Media Player Components

The media_player domain includes all platforms that implement media player functionality.

Note

ESPHome media players require Home Assistant 2022.6 or newer.

Base Media Player Configuration

media_player:
  - platform: ...
    name: "Media Player Name"

Configuration variables:

  • id (Optional, string): Manually specify the ID for code generation. At least one of id and name must be specified.

  • name (Optional, string): The name of the media player. At least one of id and name must be specified.

    Note

    If you have a friendly_name set for your device and you want the media player to use that name, you can set name: None.

  • icon (Optional, icon): Manually set the icon to use for the media player in the frontend.

  • internal (Optional, boolean): Mark this component as internal. Internal components will not be exposed to the frontend (like Home Assistant). Only specifying an id without a name will implicitly set this to true.

  • disabled_by_default (Optional, boolean): If true, then this entity should not be added to any client’s frontend, (usually Home Assistant) without the user manually enabling it (via the Home Assistant UI). Defaults to false.

  • entity_category (Optional, string): The category of the entity. See https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/core/entity/#generic-properties for a list of available options. Set to "" to remove the default entity category.

Media Player Actions

All media_player actions can be used without specifying an id if you have only one media_player in your configuration YAML.

Configuration variables:

id (Optional, ID): The media player to control. Defaults to the only one in YAML.

media_player.play Action

This action will resume playing the media player.

media_player.play_media Action

This action will start playing the specified media.

on_...:
  # Simple
  - media_player.play_media: 'http://media-url/media.mp3'

  # Full
  - media_player.play_media:
      id: media_player_id
      media_url: 'http://media-url/media.mp3'

  # Simple with lambda
  - media_player.play_media: !lambda 'return "http://media-url/media.mp3";'

Configuration variables:

media_url (Required, string): The media url to play.

media_player.pause Action

This action pauses the current playback.

media_player.stop Action

This action stops the current playback.

media_player.toggle Action

This action will pause or resume the current playback.

media_player.volume_up Action

This action will increase the volume of the media player.

media_player.volume_down Action

This action will decrease the volume of the media player.

media_player.volume_set Action

This action will set the volume of the media player.

on_...:
  # Simple
  - media_player.volume_set: 50%

  # Full
  - media_player.volume_set:
      id: media_player_id
      volume: 50%

  # Simple with lambda
  - media_player.volume_set: !lambda "return 0.5;"

Configuration variables:

volume (Required, percentage): The volume to set the media player to.

media_player.on_state Trigger

This trigger is activated each time the state of the media player is updated (for example, if the player is stop playing audio or received some command).

media_player:
  - platform: i2s_audio  # or any other platform
    # ...
    on_state:
      - logger.log: "State updated!"

media_player.on_play Trigger

This trigger is activated each time then the media player is started playing.

media_player:
  - platform: i2s_audio  # or any other platform
    # ...
    on_play:
      - logger.log: "Playback started!"

media_player.on_pause Trigger

This trigger is activated every time the media player pauses playback.

media_player:
  - platform: i2s_audio  # or any other platform
    # ...
    on_pause:
      - logger.log: "Playback paused!"

media_player.on_idle Trigger

This trigger is activated every time the media player finishes playing.

media_player:
  - platform: i2s_audio  # or any other platform
    # ...
    on_idle:
      - logger.log: "Playback finished!"

media_player.on_announcement Trigger

This trigger is activated every time the media player plays an announcement.

media_player:
  - platform: i2s_audio  # or any other platform
    # ...
    on_announcement:
      - logger.log: "Announcing!"

media_player.is_idle Condition

This condition checks if the media player is idle.

# In some trigger:
on_...:
  if:
    condition:
      media_player.is_idle:

media_player.is_playing Condition

This condition checks if the media player is playing media.

# In some trigger:
on_...:
  if:
    condition:
      media_player.is_playing:

media_player.is_paused Condition

This condition checks if the media player is paused.

# In some trigger:
on_...:
  if:
    condition:
      media_player.is_paused:

media_player.is_announcing Condition

This condition checks if the media player is playing an announcement.

# In some trigger:
on_...:
  if:
    condition:
      media_player.is_announcing:

Play media in order

You can use wait automation to play files one after the other:

# In some trigger:
on_...:
  then:
    - media_player.play_media: 'http://media-url/one.mp3'
    - wait_until:
        media_player.is_idle:
    - media_player.play_media: 'http://media-url/two.mp3'

See Also