I’m guessing it’s the chrome cast, but I’m not sure.
It would be awesome if it could actually show something useful!
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Hmm I have the nvidia shield and home assistant… my cast component on the shield is automatically detected but I don’t have this message.
This makes me curious to know if I could use cast as a remote screen for home assistant when not otherwise used.
For example for morning overview with news, weather, personal calendar, etc.
I just saw this for the first time today and still cant figure it out. Also have a shield and HA running on a PI. Were you ever able to figure out where it was coming from @rossdargan ?
Bump. I’m new to HA and am having the same problem.
I see the same splash screen when my Nvidia Shield is turned on. I dont have any HA apps on the shield. I am not sure what this is for. I dont see any new integrations detected on the HA side.
Is there a specific use for this? Can it be configured?
An old post, but this one stumped me … until now!
This screen comes from the Google Cast integration in Home Assistant. Google Cast - Home Assistant
My Sony Bravia TV has Google TV integrated. I already used the Google Cast integration, and it detected my TV. Great, I’ll add that to my “Lounge Room” dashboard so I can turn my TV on or off.
Now when I “turn on” my TV, I get the “Welcome To Home Assistant” screen. But I can’t turn it off!
What this integration actually does is allow you to cast HA screens to your device (e.g. your TV). When you “turn on” the integration, it powers on the TV ready to cast some screen or media to it. In this case, just the welcome screen.
That wasn’t what I wanted though.
My fix? Add the Sony Bravia integration, and use THAT integration to turn my TV on/off.
I have the same problem. How is this even happening? Has anyone found a solution?
Edit: I figured it out. Home assistant sees the shield as a Chromecast device so it turns it on and starts Chromecast on Shield, rather than just turning it on. This is how it treats other devices like Google mini or Google nest displays. It seems the only thing you can do is not turn on shield with home assistant, but by some other means. I use the Google SDK to send a voice command to turn on Shield because that way it doesn’t start Chromecast on Shield. You get the home screen you want. You can verify this by double tapping the circle and you can see that Chromecast is activated which is why you are still seeing welcome to home assistant when you start shield with home assistant media player commands.
I just wrote a script the doubles up the media player turn on command and you never see the HA blue screen.