Yoto
yoto
The Yoto integration lets you control your Yoto audio players from Home Assistant. You can play and pause cards, change the volume, skip tracks, seek within a track, see what is currently playing, and browse your card library to start a specific card, chapter, or track. You can also monitor each player's battery level, what content source it is playing from, and its current day or night mode.
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 |
|---|---|---|
switch | Switch or outlet | |
media_player | Media player (as switches) | Only TVs and receivers get a TV tile; other players show as power and play switches; Needs its own HomeKit Bridge in accessory mode |
binary_sensor | Sensor (motion, contact, leak, smoke…) | |
select | Mode picker (as switches) |
What people report
Yoto players work through the Yoto cloud but cannot be powered on or off from Home Assistant.
- Works5
| Device | In Home Assistant | In Apple Home | What they said | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yoto Mini | Works Cloud | Media player; cannot power on or offSaved copySupported devices: Yoto Player (2nd gen); Yoto Player (3rd gen); Yoto Player (4th gen); Yoto Mini; Yoto Mini (4th gen). Limitations: Yoto players cannot be powered on or off from Home Assistant. Excerpt saved from home-assistant.io on 2026-10-23. | Docs | |
| Yoto Mini (4th gen) | Works Cloud | Media player; cannot power on or offSaved copySupported devices: Yoto Player (2nd gen); Yoto Player (3rd gen); Yoto Player (4th gen); Yoto Mini; Yoto Mini (4th gen). Limitations: Yoto players cannot be powered on or off from Home Assistant. Excerpt saved from home-assistant.io on 2026-10-23. | Docs | |
| Yoto Player (2nd gen) | Works Cloud | Media player; cannot power on or offSaved copySupported devices: Yoto Player (2nd gen); Yoto Player (3rd gen); Yoto Player (4th gen); Yoto Mini; Yoto Mini (4th gen). Limitations: Yoto players cannot be powered on or off from Home Assistant. Excerpt saved from home-assistant.io on 2026-10-23. | Docs | |
| Yoto Player (3rd gen) | Works Cloud | Media player; cannot power on or offSaved copySupported devices: Yoto Player (2nd gen); Yoto Player (3rd gen); Yoto Player (4th gen); Yoto Mini; Yoto Mini (4th gen). Limitations: Yoto players cannot be powered on or off from Home Assistant. Excerpt saved from home-assistant.io on 2026-10-23. | Docs | |
| Yoto Player (4th gen) | Works Cloud | Media player; cannot power on or offSaved copySupported devices: Yoto Player (2nd gen); Yoto Player (3rd gen); Yoto Player (4th gen); Yoto Mini; Yoto Mini (4th gen). Limitations: Yoto players cannot be powered on or off from Home Assistant. Excerpt saved from home-assistant.io on 2026-10-23. | Docs |
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
Cloud push
Goes through the maker’s cloud, which sends updates as they happen. Needs the internet and an account.
Found automatically over
- DHCP
Details
| Installs (analytics) | 1,165 (0.16%) |
|---|---|
| Quality scale | Platinum |
| Added in | Home Assistant 2026.6 |
| Set up in the UI | Yes |
| Maintainers | @cdnninja, @piitaya |
Devices listed in its documentation
- Yoto Player (2nd gen)
- Yoto Player (3rd gen)
- Yoto Player (4th gen)
- Yoto Mini
- Yoto Mini (4th gen)
Limitations from the docs
- Yoto players cannot be powered on or off from Home Assistant.
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.
