VLC media player via Telnet
The VLC media player via Telnet integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] allows you to control a VLC media player
This action will control any instance of VLC player on the network with the telnet interface activated.
To activate the telnet interface on your VLC Player please read the official VLC documentation
In case the VLC is running on a host with a locale other than English, you may get some errors during the volume change.
This is related to the different use of the decimal separator in other countries.
Consider to set the locale to en_US
before starting VLC.
Configuration
To add the VLC media player via Telnet integration to your Home Assistant instance, use this My button:
Manual configuration steps
If the above My button doesn’t work, you can also perform the following steps manually:
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Browse to your Home Assistant instance.
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In the bottom right corner, select the
Add Integration button. -
From the list, select VLC media player via Telnet.
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Follow the instructions on screen to complete the setup.
Actions
When using the media_player.play_media
action, only the “music” media type is supported for now.
Home Assistant add-on
You can run a VLC Media Player on your Home Assistant installation using the official VLC add-on/share
and /media
folder of your Home Assistant installation.