terrabythia/dart_chromecast

dart_chromecast

Dart package to play videos to a chromecast device. Pub.dev package: https://pub.dev/packages/dart_chromecast

This package is currently under development and the API can change completely at some point. Use at your own risk.

Simplified port of https://github.com/thibauts/node-castv2-client.

Update 0.2.0: added MDNS finder, you can now omit the --host parameter and it will ask you which chromecast to use

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Find the IP address of your chromecast on mac OS

This is the way I found the IP address of my ChromeCast on my Mac. This is not guaranteed to work for everyone, but if it helps anyone, here are the terminal commands:

$ dns-sd -B _googlecast local

Copy the instance name

$ dns-sd -L <IntanceName> _googlecast._tcp. local.

Copy the name (without the port) directly after the text ' can be reached at '...

$ dns-sd -Gv4v6 <Paste>

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See https://github.com/terrabythia/flutter_chromecast_example for an example implementation in Flutter of both the flutter_mdns_plugin and this repository.

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usage

options

media space separated list of one or more media source urls

host (optional) IP address of a ChromeCast device in the same network that you are on.

port (optional) port of the ChromeCast device. Defaults to 8009.

flags

--append (-a) whether to append the passed in media to the current playlist and not replace the current playlist (if reconnecting was successful). Defaults to false.
--debug (-d) whether to show all info logs, defaults to false.

usage

dart example/main.dart <media> [--host <host> [--port <port> [--append [ --debug]]]]

playback control

In this demo the following keys can be used to control the playback of the video:

space toggle paused state
s stop playback
esc disconnect device
left arrow key seek -10 seconds
right arrow key seek +10 seconds

example

dart example/main.dart http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/ForBiggerFun.mp4

reconnecting to active session

When you exit the command line without disconnecting the device, the video will keep playing. To reconnect without messing with the current playlist, just run the command without any media urls. Eg:

dart example/main.dart --host=192.168.1.1