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| Media Source | Instructions on how to access your media with Home Assistant. |
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The Media Source integration platform allows integrations to expose media for
use inside Home Assistant through the Media Browser panel or through supported
media players like Google Cast. This integration is configured automatically
through default_config or if another integration implements a media source.
If your configuration does not contain any of the above, you can add the below to your configuration file:
# Example configuration.yaml entry
media_source:
Local Media
By default, the integration looks for media in a specified folder.
If other media_dirs are not declared you need to use /media/local path for
example in companion app notification.
For Home Assistant OS, Supervised and Container users, this folder is by default
configured in the path /media.
Home Assistant OS and Supervised users can access this folder by using,
for example, the Samba add-on. Users of Home Assistant Container can
mount a volume of their choice to /media.
If you are a Home Assistant Core user, the default directory called is called
media under the configuration path (where your configuration.yaml is located).
Files served from media are protected by Home Assistant authentication
unlike those served from www.
Using custom or additional media folders
It is also possible to set up custom and additional media directories. To do so, you'll need to adjust the core configuration.
This example makes two different folders available to the integration:
# Example configuration.yaml
homeassistant:
media_dirs:
local: /media
recording: /mnt/recordings
Playing media from a Media Source
To play media from a media source via a service call, use the uri scheme media-source://media_source/<media_dir>/<path>.
Default media_diris local.
Example:
service: media_player.play_media
target:
entity_id: media_player.living_room_tv
data:
media_content_type: video/mp4
media_content_id: media-source://media_source/local/videos/favourites/Epic Sax Guy 10 Hours.mp4