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Plex Media Server in Home Assistant

plex part of Home Assistant since 0.7.4

Local, push Set up in the user interface

Plex Media Server is an official Home Assistant integration for Button, Media player, Sensor and Update. 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
19,461 (2.8 % of the installations that share statistics)
Categories
Button, Media player, Sensor, Update
Provides
Button, Media player, Sensor, Update
Found automatically via
Network discovery (Zeroconf)
Maintained by
@jjlawren
Python packages
PlexAPI==4.18.2, plexauth==0.0.6, plexwebsocket==0.0.14

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 Plex Media Server.
  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.

Matching add-ons

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

Known issues and fixes

4 open issues and 1 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for Plex Media Server in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.9.0.

Open

  • open Reported problem #173564 since June 11, 2026 · 0 reactions · 9 comments · #173564
  • open Reported problem #169896 since May 6, 2026 · 0 reactions · 3 comments · #169896
  • open Reported problem #181394 since September 5, 2026 · 0 reactions · 2 comments · #181394
  • open Reported problem #176090 since July 9, 2026 · 0 reactions · 1 comment · #176090

Fixed

Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of September 14, 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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