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LinkPlay in Home Assistant

linkplay part of Home Assistant since 2024.8

Local, polling Set up in the user interface

LinkPlay 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 the user interface
Kind
Hub – several devices through one gateway or account
Installations
6,671 (1.0 % of the installations that share statistics)
Categories
Media player
Provides
Button, Diagnostics, Media player, Select
Found automatically via
Network discovery (Zeroconf)
Maintained by
@Velleman
Python packages
python-linkplay==0.2.14

Setup

  1. Home Assistant can find this integration on its own: if it is suggested under Settings → Devices & services, confirm it there.
  2. In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
  3. Click "Add integration" and search for LinkPlay.
  4. 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.

Known issues and fixes

6 open issues and 3 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for LinkPlay in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.6.1.

Open

  • open Reported problem #162981 since February 14, 2026 · 2 reactions · 13 comments · #162981
  • open Reported problem #159602 since December 22, 2025 · 2 reactions · 9 comments · #159602
  • open Reported problem #133225 since December 14, 2024 · 1 reaction · 19 comments · #133225
  • open Reported problem #154065 since October 9, 2025 · 0 reactions · 7 comments · #154065
  • open Reported problem #178672 since August 10, 2026 · 0 reactions · 1 comment · #178672
  • open Reported problem #168779 since April 22, 2026 · 0 reactions · 1 comment · #168779

Fixed

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

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