description of the dashboard path (#13370)

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## Home Assistant Cast
Home Assistant has its own Cast application to show the Home Assistant UI on any Chromecast device. You can use it by adding the [Cast entity row](/lovelace/entities/#cast) to your Lovelace UI, or by calling 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. A `path` has to be defined in your Lovelace YAML for each view, as outlined in the [views documentation](/lovelace/views/#path). The following is a full configuration for a script that starts casting the `downstairs` tab of the `lovelace-cast` path (note that `entity_id` is specified under `data` and not for the service call):
Home Assistant has its own Cast application to show the Home Assistant UI on any Chromecast device. You can use it by adding the [Cast entity row](/lovelace/entities/#cast) to your Lovelace UI, or by calling 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. A `path` has to be defined in your Lovelace YAML for each view, as outlined in the [views documentation](/lovelace/views/#path). The `dashboard_path` is the part of the Lovelace UI URL that follows the defined `base_url` Typically "lovelace". The following is a full configuration for a script that starts casting the `downstairs` tab of the `lovelace-cast` path (note that `entity_id` is specified under `data` and not for the service call):
```yaml
'cast_downstairs_on_kitchen':
alias: Show Downstairs on kitchen
sequence:
- data:
dashboard_path: lovelace-cast-
dashboard_path: lovelace
entity_id: media_player.kitchen
view_path: downstairs
service: cast.show_lovelace_view