mini-media-player vs spotcast

mini-media-player

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

spotcast

Home assistant custom component to start Spotify playback on an idle chromecast device as well as control spotify connect devices (by fondberg)

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mini-media-player		spotcast
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5	Mentions	7
1,441	Stars	634
-	Growth	-
7.5	Activity	5.9
3 months ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
TypeScript	Language	Python
MIT License	License	Apache License 2.0

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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

spotcast

Posts with mentions or reviews of spotcast. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-27.

Meet Atom the GPT Assistant, an AI-powered Smart Home Assistant. It's like Google Assistant but with endless possibility of ChatGPT, it's like Siri but with extensibility of Open Source power.
6 projects | /r/homeautomation | 27 Apr 2023

Yes, the GPT Assistant relies on HomeAssistant, which you can use the official spotify integration plus spotcast to play a specific playlist of Spotify on a specific device (say speaker that supports ChromeCast)
Has anyone managed to cast a Spotify playlist?
1 project | /r/nodered | 7 Jul 2022

Use this custom component in Home Assistant to cast to a Spotify-connected device: https://github.com/fondberg/spotcast
Spotify on HomeAssistant
2 projects | /r/homeautomation | 15 Dec 2021

According to https://github.com/fondberg/spotcast/issues/170 that issue was fixed a while back but I'm sure I've seen it since. Just noticed I had an update pending for spotcadt so make sure it's up to date
https://np.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/ock207/my_work_in_progress_copied_from_others/h3vs2n2/
13 projects | /r/backtickbot | 2 Jul 2021
Spotify intergration - running on iMac
1 project | /r/homeassistant | 1 Feb 2021

Ah okay. Well spotcast should meet those requirements perfectly 😃
Scheduled Spotify to Google Home Playlist
1 project | /r/homeassistant | 9 Jan 2021

And Spotcast: SPOTCAST

What are some alternatives?

When comparing mini-media-player and spotcast you can also consider the following projects:

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

spotify-card - Spotify playlist card for Home Assistant card

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

lovelace-layout-card - 🔹 Get more control over the placement of lovelace cards.

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

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]

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

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

mini-graph-card - Minimalistic graph card for Home Assistant Lovelace UI