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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. Please check the sidebar for a full list of supported devices.

## {% linkable_title Services %}

### {% linkable_title Media control services %}
Available services: `turn_on`, `turn_off`, `toggle`, `volume_up`, `volume_down`, `media_play_pause`, `media_play`, `media_pause`, `media_next_track`, `media_previous_track`

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

#### {% linkable_title Service `media_player/mute_volume` %}

| Service data attribute | Optional | Description |
| ---------------------- | -------- | ----------- |
| `entity_id`            |      yes | Target a specific media player. Defaults to all.
| `mute`                 |       no | True/false for mute/unmute

#### {% linkable_title Service `media_player/set_volume_level` %}

| Service data attribute | Optional | Description |
| ---------------------- | -------- | ----------- |
| `entity_id`            |      yes | Target a specific media player. Defaults to all.
| `volume`               |       no | Integer for volume level

#### {% linkable_title Service `media_player/media_seek` %}

| Service data attribute | Optional | Description |
| ---------------------- | -------- | ----------- |
| `entity_id`            |      yes | Target a specific media player. Defaults to all.
| `position`             |       no | Position to seek to. The format is platform dependent.

#### {% linkable_title Service `media_player/play_media` %}

| Service data attribute          | Optional | Description |
| ------------------------------- | -------- | ----------- |
| `entity_id`                     |      yes | Target a specific media player. Defaults to all.
| `media_content_id`              |       no | A media identifier. The format of this is component dependent. For example, you can provide URLs to Sonos and Cast but only a playlist ID to iTunes.
| `media_content_type`            |       no | A media type. Must be one of `MUSIC`, `TVSHOW`, `VIDEO`, `EPISODE`, `CHANNEL` or `PLAYLIST`. For example, to play music you would set `media_content_type` to `MUSIC`.