Crast

Crast is a simple open-source interface to pychromecast. It aims to make streaming local (or remote) files to a Chromecast device trivial.

Note: Now you can cast media with VLC 3.0

It currently supports:

• Command line interface
• Searching and displaying local Chromecasts
• Playing local and remote URLs
• Basic commands

In the future I'd like to add:

• Interactive controls
  • So you don't have to search for Chromecasts everytime
  • Display feedback, current state, messages, etc
  • Press keys to send commands immediately
• Stream desktop
  • https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Capture/Desktop
  • https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/StreamingGuide
• Basic GUI
  • Something like https://airflowapp.com/

Let's get started:

git clone https://github.com/tompreston/crast.git
cd crast
make init
pipenv shell
python crast.py --help

Play URL

python crast.py --device "Living Room TV" --url http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/BigBuckBunny.mp4
python crast.py -d L -u http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/BigBuckBunny.mp4
python crast.py -u http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/BigBuckBunny.mp4

Controls

python crast.py --device "Living Room TV" --command play
python crast.py -d "Living Room TV" -c pause
python crast.py -d L -c stop
python crast.py -d L -c skip
python crast.py -d L -c rewind

Playing local files

Host the files:

python -m http.server

Then tell Chromecast to play the file:

python crast.py -u http://192.168.0.122:8000/video.mp4
python crast.py -u http://192.168.0.122:8000/music.mp3
python crast.py -u http://192.168.0.122:8000/picture.jpg

Launch apps

python crast.py --app-start youtube
python crast.py -a spotify