---
title: RoonLabs music player
description: Instructions on how to integrate a RoonLabs multi room player into Home Assistant.
ha_category:
  - Media Player
ha_release: 0.115
ha_iot_class: Local Push
ha_config_flow: true
ha_codeowners:
  - '@pavoni'
ha_domain: roon
ha_platforms:
  - media_player
ha_integration_type: integration
---

The Roon integration allows you to control [RoonLabs](https://roonlabs.com/) music players from Home Assistant.

This integration uses Roon Core, a Roon application that runs on a machine on your network. Via Roon Core, Home Assistant can control all the Roon music players on your network.

## Configuration

1. From the Home Assistant front-end, navigate to **Settings** -> **Devices & Services**. Under **Set up a new integration** locate 'Roon' and click **Configure**.
2. Home Assistant will then try to find your Roon Core - if it is successful it will display `Authorize HomeAssistant in Roon`. Click **Submit** and skip to step 4
3. If your Roon Core is not automatically found you can enter the `Hostname` or `IP address` for the Roon Core machine when requested and click **Submit**.
4. Home Assistant will then contact your Roon Core and ask to be authorized. You will need to enable this extension in the Room Application. Go to **Settings** and then **Extensions**, there you will see an entry for Home Assistant with a button next to it. Click **Enable**.
5. Roon core will then provide Home Assistant with the details of your media players.
6. In Home Assistant you can then pick an area for each of your music players, and add them to Home Assistant.

## Services

#### Service `media_player.play_media`

Roon uses a path based on the roon browser hierarchy to specify which media to play. You can find this by using the media browser, or by following the examples below. If roon can't follow the path you will find an error in the log that will show which part of the path roon could not follow, and the possibilities at that point.

| Service data attribute | Optional | Description                                                                                                                                                            |
| -----------------------| -------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `entity_id`            |      yes | Target a specific media player. To target all media players, use `all`.                                                                                                                       |
| `media_content_id`     |       no | A path to specify the media you want to play, see examples below.                   |
| `media_content_type`   |       no | Only `music` is supported  |

 For example to play the album Harvest by Neil Young you should set `media_content_id` to `Library/Artists/Neil Young/Harvest` and to play BBC Radio 4 you would set `media_content_id` to `My Live Radio/BBC Radio 4`

### Service `roon.transfer`

Transfer playback from one player to another.

| Service data attribute | Optional | Description |
| ---------------------- | -------- | ----------- |
| `entity_id` | yes | id of the source player.
| `transfer_id` | no | id of the destination player.