Some of my two favorite TH-camrs! Honestly when I see that either of you post videos I know I will have a good day because I get to watch a good smart home video 🙂
Liked and subscribed. Thanks for covering all the little side subjects like "you have to close the casting session before casting again" or "casting camera can have issues", because other youtubers don't. They are just like "hey you cast by calling a service, and it works". Nah.
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Thanks Mark. I did manage to cast to my old Chromecast. However I had a bit of struggle in the beginning with WebRTC Camera integration. So the long story short, I had to set "mode: webrtc", for it to work. Otherwise it was just a black screen, even though it was showing on the web fine.
@@MarkWattTech So far it's gone very well although for some reason I get different results when using a chromecast to a TV with built in functionality (I get different colour schemes - but I suspect that may be due to HA thinking the built in Chromecast is a different device but that isn't a problem
Thanks for this AWESOME tutorial Mark! I'm loving having custom visual notifications pop up on my displays for important events. If anyone else is interested in displaying custom created media like the bin notification that Mark had here, if you're creating your own content for the google nest mini the image/moive/gif dimensions you'll need are 1024 x 600 to fit the screen perfectly. For the Nest Hub Max the dimensions you'll need to conform your content to are 1280 x 800. Happy Automating :)
I have an automation that on doorbell press casts the live camera feed to my google display, then does text to speech on all google speakers announcing someone is at the door. I use unifi protect camera setup and the camera feed is 100% reliable, i know people with other camera manufactures that get spotty performance at best.
Just to add an update to this (love the article bit I've found some gotchas in my environment). I have used what I think is a gen 1 chromcast and it seems to lack the processing power to handle views thar update (such as history graphs etc). I'm experimenting with changing the refresh rates to reduce the load on the chromecast. At the moment - using the chromecast I have embedding CCTV is not an option because it can't cope. Oh well, looks like I'm going to need a better chromecast :)
Nice idea, I think I'll give it a shot. I would venture a guess your camera issues are the camera, Reolink works fine in the native app but pretty much sucks everywhere else, that has been my experience.
Awesome video. I currently set mine up to stop casting after 5 min. I think this weekend I will do ones that cast a dashboard with video when there is motion at night. If this works well for me, I may have to get more Google Hubs, LOL.
Hi Mark. Helpful video, thank you. For me, creating a mirror of my 4k cameras using the Camera Proxy service @ 720P and 2FPS allows those feeds to stream to pretty much everything without an issue.
Casting a dashboard with a videostream (webRTC) works reliable here on a nest hub. But when casting a dashboard with 2 camera views on it, it gets problematic, and with more then 2 cams the nest hub crashes and will only recover by pulling the plug.
Whenever I do this it fails. I gave up on it a long time ago and stopped trying. The Nabu Casa casting page where you enter your external URL worked fine, but not my local HA trying to do it natively. There's a thread about it failing and haven't seen much progress even there was a release note saying something was fixed that was broken for a long time.
Awesome video! I'll most definitely be watching more. Do you know why a nest hub max wouldn't be sending events over to smartthings or to home assistant? Ih the google home app, events and snapshots show. in the nest app they show as well. I have tried even deleting my google home account, factory reset the hub max, re added, re did all of the permissions for tying in nest cameras. I cannot figure it out for the life of me.
Will this work when internet acces is blocked after setup to nest hub? I don’t want it on my network with access to internet only going to use it as good looking home assistant screen?
I have the Google hubs in every room and have been waiting for the ability to actually put them into wall over light switches (thinking recessing the actual light switch and mounting hub in front of switch where switch would still work and be able to use by simply pulling hub out a bit) anyways - so is there a simple way to set these up for each room and have them engage screen saver for example if there is no movement in room or until screen is touched) ??? I'm new here, so you may have already covered this. TIA
Currently it’s not possible. It’s a limitation by Amazon. I’ve seen a skill you can use to open the silk browser to a set HA page in a routine. But it’s very sluggish and nowhere near as sleek as casting.
Thank you! It looks like I have to integrate Google beside Alexa if I would like to use this feature. And I do because it seems awesome to me 😍. (currently I am running Alexa on my Sonos sytem).
Nice work Mark.. Will be purchasing a nest hub to try. Was thinking you could add the stop cast service call as part of the script prior to casting. Rather than have a seperate script for stop... Any thoughts on that?
Thanks Mark, your videos are great. But I'll do have a question. I have some indivual addressable led strips in my HA that are based on WLED. On my PC dashboard, I can see all adjustments like the colour wheel and effects and can manipulate them by the mouse. On the casted dashboard I basically can only adjust brightness and an error message appears, similar to all other coloured lamps. Is there any way that the casted dashboard allows these finer tweaks from the nesthub, too? Thanks again, RR
Hello, It would be great to stop casting automaticaly. Do you know if it's possible to cast the same thing on every Chromecast at home ? For doorbells for exemple
I haven't actually tried multi casting as I don't really have a use case. Be interesting if a group of castable screens worked. You could always just include additional cast calls in your automation though.
