Media & entertainment

HiFiBerry

willholdoway/hifiberry · v0.1.11

HACSLocal polling

This is a custom component to allow control of HifiberryOS devices in Home Assistant using the audiocontrol2 REST API.

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

What people report

HiFiBerry OS players are controlled locally via the AudioControl API; the integration was migrated to the HBOS NG REST API in 2026.

Works1
Not working1

Device	In Home Assistant	In Apple Home	What they said	Source
HiFiBerry (HBOS NG AudioControl)	Works Local		Migrated to HBOS NG AudioControl REST API Saved copy Summary Migrates the HiFiBerry custom integration from the legacy `pyhifiberry` / `audiocontrol2` socket.io client to the current HBOS NG AudioControl REST API. ## What Changed - Adds a local `AudioControlClient` for HBOS NG REST endpoints. - Switches setup and validation to Home Assistant's shared aiohttp session. - Removes the `pyhifiberry` runtime dependency. - Changes the integration from local push to local polling. - Reads state and metadata from `/api/audiocontrol/now-playing`. - Reads active player capabilities from `/api/audiocontrol/players`. - Exposes controls dynamically based on … Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23.	PR #38 · 2026-06
HiFiBerry Digi+ on Raspberry Pi Zero W	Not working Local		Users report integration worked then stopped; no fix confirmed Saved copy Hello, I’m using Digi+ card on RPi 0W with HiFiBerryOS 20201213 installed. I wanted to install this integration via HACS. Everything went successfuly, but now I’m struggling with configuiring that. Should I paste HiFiBarry’s IP in the “host” section? What should I type in authtoken field? Regards, Jakub Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23.	Issue #22 · 2022-08

Gathered from GitHub issues, pull requests, discussions and docs, and from r/homeassistant. These are individual reports, so check the linked thread and the date before you buy.

How it connects

Local polling

Talks to the device on your network, asking it for updates every so often.

Found automatically over

Bonjour (zeroconf)

Details

Installs (analytics)	57 (0.01%)
GitHub stars	54
Latest version	0.1.11 (2026-10-12)
Set up in the UI	Yes
Maintainers	@willholdoway, @dgomes
License	CC0-1.0

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.

Sources

Documentation: https://github.com/willholdoway/hifiberry
Source code: https://github.com/willholdoway/hifiberry
Issues: https://github.com/willholdoway/hifiberry/issues
HACS: https://hacs.xyz