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| VLC media player | Instructions on how to integrate VLC media player into Home Assistant. | videolan.png |
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0.35 | Local Polling |
The vlc platform allows you to control VLC media player.
The VLC media player integration, is currently only available for installations that are based on the Home Assistant Core in a Python virtual environment.
Configuration
To add a VLC media player to your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:
# Example configuration.yaml entry
media_player:
- platform: vlc
{% configuration %} name: description: The name to use in the frontend. required: false type: string arguments: description: Additional arguments to be passed to VLC. required: false type: string {% endconfiguration %}
Only the "music" media type is supported for now.
This service will control a background VLC instance, therefore you cannot use this to control a VLC instance launched on your desktop, unlike the Kodi media player for example.
Full configuration
A full configuration for VLC could look like the one below:
# Example configuration.yaml entry
media_player:
- platform: vlc
name: speaker_1
arguments: '--alsa-audio-device=hw:1,0'
Additional configuration on macOS
On macOS python-vlc won’t find the VLC plugin directory unless you add this to the user’s .bash_profile that is running Home Assistant:
export VLC_PLUGIN_PATH=$VLC_PLUGIN_PATH:/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins
Additional configuration for Raspberry Pi
You need to add the homeassistant user to the audio group:
sudo usermod -a -G audio homeassistant