Ability to fire the media browser from any card as an action

[RomRider]

The request

I'd like to be able to display the media browser from a media_player entity from any card. Right now, firing the show-dialog event with the dialogTag: 'dialog-media-player-browse' doesn't work because the media browser is not loaded. If it is loaded first though a standard media_player card, it works. I wouldn't want to duplicate the media browser in a custom card.

The alternatives

None

Additional information

Something like this below currently doesn't work in a custom-card unless it has been displayed before through a core media_player card. dialogImport is omitted as it would require to duplicate all the code from the media browser which is far from ideal.

  private _handleMediaBrowerEvent(actionConfig: MediaBrowserActionConfig): void {
    fireEvent(this, 'show-dialog', {
      dialogTag: 'dialog-media-player-browse',
      dialogParams: {
        action: 'play',
        entityId: actionConfig.entity_id ? actionConfig.entity_id : this._config?.entity,
        mediaPickedCallback: (pickedMedia: any) => {
          this._hass!.callService('media_player', 'play_media', {
            entity_id: actionConfig.entity_id ? actionConfig.entity_id : this._config?.entity,
            media_content_id: pickedMedia.item.media_content_id,
            media_content_type: pickedMedia.item.media_content_type,
          });
        },
      },
    });
  }

[1ntroduc3]

We;d love to have this feature. So we can launch the mediabrowser from another side.

[RomRider]

An approach would be a service type like more-info but for it would be called media-browser.
@bramkragten, what do you think?

[1ntroduc3]

Is there any update on this feature? This would add great possibilities.

[ncodee]

+1, hopefully this is feasible and gets implemented soon.

[bramkragten]

An approach would be a service type like more-info but for it would be called media-browser.
@bramkragten, what do you think?

That would not be the way to go, if we wanted to implement this, we should expose the showMediaBrowserDialog in custom-card-helpers. But this is always a tricky point, as it will hinder our development since we now have to consider custom cards when making changes.

https://github.com/home-assistant/frontend/blob/add-fallback-to-serviceworker/src/components/media-player/show-media-browser-dialog.ts#L15

[1ntroduc3]

Please do consider it. It would make so much great use cases

[RomRider]

I'd not consider custom-cards as a blocker for this when making changes, but notifying in some ways that changes are happening would be great (as it is for every other accessible components). Then I'd say it's up to the custom-card's dev to figure out what those changes are.

I'd rather have the option and it breaking in a custom card at some point than not having the option at all.

[1ntroduc3]

I'd not consider custom-cards as a blocker for this when making changes, but notifying in some ways that changes are happening would be great (as it is for every other accessible components). Then I'd say it's up to the custom-card's dev to figure out what those changes are.

I'd rather have the option and it breaking in a custom card at some point than not having the option at all.

I agree. This also works for other custom functions that are made available.

[simon041988]

Any Update on this?
I also would really like to have an option to open the browse media dialog directly to use it with other media players or buttons without going over the more info dialog first. Right now, it just isn't great UX.