Add "MA" (or something) prefix to Music Assistant media players

[chrkov]

For sorting and filtering purposes, add a prefix to the media players that MA creates. Right now, MA just creates a 'media_player.something_2' for 'media_player.something' It would be nice to see it as 'media_player.MA_something' instead. This way you can filter on 'media_player.MA_*'.

My emby integration does exactly this. 'media_player.basement_tv' emby makes its player 'media_player.emby_basement_tv' which works great for filtering and grouping.

[Mr-HaleYa]

This would actually be really nice.
Currently, my Tv has created media_player.tv, media_player.tv_1, media_player.tv_2 due to having multiple casting technologies in it so now Music Assistant has made media_player.tv_3, and its all rather confusing/messy.

[OzGav]

You can find all the created players by going to settings>>integrations>>music assistant. If there is a compelling reason why this is not adequate then please provide a detailed use case and we can have a look at it.

[Mr-HaleYa]

I agree, there's nothing wrong with the way it works now, it just looks less than it could. I've gone through and renamed all my entities MA created with a ma_ prefix eg media_player.ma_kitchen_display. Look better/cleaner and at least 3 others agree 😅
When creating automation or editing a card I can just type media_player.ma_ and they all pop up, feels convenient, more refined, less slapped on +1 suffixy.

[marcelveldt]

We can't predefine entity id's without also prefixing the entire name of the player.
Also I do not really see the point of this as MA now works like ANY other HA integration and you can easily change the entity id's yourself.
Note that the entire foundation of MA changed. Where in v1 we based our players on the HA players it is now the other way around. You will have plenty of users that will only have a single entity for a player because the player was originated from MA.

Mass players are easily identified because they have a 'mass_player_id' attribute.