Xbox consoles integrate with Home Assistant to provide power control and basic media state tracking. The integration communicates with Xbox consoles over your local network and through Xbox Live services, providing game/app detection and remote power management.
Home Assistant can detect when an Xbox is turned on, what game or app is running, and control power state. This enables gaming scene automations: dim lights and switch audio when a game starts, return to normal when the console goes to standby.
Getting Xbox connected to Home Assistant and running reliably.
Home Assistant discovers Xbox media devices on your network automatically. Add them to see playback controls, volume, source selection, and grouping options.
Group Xbox speakers with devices from other brands for synchronized whole-home audio. Control each room independently or as zones.
Build automations that play specific audio based on events — doorbell rings, morning alarms, or custom announcements. Route different media to different rooms.
The problems installers run into with Xbox and Home Assistant — and how a managed setup prevents them.
Xbox 'Instant-on' mode keeps the console in a network-accessible standby state, allowing Home Assistant control. 'Energy-saving' mode fully shuts down the network interface, making the console invisible.
Some integration features depend on Xbox Live cloud services. When Xbox Live has outages, game and app detection may stop working even though the console itself is fine.
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