Home Assistant Media Player Group

The alexa media custom component makes it possible and this guide will walk you through the setup process.

Home assistant media player group. It will also give you a notify service allowing you to produce custom audible notifications. Additionally the universal media player allows volume and power commands to be re routed to other entities in home assistant. For example you can provide urls to sonos and cast but only a playlist id to itunes. Home assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.

Must be one of music tvshow video episode channel or playlist. Group living room passing data to the service call. If you set the all option to true though this behavior is inverted and all members of the group have to be on for the group to turn on as well. Or combine multiple entities with multiple states.

All and it will turn on all possible entities. Available for free at home assistant io. Multiple media player entities can be controlled from an universal media player. Then go to your home assistant configuration menu and find the integration tab.

Configuration to add a vlc media player to your installation add the following to your configuration yaml file. You can also use entity id. Playing paused sun condition sun state condition. Click on the alexa media player result and tap on install.

This is used for creating a single entity that controls an entire media center. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and diy enthusiasts. This will turn all members of group living room on. Target a specific media player.

Support for these integrations is provided by the home assistant community. Click on the big orange button in the lower right corner and search again for alexa media player and click on it and. Call the service homeassistant turn on on the entity group living room. Adding this custom component to home assistant will allow your alexa device to appear as a media player entity in home assistant.

In the following example both media players need to be either paused or playing for the condition to pass. Group behavior by default when any member of a group is on then the group will also be on. The format of this is integration dependent. Media player living room media player kitchen state.

Perfect to run on a raspberry pi or a local server. Now open your home assistant tap on hacs and search for alexa media player. Similarly with a device tracker when any member of the group is home then the group is home. All 1652 featured added in.