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KEF Instructions on how to integrate KEF Speakers into Home Assistant. kef.png
Media Player
Local Polling 0.104
@basnijholt

The kef platform allows you to control the KEF LS50 Wireless and KEF LSX speakers from Home Assistant.

Supported devices:

  • KEF LS50 Wireless
  • KEF LSX

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

Configuration

# Example configuration.yaml entry
media_player:
 - platform: kef
   host: IP_ADDRESS
   type: LS50

{% configuration %} host: description: "IP address of the device. Example: 192.168.1.32" required: true type: string type: description: The speaker type, either LS50 or LSX. required: true type: string name: description: The name of the device required: false default: KEF type: string port: description: The port of the device required: false default: 50001 type: integer maximum_volume: description: Maximum volume allowed. Number between 0 and 1. required: false default: 0.5 type: float volume_step: description: Volume step when increasing volume. required: false default: 0.05 type: float inverse_speaker_mode: description: Switch channels from L/R to R/L. required: false default: false type: boolean standby_time: description: The speakers automatically turn to standby mode after either 20 or 60 minutes. Leave out for the speaker to never go into standby mode. required: false type: integer supports_on: description: LS50 Wireless with a serial number below LS50W13074K24L/R2G do not support turning on the speakers over the network. Set this to false if you have an older model. default: true required: false type: integer {% endconfiguration %}

Advanced configuration example

# Example configuration.yaml entry
media_player:
 - platform: kef
   host: IP_ADDRESS
   type: LS50
   name: My KEF speakers
   maximum_volume: 0.6
   volume_step: 0.05

Notes:

  • The LS50 Wireless was tested with the latest firmware of 19-11-2019: p6.3001902221.105039422 and older firmware: p6.2101809171.105039422
  • The LSX Wireless was tested with the latest firmware of 10-10-2019 v4.1: p20.4101909240.105243