Home Assistant integration of the KEF LS 50 Wireless

Supported: KEF LS50 Wireless (Requires up to date firmware)

Untested: KEF LSX

Credit

This project is based on code from Gronis (https://github.com/Gronis/pykef) and investigations of chimpy (wireshark god).

Features supported

• Get and set volume
• Mute and unmute
• Get and set source input
• Turn off speaker
• Turn on speaker (via HA service call)

Discussion

See home assistant thread

Use in Home Assistant

1. Create folder in your home assistant main folder:

mkdir custom_components/media_player

2. Copy pykef.py and kefwireless.py into that folder. This will make the custom component kefwireless available to Home Assistant:

cp pykef.py custom_components/media_player
cp kefwireless.py custom_components/media_player

3. Add component to Home Assistant by adding to configuration.yaml and restart HA:

media_player:
   - platform: kefwireless
     host: 192.168.x.x # change to the IP of you speaker, no autodetection yet
     name: MyLS50W # optional, the name you want to see in Home Assistant
     turn_on_service: switch.turn_on # optional, place a HA service to call in here: domain.service 
     turn_on_service_data: '{"entity_id": "switch.some_switch"}' # optional, place the service data in here. Must be in quotation marks ('). Must be one line   

##Limitations

• LS50 speakers take about 20 seconds to boot. Thus, after turning them on please be patient. Turning them on via HA is not possible.

License

MIT License

Authors

• Robin Grönberg
• Bastian Beggel
• chimpy (wireshark god)