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This looks interesting Chromecast should be more open and hackable -- there are a number of small projects we could do to get interesting use out of these devi

This looks interesting Chromecast should be more open and hackable -- there are a number of small projects we could do to get interesting use out of these devices also I wish Picture-in-Picture (PIP) or overlaying text/video stream with alpha transparency/blending over another video stream is more widely supported in consumer devices I may want to utilize my big screen displays for work but put a small view of scoreboard / live sports from another device somewhere

sand500 3y ago
There are already a number of Android TV based boxes/sticks out there that are quite hackable. The only thing Chromecast adds is integration with the phone apps.
xyzzy_plugh 3y ago
Chromecast is very hackable, it's literally just running a browser. Most anything that you can put on a webpage you can display on a Chromecast. There are plenty of PIP integrations in the wild. From a client perspective it's not trivial to say "display another video on top of this one in a region" and I am not sure how you could achieve that while making it "simpler" than it is today.
- eurekin 3y ago
  So if I'd like a custom dashboard I can? How do I start?
  - Zandikar 3y ago
    Dashboard in what sense? Is this what you had in mind or no? https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#personal-dashboards https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#per...
    - eurekin 3y ago
      Exactly! Let's say Heimdall for example. It's a simple website. Can I "cast" that to the chromecast?
      - Shish2k 3y ago
        http://stestagg.github.io/dashcast/ http://stestagg.github.io/dashcast/ allows you to display arbitrary URLs on your device. From my experience doing so is built on a pile of hacks (it’s not actually casting an arbitrary URL, it’s casting the registered-with-google dashcast App ID, and then the dashcast app loads an arbirary URL inside it), but the end result mostly works
        eurekin 3y ago
        So, there goes my next evening! :D Thank you!

sand500 3y ago

There are already a number of Android TV based boxes/sticks out there that are quite hackable. The only thing Chromecast adds is integration with the phone apps.

xyzzy_plugh 3y ago

Chromecast is very hackable, it's literally just running a browser. Most anything that you can put on a webpage you can display on a Chromecast. There are plenty of PIP integrations in the wild. From a client perspective it's not trivial to say "display another video on top of this one in a region" and I am not sure how you could achieve that while making it "simpler" than it is today.

eurekin 3y ago
So if I'd like a custom dashboard I can? How do I start?
- Zandikar 3y ago
  Dashboard in what sense? Is this what you had in mind or no? https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#personal-dashboards https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#per...
  - eurekin 3y ago
    Exactly! Let's say Heimdall for example. It's a simple website. Can I "cast" that to the chromecast?
    - Shish2k 3y ago
      http://stestagg.github.io/dashcast/ http://stestagg.github.io/dashcast/ allows you to display arbitrary URLs on your device. From my experience doing so is built on a pile of hacks (it’s not actually casting an arbitrary URL, it’s casting the registered-with-google dashcast App ID, and then the dashcast app loads an arbirary URL inside it), but the end result mostly works
      - eurekin 3y ago
        So, there goes my next evening! :D Thank you!