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Cast media

Immich supports the Google's Cast protocol so that photos and videos can be cast to devices such as a Chromecast and a Nest Hub. This feature is considered experimental and has several important limitations listed below.

Enable Google Cast Support​

Google Cast support is disabled by default. The web UI uses Google-provided scripts and must retrieve them from Google servers when the page loads. This is a privacy concern for some and is thus opt-in.

You can enable Google Cast support through Account Settings > Features > Cast > Google Cast

Limitations​

To use casting with Immich, there are a few prerequisites:

  1. Your instance must be accessed via an HTTPS connection in order for the casting menu to show.
  2. Your instance must be publicly accessible via HTTPS and a DNS record for the server must be accessible via Google's DNS servers (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4)
  3. Videos must be in a format that is compatible with Google Cast (see Supported Media Formats for what Immich itself accepts). For more info, check out Google's documentation