DLNA Digital Media Server in Home Assistant
dlna_dms
part of Home Assistant since 2022.3
DLNA Digital Media Server is an official Home Assistant integration for Media source. Talks to the device on your own network and asks for changes at regular intervals.
Facts about this integration
- Compatible with Home Assistant
- yes, official integration
- Connection
- Local, polling – Talks to the device on your own network and asks for changes at regular intervals.
- Setup
- in the user interface
- Kind
- Online service
- Installations
- 111,529 (16.3 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Media source
- Found automatically via
- Network discovery (SSDP)
- Maintained by
- @chishm
- Python packages
async-upnp-client==0.48.1
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 Server.
- 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
1 open issues and 0 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for DLNA Digital Media Server in the Home Assistant issue tracker.
Open
- open Reported problem #168768
Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of September 13, 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