MusicCast in Home Assistant
yamaha_musiccast
part of Home Assistant since 0.53
MusicCast is an official Home Assistant integration for Media player. 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
- Single device
- Installations
- 9,894 (1.4 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Media player
- Provides
- Media player, Number, Select, Switch
- Found automatically via
- Network discovery (SSDP)
- Maintained by
- @vigonotion, @micha91
- Python packages
aiomusiccast==0.15.0
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 MusicCast.
- 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
2 open issues and 6 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for MusicCast in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.8.0.
Open
- open Reported problem #141402
- open Reported problem #170650
Fixed
- fixed in 2026.8.0 Bug fix #178172
- fixed in 2026.6.0 Bug fix #172411
- fixed in 2026.4.0 Bug fix #166644
- fixed in 2025.10.4 Bug fix #154980
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