Media_player: cast 'vs' cast: media_player

Configuration
1

Hi

What’s the difference between

media_player:
  - platform: cast
    # Home mini
    host: 192.168.1.78
  - platform: cast
    # Home hub
    host: 192.168.1.80

(and)

cast:
  media_player:
    # Home mini
    - host: 192.168.1.78
    # Home hub
    - host: 192.168.1.80

This is for adding a home hub and a home mini. I prefer not to use auto_discovery and If possible I would like to add name: xxx to the configuration file.

Thanks
Kiwi

2

The short answer is that the second method is the right one. The first was used some time back in the 0.7x or early 0.8x releases.

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3

Thank you @Tinkerer . You’re forever dishing out help to us noobs.