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title	description	ha_category	ha_iot_class	ha_release	ha_domain	ha_config_flow	ha_quality_scale	ha_codeowners
Roku	Instructions how to integrate Roku devices into Home Assistant.	Hub Media Player Remote	Local Polling	0.86	roku	true	silver	@ctalkington

The Roku integration allows you to control a Roku device.

Configuration

Go to the integrations page in your configuration and click on new integration -> Roku. If your Roku device is on, it has likely been discovered already and you just have to confirm the detected device.

There is currently support for the following device types within Home Assistant:

• Media Player
• Remote

YAML Configuration

Manual configuration of your Roku device is also possible, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
roku:
  - host: IP_ADDRESS

{% configuration %} host: description: Set the IP address of the Roku device. required: true type: string {% endconfiguration %}

Remote

The roku remote platform allows you to send remote control buttons to a Roku device. It is automatically set up when a Roku is configured.

At the moment, the following buttons are supported:

• back
• backspace
• channel_down
• channel_up
• down
• enter
• find_remote
• forward
• home
• info
• input_av1
• input_hdmi1
• input_hdmi2
• input_hdmi3
• input_hdmi4
• input_tuner
• left
• literal
• play
• power
• replay
• reverse
• right
• search
• select
• up
• volume_down
• volume_mute
• volume_up

A typical service call for pressing several buttons looks like this.

service: remote.send_command
data:
  entity_id: remote.roku
  command:
    - left
    - left
    - select

Media Player

When the Home Assistant Roku integration is enabled and a Roku device has been configured, in the Home Assistant UI the Roku media player will show a listing of the installed channels, or apps, under “source”. Select one and it will attempt to launch the channel on your Roku device. This action can also be automated. Channels can be launched by name using a configuration similar to the one below:

action:
- data:
    entity_id: media_player.roku
    source: "Prime Video"
  service: media_player.select_source

Alternatively, the appID for the channel can be used for source: Although this information is gathered by the Roku integration, at the moment it is not exposed to the end-user. This item might be added in a future release. For now, you can easily get the information yourself. All you need to do is a GET API call on the same network as your device.

The API calls are like this:

GET http://ROKU_IP:8060/query/apps
POST http://ROKU_IP:8060/launch/APP_ID

YouTube example:
POST http://YOUR_ROKU_IP:8060/launch/837?contentID=YOUR_YOUTUBE_VIDEOS_CONTENT_ID&MediaType=live

One method of performing the GET request is to open http://ROKU_IP:8060/query/apps in your web browser of choice. The Roku will return an XML-formatted list of available channels, including their full name and appID.

More details can be found on the Roku dev pages

To use this information in Home Assistant, the format is as follows. Note that source: is the appID you discovered in the API call:

action:
- data:
    entity_id: media_player.roku
    source: 20197
  service: media_player.select_source

It is also possible to tune directly to specific channels if you have a Roku TV and use an OTA antenna. This service only supports media_channel_type of 'channel'. media_content_id corresponds to the TV channel, which you should see when navigating to these on your TV UI.

action:
- data:
    entity_id: media_player.roku
    media_content_id: 5.1
    media_content_type: channel
  service: media_player.play_media

Remote

The remote platform allows you to send keypress commands to your device. Remote entities are automatically registered during the integration setup.

Services

Service roku.search

This service allows you to emulate opening the search screen and entering the search keyword.

Service data attribute	Optional	Description	Example
entity_id	yes	The entities to search on.	media_player.roku
keyword	no	The keyword to search for.	Space Jam