DOCUMENTATION:

What is this ? A music dashboard UI for Home Assistant that uses mini-media-player to work with Alexa Echo devices and most other sound systems.

This system is designed optimally for Spotify Premium accounts.

Features

• A clean and easy-to-navigate UI
• Program your favourite playlists, tracks, artists and your home devices to easily select what you want to hear, where you want to hear it.
• Adjust the volume with an optionally-disappearing slider
• Song progress timer
• Artwork, song name, artist and album name that transitions when songs change
• Repeat, shuffle, next and previous song functionality
• Power button to easily restart devices after a restart

Installation HACS

Requirements:

• HACS
• Mini-media-player HACS integration
• Spotify Premium account or other music account with associated integrations
• Spotify integration
• Spotcast HACS integration
• Spotify Plus integration
• Save the two .PNG files into your www folder - create subfolders as you see fit. Adjust the file paths in the YAML accordingly.

*You will need to ensure the three Spotify integrations above run properly with the mini-media-player card before using this UI.

**If you do not use Spotify, you will need to ensure your music system runs properly with the mini-media-player card before using this UI.

1. Create a new dashboard view
   • In Home Assistant, click on Overview on the top of the left sidebar.
   • Click the pencil on the right
   • Click the plus + sign
   • Under Layout, choose Panel (single card)
   • Give the dashboard a Title and click save
   • Click Add Card
   • Choose Picture Elements
   • Choose Show Code Editor
   • Type CTRL-A on your keyboard/delete all the text within the Editor
   • Paste in the YAML from the file attached
   • Adjust any components that may be misaligned due to varying screen sizes
   • Copy your Spotify account name from config.yaml and replace all instances of "entity: media_player.spotifyplus_SpotifyAccountName" with your own account name by deleting "SpotifyAccountName" and replacing with your own
   • Use Spotify on a desktop and find the playlists/artists/songs/stations you want to program in. Click the three dots, and press the control button on your keyboard while clicking "Share"
   • The "Copy URL" menu button in Spotify will change to a URI. Click "Copy URI"
   • Use this URI to replace the Spotify links in the YAML

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