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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
Connects Home Assistant to Radio Browser, an online directory of internet radio stations. Allows users to stream live radio and manage playlists through Home Assistant.
Typical uses
- Listen to live radio stations
- Discover new radio channels
- Integrate with media players
- Automate radio playback
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
- Installations
- 446,517 (65.3 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Media source, Multimedia
- Maintained by
- @frenck
- Python packages
radios==0.3.2, pycountry==24.6.1
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.