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Jellyfin

The Jellyfin integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] exposes a Jellyfin server as a media source in Home Assistant. Support is currently limited to music, movie and TV show libraries only. Other libraries will not appear in the media browser. This integration has been tested with Jellyfin server version 10.6.4 and later.

Additionally, this integration sets up every media session connected to the Jellyfin server as a media player in Home Assistant to provide media controls for each session.

Browsing media inside Home Assistant in a player’s context provides all libraries of type Movie and Series.

This integration also creates a Remote entity for sending remote commands to the client, if supported. For example, this can be used to tell the client to navigate right twice, down once, and select the focused item:

jellyfin_remote_script:
  alias: "Jellyfin Remote Script"
  sequence:
    - action: remote.send_command
      target:
        entity_id: remote.jellyfin_client
      data:
        delay_secs: 1.5
        command:
          - MoveRight
          - MoveRight
          - MoveDown
          - Select

Configuration

To add the Jellyfin service to your Home Assistant instance, use this My button:

Manual configuration steps

If the above My button doesn’t work, you can also perform the following steps manually:

  • Browse to your Home Assistant instance.

  • Go to Settings > Devices & services.

  • In the bottom right corner, select the Add Integration button.

  • From the list, select Jellyfin.

  • Follow the instructions on screen to complete the setup.

URL

The URL of the Jellyfin server. Please supply the full URL including the protocol and optional webroot. For example https://media.example.com, http://10.1.1.100:8096 or http://home.example.com/jellyfin.

Username

The Jellyfin user whose libraries you want to retrieve.

Password

The password of the supplied user.

Options

To define options for Jellyfin, follow these steps:

  1. In Home Assistant, go to Settings > Devices & services.

  2. If multiple instances of Jellyfin are configured, choose the instance you want to configure.

  3. On the card, select the cogwheel .

    • If the card does not have a cogwheel, the integration does not support options for this device.

    Screenshot showing the cogwheel icon on an integration card in the Settings > Devices & services page

  4. Edit the options, then select Submit to save the changes.

Audio Codec

Sets the audio encoding codec to a Jellyfin API supported codec (aac, mp3, vorbis, wma)

Actions

Action browse media

You can use the media_player.browse_media action to step through your Jellyfin library to find media you want to play.

Data attribute Description
entity_id entity_id of the media player
media_content_id (optional) Unique identifier of the content you want to browse into

To start your browsing you don’t set media_content_id to browse the root node.

Examples: 

action: media_player.browse_media
target:
  entity_id: media_player.jellyfin
data:
  media_content_id: a656b907eb3a73532e40e44b968d0225

Response 

media_player.jellyfin:
  title: Series
  media_class: directory
  media_content_type: None
  media_content_id: a656b907eb3a73532e40e44b968d0225
  children_media_class: directory
  can_play: false
  can_expand: true
  can_search: false
  thumbnail: >-
    https://jellyfin
  not_shown: 0
  children:
    - title: "Tales of the Jedi"
      media_class: directory
      media_content_type: tvshow
      media_content_id: 34361f3855c9c0ac39b0f7503fe86be0
      children_media_class: null
      can_play: false
      can_expand: true
      can_search: false
      thumbnail: >-
        https://jellyfin

Action search media

You can use the media_player.search_media action to find media you want to play.

Data attribute Description
entity_id entity_id of the media player
search_query The search term

Examples: 

action: media_player.search_media
target:
  entity_id:
    - media_player.jellyfin
data:
  search_query: star

Response 

media_player.jellyfin:
  version: 1
  result:
    - title: Star Wars
      media_class: directory
      media_content_type: Video
      media_content_id: 895dc4e1066da92847d48f9be28eb77c
      children_media_class: null
      can_play: false
      can_expand: false
      can_search: false
      thumbnail: >-
        https://jellyfin
      not_shown: 0
      children: []
    - title: Star Trek
      media_class: directory
      media_content_type: Video
      media_content_id: 5ae55567cae75c26671a0a6b027bdd5b
      children_media_class: null
      can_play: false
      can_expand: false
      can_search: false
      thumbnail: >-
        https://jellyfin
      not_shown: 0
      children: []

Action play media

To play media on any player you first need to find the media_content_id of the content you want to play, through either browsing to the media or searching media.

Data attribute Description
entity_id entity_id of the media player
media_content_id Unique identifier of the content you want to play
media_content_type movie or tvshow

Examples:

Play a movie on one of the Jellyfin clients that supports playback.

action: media_player.play_media
target:
  entity_id:
    - media_player.jellyfin
data:
  media_content_id: a982a31451450daeda02c89952e6d7cf
  media_content_type: movie