🎬Media Player

Control your media

MQTT integration for a media player is not supported by home assistant, so a custom addon must be installed. Using HACS you can install the MQTT Media Player integration for creating a new media_player entity.

Once installed you need to restart your Home Assistant instance and add the MQTT Media Player integration from devices & services page. You can find the appropriate input name under the logs of LNXlink.

It supports playing remote or local media using cvlc which should be installed on your system.

Text To Speech

service: tts.google_say
data:
  entity_id: media_player.desktop_linux
  message: Hello world!

Play Media

service: media_player.play_media
data:
  media_content_id: /home/user/imag.jpg
  media_content_type: media  # Not used, but required by home assistant
target:
  entity_id: media_player.desktop_linux

Stream Camera

service: camera.play_stream
data:
  media_player: media_player.desktop_linux
target:
  entity_id: camera.demo_camera

Volume change by a predefined step

service: media_player.volume_set
data:
  volume_level: '{{ state_attr("media_player.desktop_linux", "volume_level") - 0.01 }}'
target:
  entity_id: media_player.desktop_linux