DLNA Digital Media Renderer in Home Assistant
dlna_dmr
part of Home Assistant since 0.76
The DLNA Digital Media Renderer integration connects Home Assistant to DLNA-compatible devices, enabling control of media playback. It allows users to stream audio, video, and images to supported devices on the local network.
Typical uses
- Stream music to smart speakers
- Play videos on media players
- Display photos on TVs
- Access media libraries remotely
Facts about this integration
- Compatible with Home Assistant
- yes, official integration
- Connection
- Local, push – Talks to the device on your own network and is told about every change straight away.
- Setup
- in the user interface
- Kind
- Single device
- Installations
- 157,326 (21.9 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Media player
- Provides
- Media player
- Found automatically via
- Network discovery (SSDP)
- Maintained by
- @chishm
- Python packages
async-upnp-client==0.49.0, getmac==0.9.6
Setup
- Home Assistant can find this integration on its own: if it is suggested under Settings → Devices & services, confirm it there.
- In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
- Click "Add integration" and search for DLNA Digital Media Renderer.
- Follow the dialog – it asks for everything the integration needs.
The link goes through my.home-assistant.io and opens the setup dialog in your own instance – no address of ours is involved.
Known issues and fixes
0 open issues and 2 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for DLNA Digital Media Renderer in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.9.0.
Fixed
- fixed in 2026.9.0 Error messages were not displayed when actions failed due to unhandled exceptions.
Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of October 25, 2026. The sentences are written by a language model from the titles of the issues; the reports themselves are on GitHub.
Check a specific device for known problems in the product check →
Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration
The description was written by a language model from the facts listed here, not taken from the documentation.