dart_chromecast

Dart package to play videos to a chromecast device

This package is currently under development and not ready for real use! The API will most likely change completely. Also no guarantees of this project working at all until it has its first stable release.

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

Originally designed to work in Flutter with the flutter_mdns_plugin https://github.com/terrabythia/flutter_mdns_plugin, so this cli project does not include a mdns browser, you should find out what the local ip address and port of your ChromeCast is yourself.

options

media space separated list of one or more media source urls

host 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 whether to append the passed in media to the current playlist and not replace the current playlist (if reconnecting was successful). Defaults to false.

usage

dart index.dart <media> --host <host> --port <port> [--append]

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 index.dart http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/ForBiggerFun.mp4 http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/BigBuckBunny.mp4 --host=192.168.1.1

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 index.dart --host=192.168.1.1