mini-media-player vs spotify-card

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mini-media-player		spotify-card
	Project
5	Mentions	2
1,441	Stars	358
-	Growth	1.1%
7.5	Activity	0.0
3 months ago	Latest Commit	11 months ago
TypeScript	Language	TypeScript
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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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

spotify-card

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

https://np.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/ock207/my_work_in_progress_copied_from_others/h3vs2n2/
13 projects | /r/backtickbot | 2 Jul 2021
I'm so happy with this setup...
4 projects | /r/homeassistant | 31 Jan 2021

no worries - the spotify card above the players is this one - https://github.com/custom-cards/spotify-card but I have it configured to work with the drop down and dual accounts.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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

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

homeassistant-peloton-sensor - A platform which allows you to get current and past ride data from Peloton into HomeAssistant

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

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

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]

lovelace-slider-entity-row - 🔹 Add sliders to entity cards

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