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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 plent
by 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 agoSo if I'd like a custom dashboard I can? How do I start?
- Zandikar 3y agoDashboard 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 agoExactly! Let's say Heimdall for example. It's a simple website. Can I "cast" that to the chromecast?
- Shish2k 3y agohttp://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 agoSo, there goes my next evening! :D Thank you!