Heyhey,
can you please share the corresponding config?
Thanks and regards
Jakob
Good day all
Thanks for sharing the awesome Blueprint. I can finally put my Nest Hub to good use. However my Nest Hub goes into picture mode after about 30 minutes. When i check the automation i can see is getting triggered every 9 minutesā¦ Does anyone know what i can do to resolve this.
Thanks in advance
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Hello. I need some help please. If my device is in the photo gallery view, and I click run on the blueprint, it says executed a few seconds ago but does not actually display the dashboard. I am able to display the dashboard using a script. I am using nabu casa so I am using the dashboard name on one field, and the view path below it. Am I supposed to change the dashboard path to my nabu casa url instead and use my dashboard name for the view path? Or what am I doing wrong?
I have two problems when using this blueprint
- It switches my TV on at ārandomā times (often in the middle of the night)
- When an app on my TV is on (e.g, Plex), this automation takes over (especially when i click pause, but also when i am browsing and did not start a media yet)
For some reason that I cannot graps, my Google Hub 2 returns to the screensaver at some point in time.
I do not know why and I cannot find a reliable pattern to reproduce it. Sometimes it happens almost immediately, sometimes it takes hours.
I tried setting this up yesterday to cast to an Android / Google TV. I get a message on the TV that the view cannot be found. I tried so many variations of view/path that I was going crazy.
Can someone please point me in the right direction? It would be great if the instructions were clearerā¦
I want to cast this dashboard / view:
xxxxxxui.nabu.casa/lovelace-dave/dave-cast
locally this is http://192.168.0.14:8123/lovelace-dave/dave-cast
So what do I put in here?
alias: Cast Security Dashboard to Bedroom TV
description: ""
use_blueprint:
path: kind3r/cast-and-re-cast-a-lovelace-view-to-a-google-hub.yaml
input:
player: media_player.bedroom_tv
view: lovelace-dave/dave-cast
The above wasnāt working, I get the HA logo screen on the TV with a message saying it canāt find the view.
The view setting maybe should just be ādave-castāā¦ read below and let me know what you think -
What is the content of ācast-and-re-cast-a-lovelace-view-to-a-google-hub.yamlā ?
Also, this may not be relevant (as I am not using a blueprint), but I cast a certain view to my google nest hub on my desk when it becomes available via an automation. This is because it is attached to a smart plug which has no power when I am not in the office, hence when the lights go on and the google nest hub is powered and becomes available, the view is casted.
I had alot of trouble figuring out the path as it was not very obvious and I struggled with it too. First I went to the browser URL for the view I was using (###.###.###.### is the IP of my HA instance):
http://###.###.###.###:8123/dashboard-motion/0
With the above in mind, this action does the casting:
And here is the .YAML:
data:
entity_id: media_player.basement_google_nest_hub_max
dashboard_path: dashboard-motion
view_path: "0"
enabled: true
action: cast.show_lovelace_view
Note, if the device to be casted to is not on the same vlan (or subnet) as HA (for example if HA is on 192.168.0.X and the device to be casted to is not on 192.168.0.x but instead, 192.168.10.x) - casting will only work if mDNS reflection is turned on, utilizing the bonjour service id ā_googlecast._tcp.localā.
If they are on the same vlan then disregard the āNote:ā aboveā¦
Hope that helps -
Is it possible to make the automation run at 7 in the morning and stop casting at 11 in the evening?
You could end and trigger the automation at your desired times, Iām doing something similar to switch between bright and dark mode:
alias: Cast Dashboard restart
description: ""
mode: single
triggers:
- event: sunrise
offset: "300"
trigger: sun
- event: sunset
offset: "300"
trigger: sun
conditions: []
actions:
- metadata: {}
data: {}
target:
device_id: 103eafd2323696288a4ffb83b932ce86
action: media_player.turn_off
- delay:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 30
milliseconds: 0
- metadata: {}
data:
skip_condition: true
target:
entity_id: automation.cast_to_google_hub
action: automation.trigger
Iām having an issue with the dark mode on my Nest Hub:
The dark mode gets somehow butchered when I cast my dashboard, is this rather an issue of HASS or of the blueprint?
Home Assistant is running at the latest release 2025.1.3. I tried already to re-setup the blueprint, but with no improvement
For me the dark/bright mode is working now.
