leapcast

Chromecast API v2 (develop branch)

In order to get it working again, we need to:

Implement MDNS discovery (done)
Implement Chrome Cast channel on port 8009 (https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/chrome/browser/extensions/api/cast_channel/&sq=package:chromium&type=cs)

Working:

Youtube (with https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.youtube)

Other apps are not supported because Chromecast now uses V2 of protocol.

Authors

The following persons have contributed to leapcast.

Janez Troha
Tyler Hall
Edward Shaw
Jan Henrik
Martin Polden
Thomas Taschauer
Zenobius Jiricek
Ernes Durakovic
Peter Sanford
Michel Tu
Kaiwen Xu
Norman Rasmussen
Sven Wischnowsky

How to install

Simple

Clone this directory, then run python setup.py develop or pip install leapcast

Better

git clone https://github.com/dz0ny/leapcast.git
cd ./leapcast
sudo apt-get install virtualenvwrapper python-pip python-twisted-web python2.7-dev
mkvirtualenv leapcast
pip install .

Windows

For those on Windows(tm) follow this guide https://gist.github.com/eyecatchup/6219118 or https://plus.google.com/100317092290545434762/posts/8RjWfMXxje8

usage: leapcast [-h] [-d] [-i IPADDRESS] [--name NAME]
                [--user_agent USER_AGENT] [--chrome CHROME] [--fullscreen]
                [--window_size WINDOW_SIZE] [--ips IPS] [--apps APPS]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -d, --debug           Debug
  -i IPADDRESS, --interface IPADDRESS
                        Interface to bind to (can be specified multiple times)
  --name NAME           Friendly name for this device
  --user_agent USER_AGENT
                        Custom user agent
  --chrome CHROME       Path to Google Chrome executable
  --fullscreen          Start in full-screen mode
  --window_size WINDOW_SIZE
                        Set the initial chrome window size. eg 1920,1080
  --ips IPS             Allowed ips from which clients can connect
  --apps APPS           Add apps from JSON file