VLC player Add as Media Player

Feature Requests
1

Please, make it posible to use VLC player.
It has a webservices in it, you can use for example port :8080
It can play everything. Songs, youtube playlist, streams, live tv channels.

Thanks!

2

Here is a start:

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3

It is now officially supported in HA but I have no idea on how to make use of it.

This is what I have in my config…

media_player:
  - platform: vlc
    name: VLC

After I add it, I can see it created a new entity called media_player.vlc in Dev tools > States.

Now, how do I make use of it? How to verify that it is working?

4

You can call a service to use it: https://home-assistant.io/components/media_player/
To test it, go to your_ip:8123/dev-service

5

How does one use this platform? Which VLC interface does it use? Can’t get it to do anything. I’m on Ubuntu.

edit: nevermind, it was this.

6

Wonder if this is a correct topic. But is there anyway to set - up buffering for vlc?

7

Might be possible with a command line argument ?

8

Hey @Danielhiversen, is there any way to play a YouTube video using VLC media player inside Home Assistant?

9

I get

Oct 10 14:46:05 eXpeditious hass[8628]: [b325e070] vlcpulse audio output error: PulseAudio server connection failure: Connection refused

when my instance starts with this configuration

media_player:
  - platform: vlc
    name: VLC

what am I doing wrong? VLC works via the command line and in the X