Heya. You will need a Nabu Casa subscription or to have HA externally accessible via other means. HA Cloud is by far the simplest and the subscription goes directly towards funding the HA and ESPHome projects. It’s not region specific (im in the UK).
Hi Matt, I gave the external url setup a go. I can now access it via dynamic DNS on port 8123 wrapped in 443. I tried this and I could hear the "ding" on my home hub now, but it says "not connected". Just wondering if you might know where I possible should check? thanks
c @jasonhuang5739 not quite. I used the cloudflare method for a long time and it has been reliable until 2 months ago where things just stopped working. I'm now using a combination of NGINX and duckdns. You might wanna do some research on this as there are lots of vids on this topi
Great guide but i have problem with connecting to my nest. In the logg it says ”Failed to connect to service ServiceInfo(type='mdns', data='Google-Nest-Hub-…”. Do i need to open a port.? I have nabu casa
Great video Mark! You explained it very well and gave some good ideas!
Means a lot thank you! 🙏🏻
Some of my two favorite TH-camrs! Honestly when I see that either of you post videos I know I will have a good day because I get to watch a good smart home video 🙂
Liked and subscribed. Thanks for covering all the little side subjects like "you have to close the casting session before casting again" or "casting camera can have issues", because other youtubers don't. They are just like "hey you cast by calling a service, and it works". Nah.
Thanks Mark. I did manage to cast to my old Chromecast. However I had a bit of struggle in the beginning with WebRTC Camera integration. So the long story short, I had to set "mode: webrtc", for it to work. Otherwise it was just a black screen, even though it was showing on the web fine.
Thanks for the tutorial. For me, casting Reolink E1 outdoor sub stream works fine with lovelace panel mode.
Brilliant article Mark. This will make the information from my energy monitoring available on the tvs around the house...I will report back later.
Nice one Dave. Let us know how you get on!
@@MarkWattTech So far it's gone very well although for some reason I get different results when using a chromecast to a TV with built in functionality (I get different colour schemes - but I suspect that may be due to HA thinking the built in Chromecast is a different device but that isn't a problem
Thanks for this AWESOME tutorial Mark! I'm loving having custom visual notifications pop up on my displays for important events.
If anyone else is interested in displaying custom created media like the bin notification that Mark had here, if you're creating your own content for the google nest mini the image/moive/gif dimensions you'll need are 1024 x 600 to fit the screen perfectly. For the Nest Hub Max the dimensions you'll need to conform your content to are 1280 x 800. Happy Automating :)
I have an automation that on doorbell press casts the live camera feed to my google display, then does text to speech on all google speakers announcing someone is at the door. I use unifi protect camera setup and the camera feed is 100% reliable, i know people with other camera manufactures that get spotty performance at best.
Thanks for sharing :)
I'm still yet to delve into UniFi cameras but there on my list!
Just to add an update to this (love the article bit I've found some gotchas in my environment). I have used what I think is a gen 1 chromcast and it seems to lack the processing power to handle views thar update (such as history graphs etc). I'm experimenting with changing the refresh rates to reduce the load on the chromecast. At the moment - using the chromecast I have embedding CCTV is not an option because it can't cope. Oh well, looks like I'm going to need a better chromecast :)
Nice job Mark. Another well done, informative video.
excellent. best video on how to do this on YT. Thanks
Glad you liked it! :)
Did you ever get the automation with the camera to work? The one that auto casts on motion?
Great explanation. Nice dog BTW. Thanks
Nice idea, I think I'll give it a shot. I would venture a guess your camera issues are the camera, Reolink works fine in the native app but pretty much sucks everywhere else, that has been my experience.
Awesome video. I currently set mine up to stop casting after 5 min. I think this weekend I will do ones that cast a dashboard with video when there is motion at night. If this works well for me, I may have to get more Google Hubs, LOL.
Hi Mark. Helpful video, thank you. For me, creating a mirror of my 4k cameras using the Camera Proxy service @ 720P and 2FPS allows those feeds to stream to pretty much everything without an issue.
Thanks for sharing! :) Glad you found it helpful.
That is VERY cool!
Casting a dashboard with a videostream (webRTC) works reliable here on a nest hub. But when casting a dashboard with 2 camera views on it, it gets problematic, and with more then 2 cams the nest hub crashes and will only recover by pulling the plug.
I have something similar here. When streaming webRTC, it takes about 2-3min before being able stream.
Whenever I do this it fails. I gave up on it a long time ago and stopped trying. The Nabu Casa casting page where you enter your external URL worked fine, but not my local HA trying to do it natively. There's a thread about it failing and haven't seen much progress even there was a release note saying something was fixed that was broken for a long time.
Excellent video as usual Mark. I would be interested in how you setup and expose scripts and scenes to Google :)
Hey Darren. Sure, I’ll show this in another video :)
@@MarkWattTech thank you
If all goes well I will have something towards the end of the week. This method also changes in the release dropping Wednesday.
