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LinkPlay

The LinkPlay integrationsIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] for Home Assistant allows you to control various media players based on the LinkPlay protocol. The integration supports auto-discovery on your local network through Zeroconf.

Configuration

To add the LinkPlay integration to your Home Assistant instance, use this My button:

LinkPlay can be auto-discovered by Home Assistant. If an instance was found, it will be shown as Discovered. You can then set it up right away.

Manual configuration steps

If it wasn’t discovered automatically, don’t worry! You can set up a manual integration entry:

  • 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 LinkPlay.

  • Follow the instructions on screen to complete the setup.

Features

Media Player

The media player entity offers robust controls and playback features from the media player integration and provides additionally:

  • Preset playback: Play LinkPlay presets configured on the device using the action linkplay.play_preset.
  • Multiroom: Combine multiple LinkPlay devices in a multiroom. Use the actions media_player.join and media_player.unjoin.

Buttons

The button entities provide some additional LinkPlay features available on the device:

  • Time Sync: Synchronize the device’s internal clock with the current time in Home Assistant.
  • Restart Device: Reboot the device, allowing for convenient troubleshooting and maintenance.

Actions

The LinkPlay integration makes various custom actions available in addition to the standard media player actions.

Action linkplay.play_preset

Play a preset on a LinkPlay media player.

Note

Companion apps, such as 4stream, allow to save music presets (for example, Spotify playlists). This action can be used to start playing these presets.

Data attribute Optional Description
entity_id no The speakers to target. To target all LinkPlay devices, use all.
preset_number no The number of the preset to play.