Home assistant: client playing content in multiview reports wrong state

ever since multiview was introduced, clients report the "idle" state when you are playing content in multiview.

could we please get this updated to something better matching the actual state. thanks.

This seems to be a server -> client issue.

How is this related to Home Assistant?

I don't think it is and people may ignore your post because of it mentioned in the title.

that is the state reported by channels to home assistant. this change is probably best made on the HA integration side, but might require changes on the channels side also depending on how they want to handle multiview state, if it isn't already.

not sure who maintains that, the HA docs for the integration say "the community" maintains it, but i'm used to seeing it be either a core integration or have a maintainer.

regardless, something being advertised isn't working as expected. i don't pay HA and don't participate in their forums or github so i'm putting it here.

i already moved some stuff over to just using the channels API, i'll probably look at if i can get around this that way also. the integration doesn't look like it's maintained at all.