iobroker.chromecast

ioBroker.chromecast

A Chromecast adapter for ioBorker

This plugin allows to detect video and/or Chromecast devices. For each detect Chromecast device an ioBroker device is created. This device displays the status of the device and allows to send it a new URL to cast.

Build on top of the following projects:

• ioBroker
• node-castv2-client as Chromecast client library.

Instructions

1. Install into ioBroker
   1. Go to your ioBroker Adapters tab
   2. Select and install Chromecast adapter
2. Add an instance of the Chromecast adapter
   • it should automatically run after it is installed
3. (optional) If you plan to stream local files you need to configure the adapter
   • you need to have an ioBroker web server instance
4. Check your log: you should see logs about the detected devices
5. Write an URL such as http://edge.live.mp3.mdn.newmedia.nacamar.net/ps-dieneue_rock/livestream_hi.mp3 to the chromecast.0.<your chromecast name>.player.url2play
6. The URL should start playing on your device

Features

• detect devices with either SSDP or multicast-dns
• create ioBroker objects for each found device
• status, player, media and metadata channels
• control Chromecast device from adapter
  • set volume
  • mute/unmute
  • stop broadcasting
  • pause
  • play url (chromecast.0.<your chromecast name>.player.url2play)
    • tested with MP3
      • Full list of formats here.
    • when the url does not start with http then assume that this is a local file
      • export file via ioBroker web server
    • it does not support list files such as .m3u
• Vis widget
  • NOTE: requires patched vis adapter.
• Initial support for Chromecast audio groups
  • Note: this does not work with SSDP -> disable by default in adapter settings

What is missing?

• use semaphores to avoid race conditions
• add state machine to track states: detected ->connected -> player loader -> playing
• add retries: sometimes the Chromecast fails to respond to a request
• more testing

Changelog

1.0.4

• (Vegetto) Forgot the github before the npm publish

1.0.3

• (Vegetto) Fix widget crashing when devId is not set

1.0.2

• (Vegetto) Fix deprecation warning - use dns-txt instead of mdns-txt

1.0.1

• (Vegetto) Fix exception

1.0.0

• (Vegetto) Try to play last played URL when setting playing state to true
• (Vegetto) Fix jshint and jscs findings

0.2.1

• (Vegetto) Update readme
• (Vegetto) Integrated into iobroker: listed there

0.2.0

• (Vegetto) Add vis widget (Alpha)
• (Vegetto) Performance improvements

0.1.4

• (Vegetto) Stability fixes - error handling, race-condition fixes, etc
• (Vegetto) Clean getMediaInfo handler when disconnecting player
• (Vegetto) Added support to retrieve ICY metadata from https sources
• (Vegetto) Moved code for querying media info to a separate class
• (Vegetto) Support dynamic IP/port changes (audio groups)

0.1.3

• (Vegetto) Added re-connection with retries. Will try for up 42 hours.
• (Vegetto) Support for triggering a reconnection by writing to .status.connected
• (Vegetto) Fixed race condition when playing local file
• (Vegetto) Added support for playing local files
• (Bluefox) Russian translations
• (Vegetto) Update stale metadata when not present in player status
• (Vegetto) Initial support for audio groups
• (Vegetto) Retrieve media type and title from URLs that support ICY
• (Vegetto) Added displayName, isActiveInput and isStandBy status

0.1.2

• (Vegetto) Merge base

0.1.1

• (Vegetto) Fix package syntax
• (Vegetto) Fix package dependencies

0.1.0

• (Vegetto) Initial release

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Vegetto [e-mail]

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