Awesome video! I'll most definitely be watching more. Do you know why a nest hub max wouldn't be sending events over to smartthings or to home assistant? Ih the google home app, events and snapshots show. in the nest app they show as well. I have tried even deleting my google home account, factory reset the hub max, re added, re did all of the permissions for tying in nest cameras. I cannot figure it out for the life of me.
Hey Mark great Video but do I need a Nabu Casa Subscription for Casting only?
Did you ever figure out?
Thank you.
Will this work when internet acces is blocked after setup to nest hub?
I don’t want it on my network with access to internet only going to use it as good looking home assistant screen?
I noticed the navigation bar is missing, do you know a way to cast that? No worries if not.
Have you figured this out? I'm also struggling to get the navigation bar to show
Very cool, take my like 👍
Appreciate that 😄
I have the Google hubs in every room and have been waiting for the ability to actually put them into wall over light switches (thinking recessing the actual light switch and mounting hub in front of switch where switch would still work and be able to use by simply pulling hub out a bit) anyways - so is there a simple way to set these up for each room and have them engage screen saver for example if there is no movement in room or until screen is touched) ??? I'm new here, so you may have already covered this. TIA
Heya :) I’m just working on an updated version of this video to show the new UI changes and will be covering more of the automation side.
Thanks for sharing with us Mark.
Do you know if it is possible to "cast" a lovelace dashboard to a Amazon Echo Show to?
Currently it’s not possible. It’s a limitation by Amazon. I’ve seen a skill you can use to open the silk browser to a set HA page in a routine. But it’s very sluggish and nowhere near as sleek as casting.
Thank you! It looks like I have to integrate Google beside Alexa if I would like to use this feature. And I do because it seems awesome to me 😍. (currently I am running Alexa on my Sonos sytem).
Nice work Mark.. Will be purchasing a nest hub to try. Was thinking you could add the stop cast service call as part of the script prior to casting. Rather than have a seperate script for stop... Any thoughts on that?
Thanks Paul.
You could do yes :) you could also give it a set time to cast for.
For casting camera feeds, can't you skip the dash and view completely, and cast the media stream?
You will be able to in the update next week :)
Thanks Mark, your videos are great.
But I'll do have a question. I have some indivual addressable led strips in my HA that are based on WLED. On my PC dashboard, I can see all adjustments like the colour wheel and effects and can manipulate them by the mouse. On the casted dashboard I basically can only adjust brightness and an error message appears, similar to all other coloured lamps. Is there any way that the casted dashboard allows these finer tweaks from the nesthub, too?
Thanks again, RR
Heya :) in the device settings you should see a drop down which lists all the effects. You can then select and change :)
@@MarkWattTech Thanks, it works but not always realibly. Keep watching your great videos!
Thanks for showing this, I'm more comfortable having Amazon than Google in my house, is anything like that coming to a Amazon fire stick? Cheers
I’d love it to work on the firestick. As soon as it does I’ll let you know :)
Hello,
It would be great to stop casting automaticaly.
Do you know if it's possible to cast the same thing on every Chromecast at home ?
For doorbells for exemple
I haven't actually tried multi casting as I don't really have a use case. Be interesting if a group of castable screens worked. You could always just include additional cast calls in your automation though.
@@MarkWattTech i'll try multi casting
Great ideas!! One question: For how long time will it cast until it automaticlly close?
I found a blueprint that will automatically recast it so it doesn't time out, forgot the exact name
@@ryanmahoney5657 If you have time could you please provide the name of the blue print :)
Hopefully TH-cam doesn't block the link but the blueprint is called "Cast and re-cast a lovelace view to a Google Hub" by Kind3r
Hi Mark, as I'm new to HA, do I need to be subscribed to the HA Cloud for this to work? and seems like it's only available for US users? ta
Heya. You will need a Nabu Casa subscription or to have HA externally accessible via other means. HA Cloud is by far the simplest and the subscription goes directly towards funding the HA and ESPHome projects.
It’s not region specific (im in the UK).
Hi Matt, I gave the external url setup a go. I can now access it via dynamic DNS on port 8123 wrapped in 443. I tried this and I could hear the "ding" on my home hub now, but it says "not connected". Just wondering if you might know where I possible should check? thanks
@@unlock-er Hi, I also have this problem, did you solve it?
c @jasonhuang5739 not quite. I used the cloudflare method for a long time and it has been reliable until 2 months ago where things just stopped working. I'm now using a combination of NGINX and duckdns. You might wanna do some research on this as there are lots of vids on this topi
I've got "Not Connected" and unable to connect to the Home Assistant websocket API 😞
did you manage to get anywhere with this i have the same issue
Great guide but i have problem with connecting to my nest. In the logg it says ”Failed to connect to service ServiceInfo(type='mdns', data='Google-Nest-Hub-…”. Do i need to open a port.? I have nabu casa
Sadly it doesn't work with button-cards :(
I think a few cards render a little odd in casting. It will hopefully improve in future updates :)
@@MarkWattTech Awesome ! If it can help, it says "custom element doesn't exist: button-card".