mini-media-player vs lovelace-layout-card

mini-media-player

Minimalistic media card for Home Assistant Lovelace UI (by kalkih)

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lovelace-layout-card

🔹 Get more control over the placement of lovelace cards. (by thomasloven)

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mini-media-player		lovelace-layout-card
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5	Mentions	6
1,441	Stars	967
-	Growth	-
7.5	Activity	3.8
3 months ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
TypeScript	Language	TypeScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

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mini-media-player

Posts with mentions or reviews of mini-media-player. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-02.

Is there any solution so that Plexamp Headless can control the power and volume of the audio device its connected to?
1 project | /r/plexamp | 11 Mar 2023

The particular Home Assistant card I use is mini-media-player which allows me to define the extra buttons you see in the bottom row. Left/Right call scripts which fire volume up/down via a Broadlink RM4 Mini IR Blaster to my receiver. Stop sends power off to my receiver through the blaster and stops cast playback on my phone (in Plexamp on your phone, be sure to allow your Plexamp app to be remotely controlled.)
Whole-home audio equipment
1 project | /r/homeautomation | 31 Jan 2022

I went through the same thing a year ago when we renovated an old house. I am using two (2) of the Monoprice 6 zone amps and the Monoprice integration in HomeAssistant (https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/monoprice/). I also use the minimedia player card (https://github.com/kalkih/mini-media-player). For sources, I have the AVR in our family room connected to one input on the Monoprice amp and five old Apple Airport Expresses that I got off Ebay connected to the other inputs.
https://np.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/ock207/my_work_in_progress_copied_from_others/h3vs2n2/
13 projects | /r/backtickbot | 2 Jul 2021
A smart button for raising and lowering volume on google home?
1 project | /r/homeautomation | 25 Mar 2021

If you were to use Home Assistant, you could use a tablet or old phone running the HA app and having something like the "mini media player" card for each speaker, and then one for all speakers, stacked on top each other. This allows individual or overall volume control when playing content. I did it for the same reason you stated -- I was tired of having to verbally tell Google to adjust individual speaker volumes.
Does anyone know of a way to select speakers in a media player like this example, but with google homes as the speakers? It doesn't appear it's supported by mini-media-player.
2 projects | /r/homeassistant | 24 Dec 2020

Look for grouped cards option https://github.com/kalkih/mini-media-player

lovelace-layout-card

Posts with mentions or reviews of lovelace-layout-card. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-12.

My network closet, just above coats
1 project | /r/homelab | 31 Mar 2023

I used custom layout card which allows you to add hard breaks between columns - https://github.com/thomasloven/lovelace-layout-card
Custom Mushroom Card (Home Assistant)
2 projects | /r/u_SentientCobra | 12 Dec 2022
My take on the MagSafe Home Assistant wall mounted dashboard
3 projects | /r/homeautomation | 25 Nov 2022

Using Lovelace Layout Card https://github.com/thomasloven/lovelace-layout-card
Dashboard Help: Custom Layout Grid
1 project | /r/u_simplygardner | 5 Sep 2022

Following this post, I been trying to understand the Custom Layout grid and been messing around with a design.
https://np.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/ock207/my_work_in_progress_copied_from_others/h3vs2n2/
13 projects | /r/backtickbot | 2 Jul 2021
What would you like to see in 2021 for Home Assistant?
2 projects | /r/homeassistant | 27 Dec 2020

Look into Thomas Loven's layout card and panel mode.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing mini-media-player and lovelace-layout-card you can also consider the following projects:

lovelace-card-mod - 🔹 Add CSS styles to (almost) any lovelace card

PlexMeetsHomeAssistant - Custom card which integrates plex into Home Assistant and makes it possible to launch movies or tv shows on TV with a simple click

spotcast - Home assistant custom component to start Spotify playback on an idle chromecast device as well as control spotify connect devices

fan-control-entity-row - Provides a means to show a compact graphical control row for 2 or 3 speed fans in Home Assistant

button-card - ❇️ Lovelace button-card for home assistant

hass-browser_mod - 🔹 A Home Assistant integration to turn your browser into a controllable entity and media player

spotify-card - Spotify playlist card for Home Assistant card

forked-daapd - OwnTone is forked-daapd's new name! Linux/FreeBSD DAAP (iTunes) and MPD media server with support for AirPlay devices (multiroom), Apple Remote (and compatibles), Chromecast, Spotify and internet radio. [Moved to: https://github.com/owntone/owntone-server]

home-assistant-cards - List of Home Assistant UI cards

swipe-card - Card that allows you to swipe throught multiple cards for Home Assistant Lovelace