[Add]: Cast All The Things

[D0rd]

Short description of the app

Cast All The Things allows you to send videos from online sources (YouTube, Vimeo, and a few hundred others) to your Chromecast. It also allows you to cast local files or render websites.

Sources

https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt

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[stavros-k]

I can't see how this will work as a kubernetes app? If I'm getting this correctly, for EACH video you want to play, you have to get on a terminal and catt cast VIDEOLINK

It doesn't even have a docker image, the only related to docker that has available in github, it's a python image.

I think it would be much much easier to enter shell on TrueNAS Scale host, and pip install the python package and catt cast VIDEO than edit app change an input field to VIDEOLINK, save and wait for it to redeploy.

Am I missing something obvious here?

[D0rd]

No, I think you're right. I was looking at it myopically through my own personal use case, which is automated casting to various clients, but most users of this might want punctual casting.

For reference and again in the context of my own situation I wouldn't run it on the host tho, the way I set it up currently is that I created my own docker python image with catt and cron installed, scripts for the casts I need, and a crontable for when to run each. Fairly easy to set up and it all works within the container without adding packages or files to the host.

I just thought something similar in the catalog, with the ability to define during setup parameters like client & video link (essentially to create the scripts in my current setup) and when/how often the casting needs to happen (like the crontable in my current setup), all from the GUI might be useful to some, but tbh now that I think of it I think it's so niche that it's probably a waste of your time. Especially considering that like you said there are other quick way to get something like that going without the need of a standalone app.

Sorry for the dumb idea, ok to close this one, thanks!

[stavros-k]

Sorry for the dumb idea, ok to close this one, thanks!

Not a problem,

This setup of yours might be a good fit of our docker-compose app, which we recently added. Easier to add all those scripts/configs without the need of devs here to do anything on each change you might need ;)

[D0rd]

Oh nice, I'll look into it then, thanks!

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