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YouTube in Home Assistant
youtube
part of Home Assistant since 2023.6
Cloud, polling
Set up in the user interface
YouTube is an official Home Assistant integration for Sensor. Works through the manufacturer’s cloud and asks for changes at regular intervals – it depends on the internet connection and the service.
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
- 967 (0.1 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Sensor
- Provides
- Diagnostics, Sensor
- Maintained by
- @joostlek
- Python packages
youtubeaio==2.1.2
Setup
- In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
- Click "Add integration" and search for YouTube.
- 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.
Community versions in HACS
These extensions use the same domain. Installed through HACS, one of them takes the place of the official integration – usually to bring a feature or a fix sooner. Remove it again once Home Assistant has caught up.
- HACS youtube – A platform which give you info about the newest video on a channel
Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration