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title: "Media Player"
description: "Instructions how to setup your media players with Home Assistant."
date: 2015-01-24 14:39
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Interacts with media players on your network.

Currently supported devices:

- [Chromecasts](/components/media_player.cast.html)
- [Music Player Daemon](/components/media_player.mpd.html)
- [Kodi](/components/media_player.kodi.html)

## Services

### Media control services
Available services: `turn_off`, `volume_up`, `volume_down`, `media_play_pause`, `media_play`, `media_pause`, `media_next_track`

| Service data attribute | Optional | Description |
| ---------------------- | -------- | ----------- |
| `entity_id`            |      yes | Target a specific media player. Defaults to all.

### Media play services

There are three services to start playing YouTube video's on the media player.

#### Service `media_player/play_youtube_video`
Service to start playing a YouTube video on the media player. 

| Service data attribute | Optional | Description |
| ---------------------- | -------- | ----------- |
| `entity_id`            |      yes | Target a specific media player. Defaults to all.
| `video`                |       no | YouTube video to be played, ie. `L0MK7qz13bU`


#### Service `media_player/start_fireplace` and `media_player/start_epic_sax`
Will either start a fireplace or Epic Sax Guy 10h on the media player.

| Service data attribute | Optional | Description |
| ---------------------- | -------- | ----------- |
| `entity_id`            |      yes | Target a specific media player. Defaults to all.