luundblad 6 Posted March 28, 2021 Posted March 28, 2021 (edited) Hi !, I am using this integration for emby in homeassistant atm. https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/emby/ The bad thing is that it adds every media player / web browser / chromecast, that has been used to play media from emby as a new media player entity. So now I have 60 media players in home assistant. although I only have 5 users on my server. Can I somehow add a media player myself or disable auto add of new players? Or remove the integration completely and use the API instead of just getting the media player I want? Then I just need to watch my shield tv, if yes, HOW? Must be alot of Home Assistant users here Edited March 28, 2021 by luundblad
Luke 40128 Posted March 28, 2021 Posted March 28, 2021 Hi, I don't think you can as it's pulling devices from the server. You could remove dead devices from there.
luundblad 6 Posted March 28, 2021 Author Posted March 28, 2021 (edited) 18 minutes ago, Luke said: Hi, I don't think you can as it's pulling devices from the server. You could remove dead devices from there. Ok i see But plex has so much options in home assistant. Why is that? Do you have to make more options or is it HA team that has to do it?. Noob question Edited March 28, 2021 by luundblad
Luke 40128 Posted March 28, 2021 Posted March 28, 2021 14 minutes ago, luundblad said: Ok i see But plex has so much options in home assistant. Why is that? Do you have to make more options or is it HA team that has to do it?. Noob question The developer of that home assistant add-on would need to add more options.
luundblad 6 Posted March 28, 2021 Author Posted March 28, 2021 Just now, Luke said: The developer of that home assistant add-on would need to add more options. Ok, Thanks for quick answer
1tonsilla 0 Posted November 30, 2021 Posted November 30, 2021 Could you tell me how to install emby in home-assistant?Thanks!https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/emby/ I have searched from HACS,it shows the add on is :Emby Latest Media. I think they are not the same one.
Luke 40128 Posted December 1, 2021 Posted December 1, 2021 12 hours ago, 1tonsilla said: Could you tell me how to install emby in home-assistant?Thanks!https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/emby/ I have searched from HACS,it shows the add on is :Emby Latest Media. I think they are not the same one. Hi, yes this is the one you want: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/emby/ So I think showing latest media is probably part of what it does?
1tonsilla 0 Posted December 2, 2021 Posted December 2, 2021 21 hours ago, Luke said: Hi, yes this is the one you want: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/emby/ So I think showing latest media is probably part of what it does? I was confused before and I thought Emby( https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/emby/) needed to be installed manually. Now I know that as long as the ‘configuration.yaml’ is configured, the emby entity can be found in the Developer Tools. Thank you so much!
bluemonkey07 590 Posted Thursday at 07:34 AM Posted Thursday at 07:34 AM (edited) Are there any plans for the emby team to maintain a home assistant integration? The current integration is very lacking compared to the plex and jellyfin integrations and the custom HACS addon https://github.com/rumbu13/ha-mediabrowser which is no longer developed has stopped working as of the 07.2025 home assistant update. Seriously considering moving to plex or jellyfin due to this Edited Thursday at 07:36 AM by Vidman
ricostuart 3 Posted Friday at 03:21 PM Posted Friday at 03:21 PM On 10/07/2025 at 08:34, bluemonkey07 said: Are there any plans for the emby team to maintain a home assistant integration? The current integration is very lacking compared to the plex and jellyfin integrations and the custom HACS addon https://github.com/rumbu13/ha-mediabrowser which is no longer developed has stopped working as of the 07.2025 home assistant update. Seriously considering moving to plex or jellyfin due to this If you remove the integration and change it over to use this fork of it (https://github.com/revin34/ha-emby) and readd the integration, it works again. From the issues on github there is a python script error that stopped it working. The fork'd version has got it working again on the latest version of HA. 1
bluemonkey07 590 Posted Friday at 11:18 PM Posted Friday at 11:18 PM Yes I figured that out already, but its not intuitive so my point still stands
Luke 40128 Posted Saturday at 01:28 AM Posted Saturday at 01:28 AM 2 hours ago, bluemonkey07 said: Yes I figured that out already, but its not intuitive so my point still stands Now that you've figured it out, what shortcomings does it have?
bluemonkey07 590 Posted Saturday at 02:28 AM Posted Saturday at 02:28 AM (edited) the HACS implementation not maintained and difficult to find the forked solution. The "official" home assistant integration has limited feature set and requires knowledge of YAML to integrate. Edited Saturday at 02:31 AM by bluemonkey07 more info
Luke 40128 Posted Saturday at 02:49 AM Posted Saturday at 02:49 AM 20 minutes ago, bluemonkey07 said: the HACS implementation not maintained and difficult to find the forked solution. The "official" home assistant integration has limited feature set and requires knowledge of YAML to integrate. Right but now that you found the forked solution, what issue is outstanding?
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