VIZIO SmartCast in Home Assistant
vizio
part of Home Assistant since 0.49
VIZIO SmartCast is an official Home Assistant integration for Media player and Remote. Talks to the device on your own network and asks for changes at regular intervals.
Facts about this integration
- Compatible with Home Assistant
- yes, official integration
- Connection
- Local, polling – Talks to the device on your own network and asks for changes at regular intervals.
- Setup
- in the user interface
- Kind
- Single device
- Quality scale
- Platinum – The highest level: fully typed, efficient and maintained to every rule of the project.
- Installations
- 3,865 (0.6 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Media player, Remote
- Provides
- Binary sensor, Diagnostics, Media player, Remote, Sensor
- Found automatically via
- Network discovery (Zeroconf)
- Maintained by
- @raman325
- Python packages
vizaio==0.7.0
Setup
- Home Assistant can find this integration on its own: if it is suggested under Settings → Devices & services, confirm it there.
- In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
- Click "Add integration" and search for VIZIO SmartCast.
- Follow the dialog – it asks for everything the integration needs.
The link goes through my.home-assistant.io and opens the setup dialog in your own instance – no address of ours is involved.
Known issues and fixes
1 open issues and 10 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for VIZIO SmartCast in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.9.2.
Open
- open Reported problem #168965
Fixed
- fixed in 2026.9.2 Bug fix #181556
- fixed in 2026.9.2 Bug fix #181417
- fixed in 2026.8.3 Bug fix #179431
- fixed in 2026.7.3 Bug fix #176628
Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of September 17, 2026. The sentences are written by a language model from the titles of the issues; the reports themselves are on GitHub.
Check a specific device for known problems in the product check →
Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration