Add Home Assistant Cast service docs (#10339)

* Add Home Assistant Cast service docs

* Add link in hass cast announcement

* Update source/_components/cast.markdown

* 🚑 Fixes indents
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Paulus Schoutsen 2019-09-18 13:13:26 -07:00 committed by Franck Nijhof
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you don't have the discovery integration enabled, you can enable the Cast
integration by going to the Integrations page inside the config panel.
## Home Assistant Cast
The Cast integration allows you to start Home Assistant Cast on any Chromecast device, using the `cast.show_lovelace_view` service. The service takes the path of a Lovelace view and an entity ID of a Cast device to show the view on.
```json
{
"entity_id": "media_player.office_display_4",
"view_path": "lights"
}
```
## Advanced use
The Cast integration has some extra configuration options available for advanced

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This is the first release of Home Assistant Cast, and so we focused on the minimum that was worthy of a release. We still have some more things planned:
- Allow starting Home Assistant Cast from Home Assistant itself (not a browser), as part of an automation or script.
- Allow starting Home Assistant Cast from Home Assistant itself (not a browser), as part of an automation or script. [This is live now since Home Assistant 0.99.](/components/cast/#home-assistant-cast)
- Use Home Assistant Cast as a text-to-speech target (inspired by [lovelace-browser-commander by @thomasloven](https://github.com/thomasloven/lovelace-browser-commander)).