Randomise playlist via button

[msknight]

I'm getting there, just one final hurdle to get over... randomisation of the playlist.

I've tried a few options like order-by in the data: but obviously that's not the way to do it.

I've been reading some code here - https://music-assistant.io/faq/how-to/#add-items-to-the-queue-via-a-script-or-automation but I've been having a hard time getting that into a tap_action and also converting the "queue of tracks" to a playlist. I guess I just haven't got the hang of the syntax yet... and it is so unforgiving on spaces.

Grateful for advice please.

Code so far...

show_name: true
show_icon: true
type: button
tap_action:
  action: perform-action
  perform_action: music_assistant.play_media
  target:
    device_id: 28997742cf314ff142f7af99b3c68430
  data:
    media_type: playlist
    media_id: Michelle
entity: input_button.music_button
grid_options:
  columns: 3
  rows: 2
name: My AK-70 List
icon: mdi:record-circle

[OzGav]

I’m not sure what you want to do. If you want to play a playlist in a random order then enable shuffle on the queue before adding the playlist.

If you want to choose a random playlist then look just below the section of the docs you linked to above.

[msknight]

That's where I seem to be coming undone. It seems that the tap_action can only support one action. If I try and copy another "action" in there... ie. to set the shuffle mode on the queue, and then perform the action for play media, the other action is taken from the code when I save it... despite saying that it is successfully saved. The band on the left, by the line numbers, is going red, but I can't find out, how to find what it's not happy with. (in the file editor for configuration.yaml, there is a red exclamation mark and I can click it to find out what I've got wrong, but that's not available in the code editor for the button card), so I just don't know how to put this in the code. I can't figure out how to convert the code in the action section of the example, into a form that the button card will accept.

[OzGav]

Have a look here https://community.home-assistant.io/t/how-to-add-two-or-more-actions-to-a-single-button-card/269394/12

[msknight]

I'm trying to get it to do two things on a tap action... so while having a separate thing on a hold_action is accepted, if i change that to tap_action as well... it doesn't like it.

[OzGav]

Sounds like a bug in the button card then. I would use a script as suggested in that thread I linked

[msknight]

Multiple scripts is going to get messy, unless I can use the button to pass a parameter to one script. That's what I'll look in to next.

I think someone has already suggested a "shuffle" option for the musicassistant:Playmedia action, so I'll just sit and wait for that to hopefully come around... otherwise the work around could be messy.

Thanks for your help on this.