Now possible to use Bose Hybrid + Home Assistant for automations (e.g., motion → music) in v4.2

[Andreas221988]

If it’s now possible to trigger automations through Home Assistant when using the Bose Hybrid integration. Since Hybrid is running inside Home Assistant, I’m hoping that HA can expose enough entities or services to let me automate things like “when motion is detected, start playing music on a Bose speaker”.

Right now I’m not entirely sure which parts of Hybrid are available as HA entities or events, and whether media actions can be triggered directly through HA’s automation engine. If anyone has already tested this or knows what is currently supported, I’d really appreciate some insight.

If it is possible, I’d love to hear how you set it up — especially simple use cases like motion → play music or time‑based triggers.

[TJGigs]

FYI. There is scheduled play features. You can find it on tools page that was added a while back.

[Andreas221988]

@TJGigs Where exactly can I find the option you mentioned?
In my Bose Hybrid UI I only see “Scheduled Play / Off”, but there’s no way to define a motion sensor or any other Home Assistant trigger there. Could you send me a screenshot of where this setting is supposed to appear?

[TJGigs]

I was just talking about scheduled play/off. I don't use HA so don't know how the motion sensors work or how they talk to HA or HA installed apps.

[Andreas221988]

@TJGigs Ah okay, the scheduled play/off option I already found myself — that part is clear.
What I’m trying to do is activate my Bose speaker via a motion sensor when I enter the basement. Since I’m using Bose Hybrid inside Home Assistant, I was hoping that this would be possible through HA automations. 🙂

[CozadJeff]

TJ,Is there something that will start playing a preset that was playing when the app is restarted?Jeff CSent from my iPhoneOn Jul 21, 2026, at 9:35 AM, TJGigs ***@***.***> wrote: FYI. There is scheduled play features. You can find it on tools page that was added a while back. —Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[TJGigs]

yes. There is auto-resume preset. IT will play what was playing on the speaker (if it was a preset) once you turn the speaker back on.

[CozadJeff]

Yeah... I could use that. I put a crontab in to reboot my RP once a week. I was hoping that there was a setting that would restart a playing preset. I suppose I can add scheduled play for shortly after the reboot.

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[TJGigs]

[CozadJeff]

Cool… I’ll give it a whirl. Thanks!Jeff CSent from my iPhoneOn Jul 21, 2026, at 12:36 PM, Jeff Cozad ***@***.***> wrote:Yeah... I could use that. I put a crontab in to reboot my RP once a week. I was hoping that there was a setting that would restart a playing preset. I suppose I can add scheduled play for shortly after the reboot.On Tue, Jul 21, 2026 at 12:01 PM TJGigs ***@***.***> wrote: yes. There is auto-resume preset. IT will play what was playing on the speaker (if it was a preset) once you turn the speaker back on. —Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[Andreas221988]

@TJGigs Could you tell me the exact webhook or URL endpoint that Bose Hybrid exposes for triggering a preset or playback externally?
If I have the correct address, I can fire it from Home Assistant using a motion sensor.

[timdu74]

If that isn't possible with Hybrid, just so you know, I use this Home Assistant module (alongside Bose Hybrid): https://github.com/thlucas1/homeassistantcomponent_soundtouchplus
You can create cards to control the SoundTouch speakers and trigger actions using the preset buttons on the cards, or via a scene...

[TJGigs]

I'm gone for a week, but I'll look at this when I get back. It should be possible, I need to check if I have to tweak any code at all to expose or more likely make sure all the underlying cascading logic is all triggered

[Andreas221988]

@timdu74 Thanks a lot for the tip!
I don’t have all the functions you do, but at least I can turn the speakers on and off – and that’s enough for me.
With the brilliant Bose Hybrid, the last playback starts automatically anyway.

Just one question: how did you get the other functions?

[timdu74]

@Andreas221988 If you are talking about the card in HA with the presets, you need the module
https://github.com/kalkih/mini-media-player

[TJGigs]

I'll look at all of this when I get back next week. And see what I can get setup and working and determine if I need to make any code changes.

[Andreas221988]

@TJGigs Thanks a lot — enjoy your time and have a great week! 😊

[TJGigs]

see v4.2 for the feature... and readme or tech document. You define ondemand action on the tools page and update HA config YAML in HA dev tools and then call the webhook

[Andreas221988]

Thanks a lot, I’ll test it 🙂

[Andreas221988]

@TJGigs I’ve updated to the latest version, but I can’t find that option… where exactly can I locate it?

[TJGigs]

Once you update the HA configuration.yaml you have to restart HA so you can then search on the HA actions in the developers tools. go to settings... In BSTH you set up an OnDemand entry in the shedule plays