Discovery

Home Assistant can discover and automatically configure zeroconf/mDNS and uPnP devices on your network. Currently the discovery component can detect:

• Google Chromecast
• Belkin WeMo switches
• Philips Hue
• Netgear routers
• Plex Media Server

It will be able to add Google Chreomcasts and Belkin WeMo switches automatically, for Philips Hue it will require some configuration from the user.

To load this component, add the following lines to your configuration.yaml:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
discovery:

The home-assistant server must be on the same network as the devices for uPnP discovery to work. If running home-assistant in a docker container use switch --net=host to put it on the host’s network.

If you are developing a new platform, please read how to make your platform discoverable.

There is currently a known issue with running this platform on a 64-bit version of Python.

If you are on Windows and you’re using Python 3.5, download the Netifaces dependency here.