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The Channels platform allows you to control Channels from Home Assistant. Play, pause, seek, or skip commercials on an instance of Channels that is running on your network.

Your favorite channels will appear as sources in the Source List in Home Assistant.

To add Channels to your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
media_player:
  - platform: channels
    name: Family Room Channels
    host: 192.168.1.50

{% configuration %} host: description: The IP address of the device running Channels, e.g., 192.168.1.50. required: true type: string port: description: The port where Channels is accessible. required: false default: 57000 type: integer name: description: The name of the Channels instance in Home Assistant, e.g., Family Room Channels. required: false default: Channels type: string {% endconfiguration %}

{% linkable_title Service channels_seek_forward %}

Seek forward by the number of seconds currently set in settings on the instance of Channels.

Service data attribute	Optional	Description
entity_id	no	String that points at entity_id of Channels app.

{% linkable_title Service channels_seek_backward %}

Seek backward by the number of seconds currently set in settings on the instance of Channels.

Service data attribute	Optional	Description
entity_id	no	String that points at entity_id of Channels app.

{% linkable_title Service channels_seek_by %}

Seek forward or backward by a provided number of seconds.

Service data attribute	Optional	Description
entity_id	no	String that points at entity_id of Channels app.
seconds	no	Number of seconds to seek in the timeline by. Negative seconds seeks backwards.