ChromeCast Support

[Schimi 26]

HI,

 

would Chromecast support be available in the Future?

 

That would be really great...

[7illusions 1249]

[Lee 210]

@@7illusions, so that's a no then?? lol

[Luke 39302]

How can he know what googles future plans are. His answer summed it up perfectly

[jsil 0]

Is this the SDK you're looking for?

 

API's:

https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/developers

 

References:

https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/reference/

[Latchmor 584]

No. It doesn't work with Microsoft products yet. That's what 7illusions means in his post above.

 

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[Trevor68 51]

So I'm guessing this never actually happened then?

 

http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/616357/Windows-10-Microsoft-Edge-Chromecast

 

Unfortunately my Fast Ring PC does not have wireless, so I can't check myself.

[heksesang 10]

It's possible to have Chromecast support on Microsoft devices. There are plenty of Windows Phone apps that support it. But you have to do a lot of coding yourself, I guess, as there is no SDK.

 

Though, Chromecast still should support the DIAL protocol? Which is supported in the UWP framework? So some of the work could already be done?

[jon_ 23]

If there's no SDK support, are there any plans to allow 'flinging' of media to another emby client?

 

ie. I load up the Windows emby App, start playing a locally synced file, and can play it on another local emby client (eg. FireTV stick?)

 

On the 'other' 4 letter media server you can enable a 'mobile server', so other plex clients on the same LAN can play back cached content from your device, or you can fling content at them. I think it's a reasonably basic web server within the app that hosts the files. 

 

It works really well for travelling when you have either no/low bandwidth and can't stream from the home server. You can plug in a fireTV stick and play back whatever you have synced locally with a nice big interface..