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Jellyfin in Home Assistant

jellyfin part of Home Assistant since 2021.12

Local, polling Set up in the user interface

Jellyfin is an official Home Assistant integration for Media player, Media source, Remote and Sensor. 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
8,206 (1.2 % of the installations that share statistics)
Categories
Media player, Media source, Remote, Sensor
Provides
Diagnostics, Media player, Remote, Sensor
Maintained by
@RunC0deRun, @ctalkington
Python packages
jellyfin-apiclient-python==1.16.0

Setup

  1. In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
  2. Click "Add integration" and search for Jellyfin.
  3. Follow the dialog – it asks for everything the integration needs.

Add to my Home Assistant

The link goes through my.home-assistant.io and opens the setup dialog in your own instance – no address of ours is involved.

Matching add-ons

Add-ons that declare a connection to this integration in their own configuration.

Known issues and fixes

6 open issues and 4 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for Jellyfin in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.6.0.

Open

  • open Reported problem #108276 since January 18, 2024 · 3 reactions · 35 comments · #108276
  • open Reported problem #146995 since June 16, 2025 · 2 reactions · 14 comments · #146995
  • open Reported problem #122826 since July 30, 2024 · 1 reaction · 31 comments · #122826
  • open Reported problem #155060 since October 23, 2025 · 1 reaction · 11 comments · #155060
  • open Reported problem #165063 since March 7, 2026 · 0 reactions · 6 comments · #165063
  • open Reported problem #163187 since February 16, 2026 · 0 reactions · 5 comments · #163187

Fixed

Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of September 15, 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

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