KEF Wireless Speaker Control for LS50WII, LSX II and LS60

Note

A more complete component already exists for these speakers from the developer of pykefcontrol at https://github.com/N0ciple/hass-kef-connector. I hadn't seen it existed when this was created, but I suggest using that component instead of this one.

Description

A media player component for Home Assistant that controls a KEF Wireless Speaker.

Supports the following devices:

• LSX II
• LS50WII (untested)
• LS60 (untested)

Manual installation

1. Open the directory (folder) for your HA configuration (where you find configuration.yaml).
2. If you do not have a custom_components directory (folder) there, you need to create it.
3. In the custom_components directory (folder) create a new folder called kef_control.
4. Download all the files from the custom_components/kef_control/ directory (folder) in this repository.
5. Place the files you downloaded in the new directory (folder) you created.
6. Add the following to your configuration.yaml:

media_player:
  - platform: kef_control
    host: "192.168.1.100" # IP address of your KEF speaker

7. Restart Home Assistant

Credits

This component is based heavily on the work of @N0ciple and their pykefcontrol library.

Disclaimer

This component is not provided, supported or maintained by any of the companies named above. They can change their hardware, software or web services at a way that can break this component. Fingers crossed!

Devices other than the LSX II haven't been tested and may have issues, since I don't have any to test with.