I do have an issue where the cast stops randomly every couple of minutes tho.
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I have the same but it comes back as I have a lame workaround of an automation that when the device becomes available, then I stop casting and recast to it. Iād love to figure out how to troubleshoot my issue as well.
Do you mind sharing the work around? Itās weird, one day both my hubs are casting just fine and one day one keeps disconnecting and connecting. Thereās no consistency.
Iāve tried the creators other way of casting but I donāt really like having to use kiosk mode and just like this better.
Sorry I took so long to get back to you -
Sure - the below code is pretty self explanatory, used when HA starts up but you get the ideaā¦ When HA restarts, if the device I am casting to (Google Nest Hub Max) is not unavailable, unknown or playing, then stop whatever might be casting, waitg one second, then cast. The parallel mode is not really needed here, that is kind of sillyā¦ Anyway, look at the URL for the dashboard you wish to cast, for example the dashboard I am casting below has this url:
http://:8123/dashboard-motion/0
Note the ādashboard_pathā below and copmpare it to the above url -
alias: On Startup/Reboot - Re-Cast to Google Nest Hub Max
description: Stops Casting and Then Re-Casts to Google Nest Hub Max
triggers:
- event: start
trigger: homeassistant
conditions:
- condition: not
conditions:
- condition: state
entity_id: media_player.basement_google_nest_hub_max
state: unavailable
- condition: state
entity_id: media_player.basement_google_nest_hub_max
state: unknown
- condition: state
entity_id: media_player.basement_google_nest_hub_max
state: playing
actions:
- data: {}
target:
entity_id: media_player.basement_google_nest_hub_max
action: media_player.turn_off
- delay:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 1
milliseconds: 0
- data:
entity_id: media_player.basement_google_nest_hub_max
dashboard_path: dashboard-motion
view_path: "0"
action: cast.show_lovelace_view
mode: parallel
max: 100
Hope that helps
Oh so itās when HA restarts? I thought it was when the Hub became since that can be chosen as a trigger. Havenāt tried but I guess that when it shows the screensaver it stops and casts?
Sorry I actually have that as well, in an autromation which calls a script:
alias: Basement Google Nest Hub Max changes FROM being unavailable -> Cast Lovelace
description: ""
triggers:
- entity_id:
- media_player.basement_google_nest_hub_max
from: unavailable
trigger: state
to: idle
conditions:
- condition: state
entity_id: light.basement_stairs_shelly_1
state: "on"
- condition: not
conditions:
- condition: device
device_id: a703cb8684f75a1ab6dca0a6dbdfc1d3
domain: media_player
entity_id: d9e77394e19db7710c92e96675af947d
type: is_playing
- condition: device
device_id: a703cb8684f75a1ab6dca0a6dbdfc1d3
domain: media_player
entity_id: d9e77394e19db7710c92e96675af947d
type: is_paused
- condition: device
device_id: a703cb8684f75a1ab6dca0a6dbdfc1d3
domain: media_player
entity_id: d9e77394e19db7710c92e96675af947d
type: is_buffering
actions:
- delay:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 30
milliseconds: 0
- data: {}
action: script.cast_dashboard
mode: single
alias: Start Casting Dashboard
sequence:
- data: {}
target:
entity_id: media_player.basement_google_nest_hub_max
enabled: true
action: media_player.turn_off
- delay:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 1
milliseconds: 0
enabled: true
- data:
entity_id: media_player.basement_google_nest_hub_max
dashboard_path: dashboard-motion
view_path: "0"
enabled: true
action: cast.show_lovelace_view
mode: single
icon: mdi:tablet-dashboard
I probably have some old code in there that is useless, I changed is many times but that was a long time agoā¦ for instanve the 30 second delay before calling the script doesnāt make any sense but you get the idea!
Thanks? Is it working? Does it sense the state as idle and cast when the Hub goes to screensaver?
To be honest - most of the time. Every time I manually run it however it does work perfectly. I have the Google Nest Hub on a different VLAN than my RPI5 runing HAOS on a VM, but I have mDNS reflection turned on going both way across vlans which does work for every deviceā¦
Does this not work anymore? Im not able to press my Nest hub anymore to use the dashboard?
Did you ever find an answer to this?
Would like to have Music Assistant homepage on Nest Hub.