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Google Cast	Instructions on how to integrate Google Cast into Home Assistant.	google_cast.png	Media Player	true	pre 0.7	Local Polling	/components/media_player.cast/

Google Cast devices like Android TVs and Chromecasts will be automatically 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.

Advanced use

The Cast integration has some extra configuration options available for advanced users. You will still need to create a config entry to initialize the Cast integration.

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

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

You may need to enable Multicast DNS (MDNS) on your router if you are on a different subnet or VLAN.

{% 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. required: false type: list {% endconfiguration %}

If you want to manually configure multiple Cast media players, you can define those as follows:

# Example configuration.yaml entry for multiple devices
cast:
  media_player:
    - host: IP_ADDRESS_DEVICE_1
    - host: IP_ADDRESS_DEVICE_2