Home Assistant

Unitymedia Horizon HD Recorder

The horizon integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] allows you to control a Unitymedia Horizon HD Recorder from Home Assistant.

To add a Horizon HD Recorder to your installation, add the following to your configuration.yamlThe configuration.yaml file is the main configuration file for Home Assistant. It lists the integrations to be loaded and their specific configurations. In some cases, the configuration needs to be edited manually directly in the configuration.yaml file. Most integrations can be configured in the UI.[Learn more] file. After changing the configuration.yamlThe configuration.yaml file is the main configuration file for Home Assistant. It lists the integrations to be loaded and their specific configurations. In some cases, the configuration needs to be edited manually directly in the configuration.yaml file. Most integrations can be configured in the UI.[Learn more] file, restart Home Assistant to apply the changes. To view the changes, go to Settings > Devices & services > Entities.

# Example configuration.yaml entry
media_player:
  - platform: horizon
    host: 192.168.0.127

Configuration Variables

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host string Required

The hostname or address of the device.

port integer (Optional)

The port of the device to connect to.

name string (Optional)

The name of the device used in the frontend.

Preparation of the Horizon HD Recorder

The Home Networking (“Heimnetzwerk”) service needs to be enabled at the settings menu of the Horizon receiver. Once you have set up the Media Library (“Medienbibliothek”), we can determine whether the device is turned on or off. Without this, the integration will fail to start.

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