Hi there!
I have installed the Jellyfin integration and am having trouble detecting playback.
The integration itself keeps producing many media_player entities (that’s a different issue), so I decided to try an poll the REST API directly.
The /Sessions endpoint returns a JSON list of objects, one for each session. As I understand it, if that object has the NowPlayingItem key it means playback is active.
See Jellyfin API reference here (and yes, the “X-Emby-Authorization” header is incorrect in the docs, it’s supposed to be “X-MediaBrowser-Token”)
I’m trying to detect that key. Where is wrong with my code?
binary_sensor:
- platform: rest
name: Jellyfin playing
device_class: running
resource_template: "{{ states('input_text.jellyfin_url') }}/Sessions"
headers:
X-MediaBrowser-Token: !secret jellyfin_apikey
value_template: >
{% set bool = 'false' %}
{% for item in value_json %}
{% set bool = 'true' if item.NowPlayingItem is defined %}
{% endfor %}
{{ bool }}
I also tried a different condition: if 'NowPlayingItem' in item with no luck.
Just for debugging purposes, I created a REST sensor with the value:
value_template: "{{ value_json[0].NowPlayingItem.Name }}"
…and when there’s playback, I get the media name just fine.
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