Show HN: Control Chromecasts from Linux

Post by m-p-3 » Sat, Sep 19, 2020, 7:54 PM UTC

fragmede wrote: post #29

m-p-3 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe so, and it's less than useful on network with a captive portals like hotel rooms. At least the upcoming Chromecast with Google TV comes with a remote, so you should be able to interact with the captive portal and use it that way.

While the chromecast's inability to work with captive portals is it's own problem, they make tiny wifi routers, half as tall and twice as thick as a smartphone, and they're cheap. If you find yourself facing captive portals more than once, I'd recommend buying one so you can use your Chromecast in hotel rooms, among other use cases.

Post by Inversechi » Sat, Sep 19, 2020, 8:44 PM UTC

balloob wrote: post #14

Author of pychromecast here, the underlying library that this project uses to control the Chromecast. I wrote this lib initially for use in Home Assistant, https://www.home-assistant.io For Home Assistant I made a rule that all device drivers are stand-alone Home Assistant agnostic Python packages. That way more projects can use it. Glad to see that strategy is working out and it powering projects like this

Post by emayljames » Sat, Sep 19, 2020, 8:51 PM UTC

ebg13 wrote: post #3

I can't tell from this project's readme how to actually play things. It has an instruction for connecting to your chromecast...ok, and then what? In the past I've used https://github.com/keredson/gnomecast which is a standalone simple media player that transcodes if needed and streams to my Chromecast. Thoughts on what this provides that's better?

Post by hugg » Sat, Sep 19, 2020, 9:02 PM UTC

hansjorg wrote: post #26

Title says 'from Linux', but the README says 'Linux / *BSD / macOS' under 'Requirements'. How would this work on macOS?

Post by Rebelgecko » Sat, Sep 19, 2020, 10:43 PM UTC

fragmede wrote: post #29

m-p-3 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe so, and it's less than useful on network with a captive portals like hotel rooms. At least the upcoming Chromecast with Google TV comes with a remote, so you should be able to interact with the captive portal and use it that way.

While the chromecast's inability to work with captive portals is it's own problem, they make tiny wifi routers, half as tall and twice as thick as a smartphone, and they're cheap. If you find yourself facing captive portals more than once, I'd recommend buying one so you can use your Chromecast in hotel rooms, among other use cases.