# Homeassistant - source title in media player card **URL:** \ **Category:** Home Automation Integration\ **Created:** [September 28, 2022, 4:37pm UTC](https://amplipi.discourse.group/t/homeassistant-source-title-in-media-player-card/139 "2022-09-28T16:37:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Juggler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea5d25/32.png) [@Juggler](https://amplipi.discourse.group/u/Juggler)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 4:37pm UTC](https://amplipi.discourse.group/t/homeassistant-source-title-in-media-player-card/139/1 "2022-09-28T16:37:06Z")
I have now installed my AmpliPi (with most recent f/w) in my rack and have integrated it with Homeassistant (thank you @bhealey!). When I add a media player card for one of the Zones to my dashboard, I can select from the 4 sources. Despite renaming these sources in both the AmpliPi webUI and HA integration, they continue to show up as “Source 1”, “Source 2”, … Ideally these titles would be dynamic based on what is playing on the given source. At very least, I would like to be able to statically define these so my better half can more easily control what she is listening to. I will continue to post further impressions/thoughts as I become more familiar with the capabilities and limitations of the HA integration with AmpliPi. ---
**Author:** ![bshootz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@bshootz](https://amplipi.discourse.group/u/bshootz)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2022, 3:44am UTC](https://amplipi.discourse.group/t/homeassistant-source-title-in-media-player-card/139/2 "2022-09-29T03:44:07Z")
The zones don’t have media, the sources do. There are 4 Sources and then as many zones as you have depending on extenders or not. If the zone has the option to choose between the 4 sources. The sources are the ones that control the media, play/pause/etc. You’ll need to add a media play card for the source(s) to control the media, and a separate media player card for each zone to control the volume (and which source the zone is on). ---
**Author:** ![Juggler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea5d25/32.png) [@Juggler](https://amplipi.discourse.group/u/Juggler)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2022, 5:36pm UTC](https://amplipi.discourse.group/t/homeassistant-source-title-in-media-player-card/139/3 "2022-09-29T17:36:16Z")
Thanks for the reply. While I understand what you are saying, from a usability perspective, this is not ideal (especially WAF!!!). For any household member other than the IT admin (me), they expect to be able to control the music in a given room from a single player. At the very least, it would be nice for them to be able to see what each “source” has been defined as. I’m going to experiment with the [universal media player](https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/universal/) integration in HA to see if I can’t Frankenstein it. ---
**Author:** ![linknum23](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/amplipi.discourse.group/linknum23/32/6_2.png) [@linknum23](https://amplipi.discourse.group/u/linknum23)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2022, 7:13pm UTC](https://amplipi.discourse.group/t/homeassistant-source-title-in-media-player-card/139/4 "2022-09-29T19:13:14Z")
Sorry about the complications with this. The reason the HA interface doesn’t use the names is because the AmpliPi API doesn’t have a way to name each of the 4 RCA inputs separately from the names of the sources. It is something we are planning on adding (to the API) in the future. ---
**Author:** ![Juggler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea5d25/32.png) [@Juggler](https://amplipi.discourse.group/u/Juggler)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2022, 12:46am UTC](https://amplipi.discourse.group/t/homeassistant-source-title-in-media-player-card/139/5 "2022-09-30T00:46:54Z")
No worries… thanks for letting me know. I’ve started playing with the “universal media player” integration and I think I’ll be able to accomplish much of what I’m hoping. I will share my .yaml here when I get it working. ---
**Author:** ![Juggler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea5d25/32.png) [@Juggler](https://amplipi.discourse.group/u/Juggler)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 9:28pm UTC](https://amplipi.discourse.group/t/homeassistant-source-title-in-media-player-card/139/6 "2022-10-07T21:28:31Z")
Posted my HA configurations here: [Using HA's universal media player integration](https://amplipi.discourse.group/t/using-has-universal-media-player-integration/147)