castbot 1.4.0

A Telegram Bot to stream contents (Telegram videos, Youtube videos and more) to your smart TV

CastBot

A Telegram Bot to stream contents (Telegram videos, Youtube videos and more) to your smart TV

Demonstration video

Feature

• Stream Telegram videos to any device that supports UPnP (AVTransport), Chromecast, Vlc (telnet api), Kodi (xbmc http api)
• Web interface that plays videos in your browser
• Download videos by URLs and stream to devices

Known issues

• Chromecast (1st, 2nd and 3rd Gen.) only supports H.264 and VP8 video codecs
• Most LG TVs with WebOS have an incorrect UPnP implementation

How-to setup (Release from pypi)

Make sure you have an updated version of python, only the latest version will be supported

• Install Poetry if it's not installed yet
• Clone the repository
• Install python dependencies
• Copy config.ini.example to config.ini
• Edit config.ini
• Start from python entrypoint

# install poetry
curl -sSL https://install.python-poetry.org | python3 -

git clone https://github.com/zhongkechen/castbot
cd castbot
poetry install
cp config.toml.example config.toml
nano config.toml
poetry run castbot -c config.toml -v 1

How-to setup (Docker)

• Copy config.ini.example to config.ini
• Edit config.ini
• Build Docker image
• Start Docker container

cp config.toml.example config.toml
nano config.toml
docker image build -t castbot:latest .
docker run --network host -v "$(pwd)/config.toml:/app/config.toml:ro" -d castbot:latest

FAQ

Q: How do I use the web interface?

A: Set enabled to 1 in web_ui config block, and change the password

• open http://listen_ip:listen_port/static/index.html

• now if you send a video in the bot on telegram you can choose to play it in the browser

Q: My Firewall block upnp and broadcasting, how can use kodi without it

A: Set xbmc_enabled to 1 and add your kodi device to xbmc_devices list

Q: What is the format of xbmc_devices

A: A List of Python Dict with host, port, (and optional: username and password)

example: [{"host": "192.168.1.2", "port": 8080, "username": "pippo", "password": "pluto"}]

Q: How-To control vlc from this bot

A: set vlc_enabled to 1 and add your vlc device to vlc_devices list

Q: What is the format of vlc_devices

A: A List of Python Dict with host, port, (and optional: password)

example: [{"host": "127.0.0.1", "port": 4212, "password": "123"}]

Q: How-To enable upnp on my device that use kodi

A: follow this guide (you should enable remote control)

Q: How do I get a token?

A: From @BotFather

Q: How do I set up admins?

A: You have to enter your user_id, there are many ways to get it, the easiest is to use @getuseridbot

Q: How do I get an app_id and app_hash?

A: https://core.telegram.org/api/obtaining_api_id#obtaining-api-id

Q: The video keeps freezing

A: Check the video bitrate, this bot supports maximum ~4.5Mb/s