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The Xbox integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] allows you to control Xbox One (or newer) consoles from Home Assistant.

Note that for the media player and remote entities to be added your Xbox will need to have remote features enabled via Settings -> Devices & connections -> Remote features (you may need to upgrade your controller firmware).

Because it uses the Home Assistant Cloud account linking service you must have either cloud: or default_config: in your configuration.yamlThe configuration.yaml file is the main configuration file for Home Assistant. It lists the integrations to be loaded and their specific configurations. In some cases, the configuration needs to be edited manually directly in the configuration.yaml file. Most integrations can be configured in the UI. [Learn more].

The Xbox media player platform will create media player entities for each console linked to your Microsoft account. These entities will display the active app and playback controls as well as a media browser implementation, allowing you to launch any installed application.

You can find Product IDs using the Developer Tools -> Events tab and listening to the call_service event. In a new browser tab, navigate to the media browser for your console and click on an App/Game to see the product ID in the event.

Below is a picture elements card that can be added to a dashboard to provide an Xbox controller interface in your frontend. It utilizes the services detailed above. Replace remote.xboxone_remote and media_player.xboxone with the names of your entities and enjoy! Courtesy of @SeanPM5 and @hunterjm.

The Xbox media source platform allows you to use the Media Browser panel to view both your own, and community, gameclips or screenshots for games that you have installed on any of your consoles. As with any other media source integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more], you are also able to send these clips to supported media players like Chromecast.