Mkcrhomecast crashes after installing in Manjaro using yay

[cprpolo]

When launching it crashes straight away with Devices not found:

mkchromecast Mkchromecast v0.3.8.1 Creating Pulseaudio Sink... Open Pavucontrol and Select the Mkchromecast Sink. Starting Local Streaming Server [Done] Selected backend: parec Selected audio codec: mp3 Default bitrate used: 192k Default sample rate used: 44100Hz. No devices found!

• Serving Flask app "mkchromecast.audio" (lazy loading)
• Environment: production WARNING: This is a development server. Do not use it in a production deployment. PID of main process: 32780 Use a production WSGI server instead. PID of streaming process: 32789
• Debug mode: off
• Running on http://0.0.0.0:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit) Cleaning up /tmp/... [Done] Killed

tried with debug:

mkchromecast --debug -t ALSA device name: None. Google Cast name: None. backends: ['ffmpeg', 'avconv', 'parec', 'gstreamer'] ALSA device name: None. Google Cast name: None. backends: ['ffmpeg', 'avconv', 'parec', 'gstreamer'] USER =username PATH =/home/username/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/default/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl:/var/lib/snapd/snap/bin Mkchromecast v0.3.8.1 :::cast::: sockets method 192.168.178.20 /usr/share/mkchromecast/mkchromecast/systray.py:797: SyntaxWarning: "is" with a literal. Did you mean "=="? if platform is 'Darwin': /usr/share/mkchromecast/mkchromecast/systray.py:803: SyntaxWarning: "is" with a literal. Did you mean "=="? if platform is 'Linux': /usr/share/mkchromecast/mkchromecast/systray.py:864: SyntaxWarning: "is" with a literal. Did you mean "=="? if platform is 'Darwin' and self.notifications is 'enabled': /usr/share/mkchromecast/mkchromecast/systray.py:864: SyntaxWarning: "is" with a literal. Did you mean "=="? if platform is 'Darwin' and self.notifications is 'enabled': :::audio::: chunk_size, frame_size, buffer_size: 64, 2048, 8192 :::audio::: Program /usr/bin/parec found in /usr/bin/parec :::audio::: backend dictionary {'parec': 'parec', '/usr/bin/parec': 'parec'} Selected backend: /usr/bin/parec Selected audio codec: mp3 Default bitrate used: 192k Default sample rate used: 44100Hz. :::audio::: command ['lame', '-b', '192', '-r', '-'] :::cast::: sockets method 192.168.178.20 :::systray::: self.notifications disabled :::systray::: self.searchatlaunch disabled :::systray::: self.colors black :::systray::: Screen resolution: 1920 1080 :::systray::: High-DPI screen detected... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/mkchromecast", line 283, in mk() File "/usr/bin/mkchromecast", line 59, in init self.start_tray() File "/usr/bin/mkchromecast", line 280, in start_tray mkchromecast.systray.main() File "/usr/share/mkchromecast/mkchromecast/systray.py", line 910, in main menubar() File "/usr/share/mkchromecast/mkchromecast/systray.py", line 173, in init self.createUI() File "/usr/share/mkchromecast/mkchromecast/systray.py", line 178, in createUI self.ag = QtWidgets.QActionGroup(self, exclusive=True) TypeError: 'exclusive' is an unknown keyword argument

[caiges]

Can confirm this as well.

[ShawnMcCool]

I solved this by running yay -S pulseaudio-dlna and selecting the third option "pulseaudio-dlna-python3-git".

Then it'd run but I'd get a blackscreen on the chromecast..

I uninstalled it all and reinstalled the 'git' version of the package and it worked perfectly.

[BerenLuth]

Same exact error here. When I tried to install pulseaudio-dlna it showed only two options and no -python3-git option, I tried to install one of the other versions anyway but unfortunately it didn't fix the problem.

[diegomachadosoares]

Hi, guys.

Had the exact same problem on Archlinux. As @BerenLuth said, when looking for pulseaudio-dlna (also using yay), only two options appear and none of them had -python3-git. But for me it fixed installing the first option which is just pulseaudio-dlna.

Hope it helps!

[vannaka]

This is a duplicate of issue: https://github.com/muammar/mkchromecast/issues/29. See that issue for another fix, the one here didn't work for me.

[chaorace]

Installing pulseaudio-dlna via AUR also resolved the issue for me on Manjaro.