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</p>
</div>
<div class="section-header">How does Home Assistant Cast work?</div>
<div class="section-header" id="https">
Why does Home Assistant Cast require me to authorize my Home Assistant
instance?
</div>
<div class="card-content">
<p>
You're currently looking at the Home Assistant Cast launcher
application. This is a standalone application to launch Home Assistant
Cast on your Chromecast. Because Chromecasts do not allow us to log in
to Home Assistant, we need to supply authentication to it from the
launcher. This authentication is obtained when you authorize your
instance. Your authentication credentials will remain in your browser
and on your Cast device.
</p>
<p>
Your authentication credentials or Home Assistant url are never sent
to the Cloud. You can validate this behavior in
<a
href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant-polymer/tree/dev/cast"
target="_blank"
>the source code</a
>.
</p>
<p>
The launcher application exists to make it possible to use Home
Assistant Cast with older versions of Home Assistant.
</p>
<p>
Starting with Home Assistant 0.97, Home Assistant Cast is also built
into the Lovelace UI as a special entities card row. Since the
Lovelace UI already has authentication, you will be able to start
casting right away.
</p>
</div>
<div class="section-header">Wat does Home Assistant Cast do?</div>
<div class="card-content">
<p>
Home Assistant Cast is a receiver application for the Chromecast. When