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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 variables:
- name (Optional): The name to use in the frontend.
- arguments (Optional): Additional arguments to be passed to VLC.
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.
{% linkable_title 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'
{% linkable_title 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
{% linkable_title Additional configuration for Rasperry Pi %}
You need to add the homeassistant user to the audio group:
sudo usermod -a -G audio homeassistant
{% linkable_title 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.