Chromecast Support is the must

[korrio]

Any help in supporting for this feature? I can support you my (unused) Cast Developer accounts

[dularion]

Thats really cool! Yea, I need some help with it I think. Never developed to their API. Also, I need to buy a chromecast. But thats been overdue anyway :)

[z3ntu]

+1 for Chromecast!

[dularion]

Anyone feel like donating one? :P

[z3ntu]

Sorry^^

[hijak]

buy one!! best £30 ive ever spent

[z3ntu]

Or 35€ or how many swedish kronas 35€/30£ are :)

[dularion]

:D yeah Ill order one now. You convinced me

[mattdbr]

You won't regret it, only thing I can fault is hardcoded DNS but hey it was $40 and means i don't need to bring cables everywhere.

[stramel]

:+1: Definitely a feature that is a must in all good streaming apps.

[dularion]

I bought one now and I am sort of stumped. if default html5 controls are enabled, chromecast for mobile adds a little chromecast symbol. Great, exactly what we want. But since I created a custom gui, I cant seem to find a way to speak to the api in regards to casting... I will have to do some more digging, but if any of you know of a way to enable the default html5 casting without using the default html5 video gui, I would be thankful!

[stramel]

@dularion It looks like since you created your own GUI for the player you will have to manually add the button. I'm not sure if there is an easier way to hook into the default chromecast support or not. However, this article talks a bit about using Angular and the chromecast API. http://semanticmedia.byu.edu/2013/09/continuing-with-chromecast-embedding-youtube-into-custom-receivers.html

[dularion]

Thanks! Will take a look. But just now another pragmatic solution hit me. That little button only seems to appear on mobile anyway (unless i'm doing something wrong on my local machine), so what about this: for a mobile user...

• the default html5 gui is used
• the custom functionality (next video & episode browser) are added in a auto-hide top-bar. It anyway doesnt all fit in the bottom.
• And that way, on mobile, I would have the default chrome cast button.

What do you think?

[stramel]

@dularion I believe for Chrome you must have the Chromecast extension installed.

Yes, I think that using the default GUI would be a good idea to allow that functionality but on the other hand you are losing some of the UX look/feel that you originally designed.

Google has added a handful of examples on using the chromecast API. https://github.com/googlecast

[dularion]

I have the extension, the buttons still don't show up though. For instance here http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_video.asp the button appears in mobile, but does not appear in my chrome on mac (extension installed).

Regarding UX: for a mobile phone I don't care too much about the UX tbh, maybe I should? That I why I would do that sacrifice. But only on mobile.

Thanks for the link to the resources. Will take a look at it.

[Bitsnoxx]

Have you seen this repo? http://marcbuils.github.io/chromecastjs/

It may be outdated now, I don`t know

[mattdbr]

No demo, I might try to set it up and test later.

[dularion]

Ok, so I added the basic html5 chromecast functionality now. To test it, you guys have to go on your local version (or my demo-page) on your mobile device and fullscreen a video. when you do, you should have the regular GUI of html5, with the chromecast button. But I (on my old samsung galaxy 3) have the issue, that it tries to connect with chromecast but cancels connection again after a view seconds. Can anyone reproduce this or does it work for you guys (hoping!) ?

[z3ntu]

Doesn't work for me too :( Android 4.2.2 Chrome Dev

[z3ntu]

Any update? This would be the top feature to use streama :+1:

[dularion]

For me it works with https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.twokit.castbrowser&hl=en

[dularion]

And same for iPhone. Works pretty well actually! But I'll add proper support later on. Does this work for you?

[TheConnMan]

For Chrome I've found https://gist.github.com/guerrerocarlos/3aca64069853d8d24a83b481246f23ca which is a pretty lightweight example of casting the media file directly to the Chromecast.

[ahirschberg]

Hi, is any work being done on this currently? I'd be happy to donate my time to work on getting proper cast support up and running, but I don't want to step on anyone's toes if the feature is already being worked on.

[ferferga]

I would have definitely switched over streama if it had Chromecast support, but unfortunately there is nothing I can help with to have it available :(

[pagenoare]

any update on this? I can help if needed as well

[CardealRusso]

bump

[cjriemens]

are there currently any plans to add chromecast support?

[coatmaker618]

What is the current state of chromecast? It looks as if you almost kinda got it working @dularion or am I misreading this chat?

Only asking cause I really want this to work :p

[lgonzale44]

Esta funcionalidad no anda. El dispositivo de cast abre la app de chrome pero no comienza a transmitir contenido nunca el servidor. si hay algun update, será bienvenido.