Show a dashboard on a Chromecast, Google TV or Nest Hub

Follow these steps in your own Denframe. This website never connects to your household, your accounts or your devices, and never asks for your credentials.

1. 1

   Put the screen and Denframe on one network

   Denframe finds Cast screens on its own network and lists them on Home. A screen has to reach Denframe back to load a dashboard, so finding it is not enough: check that LAN receiver access is on, and that no guest Wi-Fi, client isolation, firewall or VPN sits between them.

   Speakers and speaker groups are Cast destinations too, but only for sound: they cannot show a dashboard.

   Connection	What it shows	What it needs
   Chromecast or Google Cast	Dashboards on Cast displays; supported media on Cast devices	A Cast receiver Denframe can reach, which can reach Denframe back
   A paired TV browser	The full dashboard with live updates	A compatible browser, opened by hand, and a pairing you approve
   UPnP media renderer	Single supported photos or videos	Experimental discovery and playback turned on, and a renderer that plays the format
   DIAL alone	Nothing of Denframe’s: it finds and launches TV apps	An app-specific launch; Denframe cannot launch itself through DIAL

2. 2

   Cast a dashboard

   On Home, Cast a look lists your dashboards. When only one screen is online, or the screen you last used is online, a card’s cast button names it: press it to cast there. Otherwise the button says Cast and opens the list of screens. The arrow beside it always lists them: choose one. You can also drag a dashboard card onto a screen’s tile.

   To start from the screen instead, press Change on its tile: the dashboards then offer Cast here.

3. 3

   Know what the compatibility receiver can do

   Denframe casts through DashCast, a third-party compatibility receiver, until its own Cast receiver is published. It shows the dashboard and keeps it updated, one way: the tile says Showing. DashCast’s availability and device compatibility can vary. Live session controls (adding a dashboard to a screen’s rotation, trying one on a screen, pause and next) need Denframe’s dedicated receiver.

   Advanced: if you host your own registered Cast receiver (Google’s Custom Web Receiver setup ↗ (opens in a new tab)), set DENFRAME_RECEIVER_APP_ID to its app ID on the host, and DENFRAME_HOSTED_RECEIVER_ORIGIN to the HTTPS origin it is served from, then restart Denframe. In the Home Assistant app these are the receiver_app_id and hosted_receiver_origin options. This is separate from pairing a browser display.

4. 4

   On a Nest Hub, preview at its size

   A Nest Hub or Nest Hub Max is a Cast display: cast to it like a Chromecast. In the editor, Preview on offers its shapes: Small smart display (1024×600) for a Nest Hub and Landscape panel 16:10 (1280×800) for a Hub Max, and once a Hub has connected, text is sized for reading at a kitchen counter.

   Touch and sound on a Nest Hub are unverified: treat it as a display to look at.

5. 5

   Check it worked

   The dashboard is on the screen, and its tile on Home shows what it is showing. A TV that only appears through DIAL, without Google Cast, is not a Cast receiver: use its web browser instead.