developers.home-assistant/docs/core/entity/media-player.md

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Media Player Entity	Media Player

:::info Incomplete This entry is incomplete. Contribution welcome. ::: A media player entity controls a media player. Derive a platform entity from homeassistant.components.media_player.MediaPlayerEntity.

Properties

:::tip Properties should always only return information from memory and not do I/O (like network requests). Implement update() or async_update() to fetch data. :::

Name	Type	Default	Description
supported_features	int	int	Flag supported features.
sound_mode	string	None	The current sound mode of the media player
sound_mode_list	list	None	Dynamic list of available sound modes (set by platform, empty means sound mode not supported)
source	string	None	The currently selected input source for the media player.
source_list	list	None	The list of possible input sources for the media player. (This list should contain human readable names, suitable for frontend display)
media_image_url	string	None	URL that represents the current image.
media_image_remotely_accessible	boolean	False	Return True if property media_image_url is accessible outside of the home network.
device_class	string	None	Type of media player.
group_members	list	None	A dynamic list of player entities which are currently grouped together for synchronous playback. If the platform has a concept of defining a group leader, the leader should be the first element in that list.

Supported Features

Supported features are defined by using values in the MediaPlayerEntityFeature enum and are combined using the bitwise or (|) operator.

Value	Description
BROWSE_MEDIA	Entity allows browsing media.
CLEAR_PLAYLIST	Entity allows clearing the active playlist.
GROUPING	Entity can be grouped with other players for synchronous playback.
MEDIA_ANNOUNCE	Entity supports the play_media service's announce parameter.
MEDIA_ENQUEUE	Entity supports the play_media service's enqueue parameter.
NEXT_TRACK	Entity allows skipping to the next media track.
PAUSE	Entity allows pausing the playback of media.
PLAY	Entity allows playing/resuming playback of media.
PLAY_MEDIA	Entity allows playing media sources.
PREVIOUS_TRACK	Entity allows returning back to a previous media track.
REPEAT_SET	Entity allows setting repeat.
SEEK	Entity allows seeking position during playback of media.
SELECT_SOUND_MODE	Entity allows selecting a sound mode.
SELECT_SOURCE	Entity allows selecting a source/input.
SHUFFLE_SET	Entity allows shuffling the active playlist.
STOP	Entity allows stopping the playback of media.
TURN_OFF	Entity is able to be turned off.
TURN_ON	Entity is able to be turned on.
VOLUME_MUTE	Entity volume can be muted.
VOLUME_SET	Entity volume can be set to specific levels.
VOLUME_STEP	Entity volume can be adjusted up and down.

States

The state of a media player is defined by using values in the MediaPlayerState enum, and can take the following possible values.

Value	Description
OFF	Entity is turned off and is not accepting commands until turned on.
ON	Entity is turned on, but no details on its state is currently known.
IDLE	Entity is turned on and accepting commands, but currently not playing any media. Possibly at some idle home screen.
PLAYING	Entity is currently playing media.
PAUSED	Entity has an active media and is currently paused
STANDBY	Entity is in a low power state, accepting commands.
BUFFERING	Entity is preparing to start playback of some media

Methods

Play Media

Tells the media player to play media. Implement it using the following:

class MyMediaPlayer(MediaPlayerEntity):

    def play_media(
        self,
        media_type: str,
        media_id: str,
        enqueue: MediaPlayerEnqueue | None = None,
        announce: bool | None = None, **kwargs: Any
    ) -> None:
        """Play a piece of media."""

    async def async_play_media(
        self,
        media_type: str,
        media_id: str,
        enqueue: MediaPlayerEnqueue | None = None,
        announce: bool | None = None, **kwargs: Any
    ) -> None:
        """Play a piece of media."""

The enqueue attribute is a string enum MediaPlayerEnqueue:

• add: add given media item to end of the queue
• next: play the given media item next, keep queue
• play: play the given media item now, keep queue
• replace: play the given media item now, clear queue

When the announce boolean attribute is set to true, the media player should try to pause the current music, announce the media to the user and then resume the music.

