Announce: CastBridge = integrate Chromecast players with LMS (squeeze2cast)

[CommanderROR]

It supports 24/96, perhaps even 24/192 (not verified).
Currently there is a bug that causes everything to resample to 16/48 (when using Optical Out), but that will be resolved in the next few weeks according to Google.

[CommanderROR]

@usc95

How did you turn your FireTVs off in LMS? I'm trying to do the same, but have failed to find a suitable option...

[kidstypike]

Before I invest in a CCA does it support 24bit/96 and/or 24/192 FLAC ?

http://www.slashgear.com/chromecast-...view-22411076/

£25.00 at Currys offer until Monday: ~http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/tv-and-...0151113193931:

[philippe_44]

OK, some progress here:

I pulled the plug from my FireTV, and then the ChromeCast devices showed up as players. Apparently the bridge tries to use FireTV as a CC, fails and then crashes.
Despite that success (workaround for now, will need to find a way to make the Plugin ignore my FireTV) I could not get the CCA to play. It starts and then immediately stops again.

I then used TuneIn on my Phone to Cast to the CCA in the dining room, which worked perfectly. When I tried to connect with LMS again it failed to show the CCA devices completely. It scans for them, but comes up empty. Will keep trying!

Normally, you should be able to uncheck the FireTV in the setting page and it then will be ignored by the plugin

[philippe_44]

Could any of you, using the DeviceSpy tool http://opentools.homeip.net/dev-tools-for-upnp, send a few screenshot on how these other devices look ? I will simply ne more selective on search criteria

[kidstypike]

Can't get CastBridge running on my Raspberry Pi 2 model B LMS, cannot get past the picture below. I believe processor is ARM710, although squeeze2upnp seems to run OK.

Server log:

[15-11-13 20:26:17.0859] Plugins::CastBridge::Squeeze2cast::configHandler (251) /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/prefs/castbridge.xml
[15-11-13 20:26:35.1019] Plugins::CastBridge::Squeeze2cast::start (121) executable not having 'x' permission, correcting
[15-11-13 20:26:35.1052] Plugins::CastBridge::Squeeze2cast::start (127) squeeze2cast-armv6hf not found
[15-11-13 20:26:35.1079] Plugins::CastBridge::Squeeze2cast::start (121) executable not having 'x' permission, correcting
[15-11-13 20:26:35.1111] Plugins::CastBridge::Squeeze2cast::start (127) squeeze2cast-armv6hf not found

[bpa]

Could any of you, using the DeviceSpy tool http://opentools.homeip.net/dev-tools-for-upnp, send a few screenshot on how these other devices look ? I will simply ne more selective on search criteria

Do you plan to use mDNS to discover devices in the future as Google said uPNP discovery will be going away ?

[philippe_44]

I've pushed a dev-3 which is more restrictive in term of device discovery (trying to limit that to only Chromecast devices)

[philippe_44]

Do you plan to use mDNS to discover devices in the future as Google said uPNP discovery will be going away ?

I will try, but this is yet another piece of code to understand and integrate where UPnP discovery was already build-in with my application and it came with a good amount of code I wrote previously

[philippe_44]

Can't get CastBridge running on my Raspberry Pi 2 model B LMS, cannot get past the picture below. I believe processor is ARM710, although squeeze2upnp seems to run OK.

Server log:

[15-11-13 20:26:17.0859] Plugins::CastBridge::Squeeze2cast::configHandler (251) /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/prefs/castbridge.xml
[15-11-13 20:26:35.1019] Plugins::CastBridge::Squeeze2cast::start (121) executable not having 'x' permission, correcting
[15-11-13 20:26:35.1052] Plugins::CastBridge::Squeeze2cast::start (127) squeeze2cast-armv6hf not found
[15-11-13 20:26:35.1079] Plugins::CastBridge::Squeeze2cast::start (121) executable not having 'x' permission, correcting
[15-11-13 20:26:35.1111] Plugins::CastBridge::Squeeze2cast::start (127) squeeze2cast-armv6hf not found

what do you have on /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/InstalledPlugins/plugins/CastBridge/Bin ? I tried the full install on my cubieboard and it worked, sucessfully changed the access right of the armv6hf version and ran