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| VLC | Instructions on how to integrate VLC media player into Home Assistant. | videolan.png |
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The vlc platform allows you to control VLC media player.
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 Rasperry Pi
You need to add the homeassistant user to the audio group:
sudo usermod -a -G audio homeassistant
VLC currently not supported with Hass.io
According to the forum topic "How to add VLC into my Hassio", it is not possible to install packages like VLC on Hass.io.