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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, htt

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 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

atomi 6y ago
It would be incredible if there was a way to use mpsyt to watch Youtube videos with your library.
- msla 6y ago
  It's possible if you hook something running Kodi up to your TV. Here's some example code I wrote, in the form of a few ZSH shell scripts: https://github.com/chbarts/kodi-command-line https://github.com/chbarts/kodi-command-line The logic should port nicely to other languages. In particular, it shows how to do things like playing a YouTube video using either the URL or just the hash, plus, of course, a way to play videos on the computer you're running the commands from.
Inversechi 6y ago
And thank you for giving us not only pychromecast but home-assistant :)
kingosticks 6y ago
Thank you for pychromecast, balloob. I know there's no real requirement but I wish projects like this would give attribution where it's due. This project benefits hugely from pychromecast but there's nothing in the readme mentioning that. Just seems a bit off.
qwertygnu 6y ago
It's always awesome to see early, potentially unfruitful decisions workout in a project.
andrewshadura 6y ago
Thank you for the library, but I wish you paid more attention to the backwards compatibility and didn't break it that often. The unannounced changes recently broke mkchromecast twice in different ways.
- andrewshadura 6y ago
  By the way, even the pychromecast examples broke with those updates. Very frustrating to see as a 1) user of mkchromecast, 2) user of pychromecast, 3) maintainer of both in Debian
1vuio0pswjnm7 6y ago
Isn't there a workaround to get Chromecast to accept user changes in DNS settings. Maybe use DHCP on the user's router to suggest user-chosen DNS servers. I have forgotten. The big show stopper with Chromecast is that Google makes it difficult for the user to set their own DNS servers. As I recall, with the early Chromecast models, users could replace the Google OS with a modified one that let users choose their own DNS servers. One technique used a Teensy. Subsequent Google updates I believe closed off that option.
this_machine 6y ago
Thanks for your work on pychromecast, I've looked and it's the best supported library for working with Chromecasts out there. It was also pleasant to integrate into this project. Does the pychromecast project use semantic versioning? I've had to pin the library to a specific version after running into an API breaking change on what would be a minor or patch update to 7.X if the project used SemVer.

atomi 6y ago

It would be incredible if there was a way to use mpsyt to watch Youtube videos with your library.

msla 6y ago
It's possible if you hook something running Kodi up to your TV. Here's some example code I wrote, in the form of a few ZSH shell scripts: https://github.com/chbarts/kodi-command-line https://github.com/chbarts/kodi-command-line The logic should port nicely to other languages. In particular, it shows how to do things like playing a YouTube video using either the URL or just the hash, plus, of course, a way to play videos on the computer you're running the commands from.

Inversechi 6y ago

And thank you for giving us not only pychromecast but home-assistant :)

kingosticks 6y ago

Thank you for pychromecast, balloob. I know there's no real requirement but I wish projects like this would give attribution where it's due. This project benefits hugely from pychromecast but there's nothing in the readme mentioning that. Just seems a bit off.

qwertygnu 6y ago

It's always awesome to see early, potentially unfruitful decisions workout in a project.

andrewshadura 6y ago

Thank you for the library, but I wish you paid more attention to the backwards compatibility and didn't break it that often. The unannounced changes recently broke mkchromecast twice in different ways.

andrewshadura 6y ago
By the way, even the pychromecast examples broke with those updates. Very frustrating to see as a 1) user of mkchromecast, 2) user of pychromecast, 3) maintainer of both in Debian

1vuio0pswjnm7 6y ago

Isn't there a workaround to get Chromecast to accept user changes in DNS settings. Maybe use DHCP on the user's router to suggest user-chosen DNS servers. I have forgotten. The big show stopper with Chromecast is that Google makes it difficult for the user to set their own DNS servers. As I recall, with the early Chromecast models, users could replace the Google OS with a modified one that let users choose their own DNS servers. One technique used a Teensy. Subsequent Google updates I believe closed off that option.

this_machine 6y ago

Thanks for your work on pychromecast, I've looked and it's the best supported library for working with Chromecasts out there. It was also pleasant to integrate into this project. Does the pychromecast project use semantic versioning? I've had to pin the library to a specific version after running into an API breaking change on what would be a minor or patch update to 7.X if the project used SemVer.