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Lovelace forked daapd card

A lovelace card for Home Assistant to control a forked daapd instance.

This card allow you to control your forked daapd instance through Home Assistant. The following controls are available: master volume, play/pause, next/previous, on/off, output selection, individual output volume.

Requirements

Forked daapd built with websocket support.
Forked daapd setup as an media_player (mpd component) in Home Assistant

Install

Simple install

Copy forked-daapd-card.js into your config/www ”folder.
Add a reference to the forked-daapd-card.js inside your ui-lovelace.yaml.

resources:
  - url: /local/forked-daapd-card.js?v=0.0.2
    type: module

Install using git

Clone this repository into your config/www folder using git.

git clone https://github.com/kalkih/forked-daapd-card.git

Add a reference to the card in your ui-lovelace.yaml.

resources:
  - url: /local/forked-daapd-card/forked-daapd-card.js?v=0.0.2
    type: module

Updating

Locate your forked-daapd-card.js in config/www or wherever you ended up storing it.
Replace it with the latest version of forked-daapd-card.js.
Add the new version number to the end of the cards reference url in your ui-lovelace.yaml like below.

resources:
  - url: /local/forked-daapd-card.js?v=0.0.2
    type: module

If you went the git clone route, just run git pull from inside your config/www/forked-daapd-card/ directory, to get the latest version of the code. Then add the new version number to the end of the card reference url in your ui-lovelace.yaml like below.

resources:
  - url: /local/forked-daapd-card/forked-daapd-card.js?v=0.0.2
    type: module

Using the card

Options

Name	Type	Default	Since	Description
type	string	required	v0.0.1	`custom:forked-daapd-card`.
entity	string	required	v0.0.1	The entity_id of your forked-daapd media_player (mpd) in home assistant.
ip	string	required	v0.0.1	Set the IP address of your forked-daapd server.
port	number	3689	v0.0.1	Set the port of your forked-daapd server.
ws_port	number	3688	v0.0.1	Set the websocket port of your forked-daapd server.
name	string	optional	v0.0.1	Set a custom `friendly_name` which is displayed beside the icon.
icon	string	optional	v0.0.1	set a custom icon from any of the available mdi icons.
outputs	list	optional	v0.0.1	If you want to only show specific outputs, include the id of each one in the list.

You can find the outputs ids by accessing http://<forked-daapd-ip>:<port>/api/outputs

Example usage

Normal

- type: "custom:forked-daapd-card"
  entity: media_player.multiroom_audio
  ip: "192.168.1.5"
  name: Multiroom

Show only specified outputs

- type: "custom:forked-daapd-card"
  entity: media_player.multiroom_audio
  ip: "192.168.1.5"
  name: Multiroom
  outputs:
    - "225176710053082"
    - "962995053492"
    - "24918234768"

Getting errors?

Make sure you have javascript_version: latest in your configuration.yaml under frontend:.

Make sure you have the latest versions of forked-daapd-card.js.

If you have issues after updating the card, try clearing your browser cache.

License

This project is under the MIT license.