Kodi in Home Assistant
kodi
part of Home Assistant since pre 0.7
Kodi is an official Home Assistant integration for Media player, Media source and Notifications. Talks to the device on your own network and is told about every change straight away.
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
- Online service
- Installations
- 6,843 (1.0 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Media player, Media source, Notifications
- Provides
- Media player, Notifications
- Found automatically via
- Network discovery (Zeroconf)
- Maintained by
- @OnFreund
- Python packages
pykodi==0.2.7
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 Kodi.
- 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 2 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for Kodi in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.4.4.
Open
- open Reported problem #170619
Fixed
- fixed in 2026.4.4 Bug fix #165819
- fixed in 2025.11.3 Bug fix #155971
Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of September 16, 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