diff --git a/source/_components/cast.markdown b/source/_components/cast.markdown index 59ac474f86e..a7f8c7b0f89 100644 --- a/source/_components/cast.markdown +++ b/source/_components/cast.markdown @@ -15,6 +15,17 @@ discovered if you enable [the discovery integration](/components/discovery/). If 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 diff --git a/source/_posts/2019-08-06-home-assistant-cast.markdown b/source/_posts/2019-08-06-home-assistant-cast.markdown index 64c38bb15b6..e73a70353a3 100644 --- a/source/_posts/2019-08-06-home-assistant-cast.markdown +++ b/source/_posts/2019-08-06-home-assistant-cast.markdown @@ -59,5 +59,5 @@ entities: 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)).