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Radio Browser in Home Assistant
radio_browser
part of Home Assistant since 2022.3
Cloud, polling
Set up in the user interface
Quality: Platinum
The Radio Browser integration connects Home Assistant to an online directory of internet radio stations. It allows users to stream live radio content from around the world through voice commands or automation.
Typical uses
- Stream live music channels
- Listen to news and talk shows
- Automate radio playback based on time or events
Facts about this integration
- Compatible with Home Assistant
- yes, official integration
- Connection
- Cloud, polling – Works through the manufacturer’s cloud and asks for changes at regular intervals – it depends on the internet connection and the service.
- Setup
- in the user interface
- Kind
- Online service
- Quality scale
- Platinum – The highest level: fully typed, efficient and maintained to every rule of the project.
- Installations
- 470,409 (65.6 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Media source, Multimedia
- Maintained by
- @frenck
- Python packages
radios==2.0.1
Setup
- In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
- Click "Add integration" and search for Radio Browser.
- 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.
Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration
The description was written by a language model from the facts listed here, not taken from the documentation.