Reloading universal media players sets states to Unknown

[Salvora]

The problem

This issue was reported before and closed as fixed in 2020, however, I am experiencing the same issue now.

All my universal media player entities reports as 'unknown' when I reload the "universal media players" from Developer Tools/Yaml

old issue: https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/41593

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2022.10.5

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

Universal Media Player

Link to integration documentation on our website

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

Diagnostics information

No response

Example YAML snippet

- platform: universal
  name: "Mutfak TV"
  unique_id: "Mutfak TV"
  children:
    - media_player.mutfak_tv
    - media_player.mutfak_chromecast_ultra
  state_template: "{{ iif(is_state('switch.mutfak_tv_guc', 'on'), 'on', 'off') or iif(not is_state('media_player.mutfak_tv', 'off'), 'on', 'off') }}"
  commands:
    turn_on:
      service: switch.turn_on
      target:
        entity_id: switch.mutfak_tv_guc
    turn_off:
      service: switch.turn_off
      target:
        entity_id: switch.mutfak_tv_guc
  device_class: tv

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

none

Additional information

No response

[home-assistant[bot]]

universal documentation universal source

[Salvora]

still an issue

[Salvora]

still an issue

[pavlov70]

Same issue here. Thanks to OP for reporting this as I spent way too much time troubleshooting why my universal player stopped working after making a simple change. Finally rebooted as mentioned above and the player reports proper status.

[Salvora]

still an issue

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