Browse Media

If the media player supports browsing media, it should implement the following method:

class MyMediaPlayer(MediaPlayerEntity):

    async def async_browse_media(
        self, media_content_type: str | None = None, media_content_id: str | None = None
    ) -> BrowseMedia:
        """Implement the websocket media browsing helper."""
        return await media_source.async_browse_media(
            self.hass,
            media_content_id,
            content_filter=lambda item: item.media_content_type.startswith("audio/"),
        )

If the media player also allows playing media from URLs, you can also add support for browsing Home Assistant media sources. These sources can be provided by any integration. Examples provide text-to-speech and local media.

from homeassistant.components import media_source
from homeassistant.components.media_player.browse_media import (
    async_process_play_media_url,
)

class MyMediaPlayer(MediaPlayerEntity):

    async def async_browse_media(
        self, media_content_type: str | None = None, media_content_id: str | None = None
    ) -> BrowseMedia:
        """Implement the websocket media browsing helper."""
        # If your media player has no own media sources to browse, route all browse commands
        # to the media source integration.
        return await media_source.async_browse_media(
            self.hass,
            media_content_id,
            # This allows filtering content. In this case it will only show audio sources.
            content_filter=lambda item: item.media_content_type.startswith("audio/"),
        )

    async def async_play_media(
        self,
        media_type: str,
        media_id: str,
        enqueue: MediaPlayerEnqueue | None = None,
        announce: bool | None = None, **kwargs: Any
    ) -> None:
        """Play a piece of media."""
        if media_source.is_media_source_id(media_id):
            media_type = MediaType.MUSIC
            play_item = await media_source.async_resolve_media(self.hass, media_id, self.entity_id)
            # play_item returns a relative URL if it has to be resolved on the Home Assistant host
            # This call will turn it into a full URL
            media_id = async_process_play_media_url(self.hass, play_item.url)

        # Replace this with calling your media player play media function.
        await self._media_player.play_url(media_id)

Select sound mode

Optional. Switch the sound mode of the media player.

class MyMediaPlayer(MediaPlayerEntity):
    # Implement one of these methods.

    def select_sound_mode(self, sound_mode):
        """Switch the sound mode of the entity."""

    def async_select_sound_mode(self, sound_mode):
        """Switch the sound mode of the entity."""

Select source

Optional. Switch the selected input source for the media player.

class MyMediaPlayer(MediaPlayerEntity):
    # Implement one of these methods.

    def select_source(self, source):
        """Select input source."""

    def async_select_source(self, source):
        """Select input source."""

Mediatype

Required. Returns one of the values from the MediaType enum that matches the mediatype

CONST
MediaType.MUSIC
MediaType.TVSHOW
MediaType.MOVIE
MediaType.VIDEO
MediaType.EPISODE
MediaType.CHANNEL
MediaType.PLAYLIST
MediaType.IMAGE
MediaType.URL
MediaType.GAME
MediaType.APP

class MyMediaPlayer(MediaPlayerEntity):
    # Implement the following method.

    @property
    def media_content_type(self):
    """Content type of current playing media."""

:::info Using the integration name as the media_content_type is also acceptable within the play_media service if the integration provides handling which does not map to the defined constants. :::

Available device classes

Optional. What type of media device is this. It will possibly map to google device types.

Value	Description
tv	Device is a television type device.
speaker	Device is speakers or stereo type device.
receiver	Device is audio video receiver type device taking audio and outputting to speakers and video to some display.

Proxy album art for media browser

Optional. If your media player is only accessible from the internal network, it will need to proxy the album art via Home Assistant to be able to work while away from home or through a mobile app.

To proxy an image via Home Assistant, set the thumbnail property of a BrowseMedia item to a url generated by the self.get_browse_image_url(media_content_type, media_content_id, media_image_id=None) method. The browser will then fetch this url, which will result in a call to async_get_browse_image(media_content_type, media_content_id, media_image_id=None).

:::info Only use a proxy for the thumbnail if the web request originated from outside the network. You can test this with is_local_request(hass) imported from homeassistant.helpers.network. :::

In async_get_browse_image, use self._async_fetch_image(url) to fetch the image from the local network. Do not use self._async_fetch_image_from_cache(url) which should only be used to for the currently playing artwork.

:::info Do not pass an url as media_image_id. This can allow an attacker to fetch any data from the local network. :::

class MyMediaPlayer(MediaPlayerEntity):

    # Implement the following method.
    async def async_get_browse_image(self, media_content_type, media_content_id, media_image_id=None):
    """Serve album art. Returns (content, content_type)."""
    image_url = ...
    return await self._async_fetch_image(image_url)

Grouping player entities together

Optional. If your player has support for grouping player entities together for synchronous playback (indicated by SUPPORT_GROUPING) one join and one unjoin method needs to be defined.

class MyMediaPlayer(MediaPlayerEntity):
    # Implement one of these join methods:

    def join_players(self, group_members):
        """Join `group_members` as a player group with the current player."""

    async def async_join_players(self, group_members):
        """Join `group_members` as a player group with the current player."""

    # Implement one of these unjoin methods:

    def unjoin_player(self):
        """Remove this player from any group."""

    async def async_unjoin_player(self):
        """Remove this player from any group."""