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title: VLC media player via Telnet
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description: Instructions on how to integrate VLC media player into Home Assistant using the telnet interface.
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ha_category:
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- Media player
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ha_release: 0.95
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ha_iot_class: Local Polling
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ha_codeowners:
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- '@rodripf'
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- '@MartinHjelmare'
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ha_config_flow: true
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ha_domain: vlc_telnet
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ha_platforms:
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- media_player
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ha_integration_type: integration
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---
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The **VLC media player via Telnet** {% term integration %} allows you to control a [VLC media player](https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html) using the built in telnet interface.
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This action will control any instance of VLC player on the network with the telnet interface activated.
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To activate the telnet interface on your VLC Player please read the [official VLC documentation](https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Modules/telnet/). Also remember to add a firewall rule allowing inbound connections for the port used in the device running VLC.
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In case the VLC is running on a host with a locale other than English, you may get some errors during the volume change.
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This is related to the different use of the decimal separator in other countries.
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Consider to set the locale to `en_US` before starting VLC.
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{% include integrations/config_flow.md %}
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## Actions
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When using the `media_player.play_media` action, only the "music" media type is supported for now.
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## Home Assistant add-on
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You can run a VLC Media Player on your Home Assistant installation using the official [VLC add-on](https://github.com/home-assistant/addons/blob/master/vlc/DOCS.md).
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Using it you can play files on the local network, Internet or files and playlist locally saved to the `/share` and `/media` folder of your Home Assistant installation.
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