Handling multiple media players and output devices

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Hi,

I was wondering what setup other people use for handling different output devices and different players, so to maybe get some ideas how to optimize my setup.

I currently have:

  • a single media player (Nvidia shield pro 2019)
  • A TV
  • A Projector
  • An AVR
  • Home Assistant in the background

My current setup is that i have top level actions on my remote to:

  • Control the media player, regardless of output (the integration starts/stops nothing by itself)
  • Start/Configure the setup for TV output (Home Assistant script)
  • Start/Configure the setup for Projector output (Home Assistant script)
  • Shut everything down (Home Assistant script)

The reason for this is, that I didn’t want to have to copy the media player control layout for TV and Projector mode, and that I didn’t want to shut down the whole setup by mistake when touching the wrong part of the screen when inside the media player control activity.

Now I am thinking about switching to a setup with 2 player devices, which makes things more complicated, and I am still not sure how to solve this in the most elegant way.

Does anyone here have a similar setup, and if so, how did you implement it on your remote?

Thanks.

2

I personally just created an activity for each scenario (Watch Apple TV on TV, Watch Apple TV on projector) and linked them to different profile pages.
Some people have created a main activity from where they start other activities depending on where to watch the content. That’s possible by adding all activities as entities to the main activity. Each activity has a start and stop command that you can link to a (soft-)button.
Unfortunately there is no way to link ui pages so you will always end up in manually adjusting or copy/pasting your changes to the other activity.

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I only have 1 activity per player like Fire TV, Dune or Vu+. Always included TV and projector and of course AVR. I always start with view on TV and switch to projector by a macro. In the macros also screen and shades are handled.

With different activities for TV and projector meant twice number of activities. I use this system for 15 years now.

Ralf