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SamDel / ChromeCast-Desktop-Audio-Streamer

Stream the sound of your desktop to your Chromecast Audio device
MIT License
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Chromecast audio *from* Android *to* PC? #86

Open Wizek opened 3 years ago

Wizek commented 3 years ago

This app is nice to stream from PC to Google Home, but I wonder if it could work to cast from Android to PC as well?

There exists this old and abandoned project:

https://github.com/dz0ny/leapcast https://github.com/dz0ny/leapcast/issues/130

They say that their deprecation happened because v2 of the Chromecast API's receiver needs to have some kind of hardware key. v1 did not need that. However very few services are compatible with v1. I wonder what this project uses? Still v1? Or has it managed to leap over to v2 bypassing the lack of that key somehow? Or perhaps that key is only required to be a receiving device, not a sending device?

SamDel commented 3 years ago

This project uses the low-level Chromecast protocol as described here (v2). I don't know if all parts of this application, like capturing system sound etc., will work in Android. The communication with the devices should work in Android as well (as long as the Chromecast API stays the same).

I don't know anything about leapcast. It looks like that project was using other apps/apis on the Chromecast.