#Cast to home assistant

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worldly sorrel
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Hi folks, is it possible to setup Home Assistant as a "target" for casting? For example, I have a HA Voice Preview with a speaker connected to it, and I'd like to be able to pull up a youtube video on my laptop and play it on that speaker. I was hoping I could click the 'cast' button on the youtube player and cast it to the speaker, like I can cast it to a roku. Another one is from apple devices—you can often send media to a compatible device. Can that be my HA Voice Preview/speaker?

From the docs, all I've found so far is being able to cast the dashboard to a chromecast device, or be able to play specific media to a chromecast device. In my case, I'd like the Home Assistant media player (the voice preview with its speaker) to be the target of the casting.

median condor
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I think Google requires devices to be certified to act as cast targets. There are open source solutions, but they only work with open source clients that don't implement device authentication.