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KEF in Home Assistant
kef
part of Home Assistant since 0.104
Local, polling
Quality: Not rated
KEF is an official Home Assistant integration for Media player. 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 configuration.yaml
- Kind
- Integration
- Quality scale
- Not rated – Older than the quality scale and not rated against it yet – that says nothing about whether it works.
- Installations
- 83
- Categories
- Media player
- Provides
- Media player
- Maintained by
- @basnijholt
- Python packages
aiokef==0.2.16, getmac==0.9.5
Setup
- This integration is set up in configuration.yaml, not in the user interface.
- The documentation lists the exact entries; restart Home Assistant after adding them.
Community versions in HACS
These extensions use the same domain. Installed through HACS, one of them takes the place of the official integration – usually to bring a feature or a fix sooner. Remove it again once Home Assistant has caught up.
- HACS KEF – Local-first KEF integration for Home Assistant supporting modern and legacy speaker families.
Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration