MediaPlayer:Toggle does not turn Off Cast devices

[mvdwetering]

The problem

When using the MediaPlayer:Toggle service with a Cast media_player it does turn On, but when calling MediaPlayer:Toggle again it does not turn Off

When watching with the developer tools I see the following:

• Cast media_player has state Off, frontend shows player is Off (gray card, no title or play button)
• Call MediaPlayer:Toggle on the Cast media_player
• State changes to Idle, frontend shows media_player is active (colored card, additional controls like play button became visible)
• Call MediaPlayer:Toggle on the Cast media_player
• State stays Idle, no errors in the log, no change in frontend

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2022.8.6

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

No response

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

Cast

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/cast/

Diagnostics information

Does not support diagnostics it seems

Example YAML snippet

I am using the UI mode for calling the service, but this is what it shows when switching to YAML mode:

service: media_player.toggle
data: {}
target:
  entity_id:
    - media_player.googlehome7482

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

No errors

Additional information

No response

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[mvdwetering]

Turns out that the MediaPlayer async_toggle considers STATE_IDLE to be Off which is why it won't turn Off when it is Idle.

        if self.state in (STATE_OFF, STATE_IDLE, STATE_STANDBY):
            await self.async_turn_on()
        else:
            await self.async_turn_off()

I am now not sure if Cast integration should not use STATE_IDLE or that STATE_IDLE should not be considered Off.

I assume the latter since the frontend renders the mediaplayer card as On when the state is Idle.

If there is clarity on what should change I can make a PR to fix it.

[mvdwetering]

Just noticed that the media_player documentation says:

Entity is turned on and accepting commands, but currently not playing any media. Possibly at some idle home screen.

(could have sworn that was not there when I submitted this :/ )

So idle should not be in the Off state list.

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[mvdwetering]

Mediaplayer Toggle service does still not work for Google cast in HA 2022.12.4

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[mvdwetering]

Still same issue with HA 2023.3.3

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[mvdwetering]

Still exists on HA 2023.6.1

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[mvdwetering]

Still exists on HA 2023.9.1

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[mvdwetering]

Still exists

[leafney]

I seem to have a similar problem

[antivariant]

Doesn't turn off TV (only switches the HA and Chromecast wallpaper). Works like the 'Cast' button.

[MG-PL-MG]

I have similar problem. turn_off switches device to "Home Screen" and device is still on while HA shows media player off (grey card). It seems that if device has more services than only eg. playing media, the media_player.turn_off is turning of particular service that is in use but not power off the device. Calling turn_off again has no effect and device is still in "Home Screen". As it is commented above it might be that device is in idle state and accept only turn_on. This way HA is unable to turn device power off.

[sol3uk]

Same issue here, chromecast not being turned off, just sent to idle screen.

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[mvdwetering]

Still there in HA core 2024.6.0

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[mvdwetering]

Still an issue in 2024.8.1.

Last time I will extend the stale notice, next time I will let it go. Someone else can take over.

[19Francesco81]

Still an issue in 2024.10.2.

why is this bug not fixed?

[NewAstronaut7451]

New user, same issue here. PR https://github.com/home-assistant/core/pull/78192 looks like it was shut down

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[emontnemery]

We should get this fixed

[emontnemery]

Note that the linked PR won't work for all cast devices, the problem is that they simply can't be turned on or off.