---
title: cmus
description: Instructions on how to integrate cmus Music Player into Home Assistant.
ha_category:
  - Media Player
ha_iot_class: Local Polling
ha_release: 0.23
ha_domain: cmus
---

The `cmus` platform allows you to control a [cmus](https://cmus.github.io/) music player on a remote or local machine from Home Assistant.

To add cmus to your installation, add the following to your `configuration.yaml` file if running locally it will look like:

```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
media_player:
  - platform: cmus
```

If cmus is running on a remote server:

```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
media_player:
  - platform: cmus
    host: IP_ADDRESS_OF_CMUS_PLAYER
    password: YOUR_PASSWORD
```

{% configuration %}
host:
  description: Hostname or IP address of the machine running cmus. Note if a remote cmus is configured that instance must be configured to listen to remote connections, which also requires a password to be set.
  required: inclusive
  type: string
password:
  description: Password for your cmus player.
  required: inclusive
  type: string
port:
  description: Port of the cmus socket.
  required: false
  default: 3000
  type: integer
name:
  description: The name you'd like to give the cmus player in Home Assistant.
  required: false
  default: cmus
  type: string
{% endconfiguration %}
