# kalkih/mini-media-player

Minimalistic media card for Home Assistant Lovelace UI

Repository: https://github.com/kalkih/mini-media-player
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/mini-media-player
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: automation, home-assistant, hassio, lovelace-ui, lovelace, custom, media-player, sonos, hacktoberfest, homeassistant
Last push: 2026-06-08T07:29:44+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 80/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 86, release rhythm 60, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2912, "days_push": 86, "days_rel": 107, "gap_med": 114.0, "n_releases_24m": 3}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1713, forks 228 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:26.050163+00:00)

## What it is
A minimalistic yet customizable media player card for the Home Assistant Lovelace UI. It is a frontend custom card written in TypeScript that displays and controls media_player entities.

## Use cases
- control sonos speakers from a home assistant dashboard
- show currently playing media on my lovelace dashboard
- add a compact media player widget to home assistant
- customize a media player card with artwork and progress bar
- group and control multiple media players in one card
- install a custom media card via HACS

## When to choose
- you use Home Assistant with Lovelace dashboards and want a lightweight, customizable media player card
- you want a compact alternative to the built-in media control card
- you want HACS-installable cards with active maintenance

## When to avoid
- you don't use Home Assistant or Lovelace UI
- you need a standalone media player app rather than a dashboard card
- you need a full-featured media control interface with extensive theming

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: active
- function: ui-components
- domain: iot, frontend, web-development
- platform: browser
- tags: home-assistant, lovelace, custom-card, media-player, hacs, dashboard, media-processing, home-automation, web

## Member repositories
- kalkih/mini-media-player (main) score 80

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:26.050163+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:34:43.283220+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/kalkih/mini-media-player (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:26.050163+00:00, sha 6d791007b1f1)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/mini-media-player (fetched 2026-08-29T11:11:03.079484+00:00, sha 787449fdfd63)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.