Shairport Sync Media Player
parautenbach/hass-shairport-sync · vv1.4.0
A custom media player for Home Assistant that allows you to control and get updates from a Shairport Sync installation using MQTT.
In Apple Home through HomeKit Bridge
What HomeKit Bridge makes of each kind of entity this integration creates, read from its source code. A device only gets the ones that apply to it.
| Entity | Shows up as | Note |
|---|---|---|
media_player | TV, receiver or media switches | Needs its own HomeKit Bridge in accessory mode |
What people report
Shairport Sync players work locally over MQTT with relative volume only; absolute volume setting is not feasible.
- Partly works1
| Device | In Home Assistant | In Apple Home | What they said | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shairport Sync AirPlay receiver | Partly works Local | Shows volume level but cannot set absolute volume; relative control onlySaved copy… level, but it turned out that this is no longer supported in newer versions of iOS, so I left only the functions responsible for displaying the current Airplay volume, which may make the code look a little messy. Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23. | PR #28 · 2025-07 |
Gathered from GitHub issues, pull requests, discussions and docs, and from r/homeassistant. These are individual reports, so check the linked thread and the date before you buy.
How it connects
Local push
Talks to the device on your network, and the device tells Home Assistant the moment something changes.
Details
| Installs (analytics) | 185 (0.03%) |
|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 122 |
| Latest version | v1.4.0 (2026-10-19) |
| Set up in the UI | Yes |
| Maintainers | @parautenbach |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
In ReReHome
Whatever HomeKit Bridge shares reaches Apple Home as normal HomeKit accessories behind your Home Assistant bridge, so ReReHome shows and controls them like any other.
Bridges get their own settings page listing the accessories behind them.
