VLC media player via Telnet in Home Assistant
vlc_telnet
part of Home Assistant since 0.95
VLC media player via Telnet 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
- Online service
- Installations
- 9,696 (1.4 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Media player
- Provides
- Media player
- Maintained by
- @rodripf, @MartinHjelmare
- Python packages
aiovlc==0.5.1
Setup
- In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
- Click "Add integration" and search for VLC media player via Telnet.
- 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.
Matching add-ons
Add-ons that declare a connection to this integration in their own configuration.
Known issues and fixes
1 open issues and 1 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for VLC media player via Telnet in the Home Assistant issue tracker.
Open
- open Reported problem #174865
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