basnijholt / media_player.kef

🏠🔈 Home Assistant integration for KEF LS50 Wireless and LSX speakers

CHECK OUT https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/kef/ (which is more up-to-date)

Home Assistant custom_component for KEF speakers

Supported: KEF LS50 Wireless (tested with latest firmware at 08-11-2019, p6.2101809171.105039422) Untested: KEF LSX

Supported features

• Get and set volume
• Mute and unmute
• Get and set source input
• Turn speaker on and off
• Automatically connects and disconnects when speakers goes online/offline

Use in Home Assistant

Install

(Recommended) Installation with HACS. Go to the HACS store and install KEF.

(Alternative) Manual installation. Download the repo. Create folder in your home assistant config folder:

mkdir -p /path/to/config/custom_components/
cp -r media_player.kef/custom_components/kef /path/to/config/custom_components/

Configure

Add the component to Home Assistant by adding the following to configuration.yaml:

media_player:
  - platform: kef
    host: 192.168.x.x  # the IP of your speaker
    type: LS50  # or LSX
    name: MyAwesomeSpeaker  # optional, the name in Home Assistant
    maximum_volume: 0.5  # optional, to avoid extremely loud volumes
    volume_step: 0.05  # optional
    inverse_speaker_mode: false  # optional, switch L/R to R/L
    standby_time: 20  # optional, either 20 or 60 (in minutes) or leave out for an infinite standby time

Discussion

See this Home Assistant discussion thread where the creation of the KEF speakers is discussed.

License

MIT License

Contributions

• Bas Nijholt
• Robin Grönberg (@Gronis)
• Bastian Beggel (@bastianbeggel)
• chimpy (@chimpy)

media_player.kef's Issues

improve score

see https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/en/integration_quality_scale_index.html

The component does not load in HASS v0.115.3

I put the component into custome_components and configured the media-player entries, but upon HASS restart it gives me this error in logs:

 Sep 30 12:05:06 raspberrypi hass[29538]:     return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
Sep 30 12:05:06 raspberrypi hass[29538]:   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _gcd_import
Sep 30 12:05:06 raspberrypi hass[29538]:   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 983, in _find_and_load
Sep 30 12:05:06 raspberrypi hass[29538]:   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 967, in _find_and_load_unlocked
Sep 30 12:05:06 raspberrypi hass[29538]:   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 677, in _load_unlocked
Sep 30 12:05:06 raspberrypi hass[29538]:   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 728, in exec_module
Sep 30 12:05:06 raspberrypi hass[29538]:   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
Sep 30 12:05:06 raspberrypi hass[29538]:   File "/home/pi/.homeassistant/custom_components/kef/media_player.py", line 10, in <module>
Sep 30 12:05:06 raspberrypi hass[29538]:     from custom_components.kef_custom.aiokef import (
Sep 30 12:05:06 raspberrypi hass[29538]: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'custom_components.kef_custom'