---
title: Google Cast
description: Instructions on how to integrate Google Cast into Home Assistant.
ha_category:
  - Media Player
featured: true
ha_release: pre 0.7
ha_iot_class: Local Polling
ha_config_flow: true
ha_domain: cast
---

You can enable the Cast integration by going to the Integrations page inside the configuration panel.

## 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).

```json
{
  "entity_id": "media_player.office_display_4",
  "view_path": "lights"
}
```

Note that Home Assistant Cast requires your Home Assistant installation to be accessible via `https://`. If you're using Home Assistant Cloud, you don't need to do anything. Otherwise you must make sure that you have configured the `base_url` for [the `http` integration](/integrations/http/).

## Advanced use

Cast devices can only be discovered if they are on the same subnet as Home Assistant. If this is not the case, you need to configure the IP address of the Cast device directly:

```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
cast:
  media_player:
    - host: 192.168.1.10
```

{% configuration %}
media_player:
  description: A list that contains all Cast devices.
  required: true
  type: list
  keys:
    host:
      description: Use only if you don't want to scan for devices.
      required: false
      type: string
    ignore_cec:
      description: >
        A list of Chromecasts that should ignore CEC data for determining the
        active input. [See the upstream documentation for more information.](https://github.com/balloob/pychromecast#ignoring-cec-data)
      required: false
      type: list
{% endconfiguration %}