BeoPlay: Bang & Olufsen Speakers and TVs in Home Assistant
This component enables integration of B&O Audio/Video equipment with Home Assistant and specifically TVs, Speakers and units like the BeoLink Converter ML/NL.
Installation
Installation for the moment is through custom_components. Just copy the full contents of the custom_components/beoplay folder into the config/custom_components/beoplay folder in your Home Assistant system (You'll need to create the beoplay folder. If you are installing over a previous version, delete all the contents and start fresh). Then, restart Home Assistant.
Configuration is very simple, go to Configuration -> Integrations -> Add Integration (bottom right corner), search for BeoPlay and insert the host name or IP.
It should work with both TVs, Speakers and other devices like NL/ML converters.
The component also works with Zeroconf, so Home Assistant should automaticlly show up in your discovery panel (Configuration->Integrations)
Currently this is heavily under development so YMMV
It should show up as something like this:
Services
The integration is a Media Player so responds to all Media Player commands.
It also exposes 2 additional services:
beoplay_join_experience:
description: "Join Experience."
fields:
entity_id:
description: "A media player Entity ID."
example: "media_player.my_chromecast"
beoplay_leave_experience:
description: "Leave Experience."
fields:
entity_id:
description: "A media player Entity ID."
example: "media_player.my_chromecast"
You can use them to have the speaker join and leave an existing play experience, just like pressing the 'Join' button on the remote. A source must be playing already for Join to work.
These are called through service calls, e.g.:
Events
Beoplay also generates events (beoplay_notification) where you can track status changes of the speaker. You can use this to enable all kinds of cool experiences (e.g., catch buttons like A.MEM to control automations on the Home Assistant like starting a streaming player)
