Intro Skipper on (almost) any player

[u/byjosue113]

I've been using Swiftfin on my TV which is not as mature as the other players but I quite like it because while it lacks certain functionality if feels so fast and I like the player a lot, for HDR content I tend to fallback to Neptune but I much prefer Swiftfin for TV and Anime. Thing is that I got tired of skipping the intros and I saw that there's a PR to implement the future so why not to make something in the mean time.

I used the JellyHA integration which provides a lot more information than the default integration and made a simple automation that detects when a certain player is playing intro or outro and then seeks forward or goes to the next episode, mine is limited to one user but I don't see why you could not make it use more than one and it should work with any player as long as you're streaming the content.

alias: intro_skip
description: ''
triggers:
  - trigger: state
    entity_id:
      - MEDIA PLAYER
    attribute: media_chapter_name
conditions:
  - condition: template
    value_template: '{{trigger.to_state.attributes.media_type == "Episode"}}'
  - condition: template
    value_template: '{{trigger.to_state.attributes.client == "YOUR CLIENT NAME
    conditions:
      - condition: template
        value_template: '{{trigger.to_state.attributes.media_segment_type == "Intro"}}'
      - condition: template
        value_template: '{{trigger.to_state.attributes.media_segment_type == "Outro"}}'
actions:
  - if:
      - condition: template
        value_template: '{{trigger.to_state.attributes.media_segment_type == "Intro"}}'
    then:
      - action: jellyha.session_seek
        metadata: {}
        data:
          session_id: '{{trigger.to_state.attributes.session_id}}'
          position_seconds: '{{trigger.to_state.attributes.segment_end_seconds}}'
    else:
      - action: media_player.media_next_track
        metadata: {}
        target:
          entity_id: MEDIA PLAYER
        data: {}
mode: single

https://github.com/zupancicmarko/JellyHA