API To Extract Library Count

[HouseOfCards 71]

I've been trying to pull in media counts for each library into Home Assistant.  I put in this...

value_template: '{{ value_json ["MovieCount"] }}

It does successfully create a sensor pulled from Emby, but it's totaling the items wrong.  I think it's counting all "Video" files as "Movies", so my home video folder and films library go together, etc...  This isn't what I need, and I've been breaking my brain looking at this trying to figure this out.

https://swagger.emby.media/?staticview=true#

Can anyone tell me what modifications to the code above would query a library count from a library called "Feature Films", for example?  It would really help me out...

Thanks,
Steven

[Cheesegeezer 3087]

12 hours ago, WORMUTHS said:

I've been trying to pull in media counts for each library into Home Assistant.  I put in this...

value_template: '{{ value_json ["MovieCount"] }}

It does successfully create a sensor pulled from Emby, but it's totaling the items wrong.  I think it's counting all "Video" files as "Movies", so my home video folder and films library go together, etc...  This isn't what I need, and I've been breaking my brain looking at this trying to figure this out.

https://swagger.emby.media/?staticview=true#

Can anyone tell me what modifications to the code above would query a library count from a library called "Feature Films", for example?  It would really help me out...

Thanks,
Steven

hi there you can set "includeItemTypes" to get what you need -  "movie" episode, album, etc

http://localhost:8096/emby/Items?Recursive=true&ParentId=5&IncludeItemTypes=movie&api_key={yourAPIKey}

An it will then return all the movies in "mymovies" library including the total record count.

[HouseOfCards 71]

6 hours ago, Cheesegeezer said:

An it will then return all the movies in "mymovies" library including the total record count.

 

I was doing it in config.yaml like this...

 

rest:
  - resource: http://192.168.2.50:8096/emby/Items/Counts?api_key=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    method: GET
    scan_interval: 3600
    sensor:
      - name: "Emby Movie Count"
        value_template: '{{ value_json ["MovieCount"] }}'
      - name: "Emby TV Series Count"
        value_template: '{{ value_json ["SeriesCount"] }}'
      - name: "Emby TV Episode Count"
        value_template: '{{ value_json ["EpisodeCount"] }}'
      - name: "Emby Album Count"
        value_template: '{{ value_json ["AlbumCount"] }}'
      - name: "Emby Song Count"
        value_template: '{{ value_json ["SongCount"] }}'    

This creates sensors, but they have incorrect counts.  I'm hoping to modify this so that it queries by library name.  So in other words, we need to modify the value template to specify a library name.  We still want the "MovieCount", but we want to specify the library "Feature Films" as the source to query...  And "SongCount" from the library "Music Collection", etc...  If that makes sense?  There's a few of us messing with this here...

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/112013-official-emby-home-assitant-integration/

If we could figure this out, it would help a great deal.  But we may be doing this all wrong at this point.  This was the best we got so far, but the counts are incorrect...

 

Steven

[samuelqwe 313]

6 hours ago, WORMUTHS said:

I was doing it in config.yaml like this...

You would just have to change the "resource" part of the yaml with the API endpoint Cheese pointed out, then your sensor would point to the "TotalRecordCount" value of the JSON response.

[HouseOfCards 71]

11 minutes ago, samuelqwe said:

You would just have to change the "resource" part of the yaml with the API endpoint Cheese pointed out, then your sensor would point to the "TotalRecordCount" value of the JSON response.

I'll give it a try...  Thanks all...