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ha-youtube-on-tv

See and control the YouTube app on your TV from Home Assistant: what's playing, mute ads, auto-skip them, manage the queue.

  • Completely free
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

ha-youtube-on-tv is a video platform client program. Other documented uses: home automation.

Services and protocols mentioned: Home Assistant.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “See and control the YouTube app on your TV from Home Assistant: what's playing, mute ads, auto-skip them, manage the queue.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “See and control the YouTube app on your TV from Home Assistant: what's playing, mute ads, auto-skip them, manage the queue.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “It connects to the TV the same way the YouTube phone app does when you cast (YouTube's "Lounge" protocol, via pyytlounge).” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of ha-youtube-on-tv is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Dépôt GitHub jorgediez/ha-youtube-on-tv (GPL-3.0-only)

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