": {
        "volume_level": 0.1,
        "is_volume_muted": false,
        "media_content_id": "HDMI 4",
        "media_content_type": "tvshow",
        "media_title": "HDMI 4",
        "source": "extInput:hdmi",
        "source_list": [
            "HDMI 1",
            "HDMI 2",
            "HDMI 3/ARC",
            "HDMI 4",
            "AV 1",
            "AV 2/Component"
        ],
        "friendly_name": "MyBraviaTV",
        "supported_features": 23997,
    },
    "last_changed": "2018-07-17T21:46:06.771413+00:00",
    "last_updated": "2018-07-17T21:47:04.259447+00:00"
}

As you can see here, the better choice to show would be either attributes.media_title or attributes.media_content_id. Not sure which one is more "standard" or common.

[rchl]

Or possibly the component is doing a bad job here by not translating internal name to user-friendly one...

[resoai]

I have the very same issue as I'm a (not so) proud owner of 65' Sony Android TV (2015). We really need to test it as media_title could be showing name of the movie instead of the source etc. There could be situations where media_title could not be present at all etc. This could also be specific to that component.

[rchl]

I've created an issue for that component (referenced here) so we'll see if that can be fixed there.

As for TileBoard, I thought one can work-around it by disabling source and using subtitle instead, like:

...
hideSource: true,
subtitle: '@attributes.media_title',
...

but when turning on netflix for example, media_title (and also source) are disappearing completely...

"attributes": {
        "volume_level": 0.1,
        "is_volume_muted": false,
        "media_content_type": "tvshow",
        "media_series_title": "No info (resumed after pause or                                           app opened)",
        "source_list": [
            "HDMI 1",
            "HDMI 2",
            "HDMI 3/ARC",
            "HDMI 4",
            "AV 1",
            "AV 2/Component"
        ],
        "friendly_name": "MyBraviaTV",
        "supported_features": 23997,
    },

And yeah, I don't want to disable source as then I can't change the source.

[resoai]

I have not looked at HA's code but I think what HA is doing is showing name of the source as long as source is within source_list array and simply Source title otherwise. If this is an adequate enough solution, we could easily do that.

[rchl]

Yes, that is true - it shows 'Source' when there is no source attribute.

[resoai]

We are doing the same thing in TileBoard already but we don't verify source against source_list.

[rchl]

Well, I meant that TileBoard does that (shows "Source") already. That's OK.
The only problem seems to be with the component that it doesn't translate internal name in source in the same way it does for source_list. So I think there is nothing wrong with TileBoard here really.

[resoai]

The only logical solution would be to understand how HA's UI does it and do the same thing.

[Evgeny-]

I think it's your TV problem. But I'm not sure.
See no reason why media title should be used instead source.

[rchl]

As I said, it's probably HA's component fault. But as @resoai pointed out, HA manages to show correct input name.

[rchl]

I think HA just shows media_title which makes it look like it shows correct source. But the source selector doesn't show selected source which is probably due to source not matching selected source from source_list. So there is nothing to fix in TileBoard IMO - feel free to close unless you see something that can be improved.