Media & entertainment
Companion Media Player
echocat/ha-companion-media-player · v0.2.2
HACSLocal push
Adds Media-Player Entity of Companion Apps to Home Assistant.
In Apple Home through HomeKit Bridge
What HomeKit Bridge makes of each kind of entity this integration creates, read from its source code. A device only gets the ones that apply to it.
| Entity | Shows up as | Note |
|---|---|---|
media_player | TV, receiver or media switches | Needs its own HomeKit Bridge in accessory mode |
How it connects
Local push
Talks to the device on your network, and the device tells Home Assistant the moment something changes.
Details
| Installs (analytics) | 126 (0.02%) |
|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 8 |
| Latest version | 0.2.2 (2026-10-20) |
| Set up in the UI | Yes |
| Maintainers | @echocat |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
In ReReHome
Whatever HomeKit Bridge shares reaches Apple Home as normal HomeKit accessories behind your Home Assistant bridge, so ReReHome shows and controls them like any other.
Bridges get their own settings page listing the accessories behind them.
