TVs · Google
Chromecast and Chromecast with Google TV
Casting itself works out of the box, locally. Google never published the wire protocol for outside developers, but the community mapped it years ago.
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What it can become
What owners already do with it, easiest first.
Easy~5 minNo risk
Cast and control volume, no setup
Once it is on your Wi-Fi, any app with a cast button finds it over the local network. No extra account needed to use it day to day.
Built inGoogle Cast help
An evening~20 minNo risk
Group it into Home Assistant automations
Home Assistant's Cast integration uses the same local protocol, so it can turn on a display or start a doorbell feed as part of a scene.
An evening~30 minNo risk
Cast and control it from your own script
Find it on the network by mDNS and send it a video URL, a pause command or a volume change, all over the local Cast protocol.
Everything built for it
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