Looking for help with lovelace cast on Nest Hub

[silvrr]

Unless its been fixed, the standard cast component times out after 10 minutes. This is an issue on Googles end, not an HA issue.

An option is to use CATT

Google Cast drops home assistant cast connection

Its dead simple. I have next to 0 programming experience and got it working just fine. 1. Install/switch to the community SSH addon (https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-ssh) 2. Add the following to the bottom of the add-on configuration init_commands: - python3 -m pip install catt 3. add an automation to cast using CATT every ten minutes. The first and 3rd actions are options but avoid hearing the cast sound every ten minutes. Instead you hear the volume change which is a more sub…

Edit: be sure to set the ‘share_sessions’ parameter to ‘false’ in the ssh addon.