nima-cast 0.1.12

This is a project that could connect to a minio server and sream the conents on a chromecast device.

nima_cast CLI

Usage

$ nima_cast
Welcome! Type ? to list commands. options: --no-minio and --show-debug

(nima.cast) select
INFO:pychromecast:Querying device status
INFO:pychromecast:Querying device status
[0] - Bedroom speaker
[1] - Living Room TV
Please choose an index: 1

(nima.cast) list
[ 0]-   example_video.mp4

(nima.cast) play 0
INFO:pychromecast.controllers:Receiver:Launching app CC1AD845

(nima.cast) pause

(nima.cast) goto 0:10:0

(nima.cast) pause

(nima.cast) stop

(nima.cast) quit
INFO:pychromecast:Quiting current app
INFO:pychromecast.controllers:Receiver:Stopping current app 'CC1AD845'

(nima.cast) exit

Commands

You can get a list of commands by enterring ?:

(nima.cast) ?

Documented commands (type help <topic>):
========================================
EOF     exit  help  play  search  select  stream
device  goto  list  quit  seek    stop

Undocumented commands:
======================
pause  resume

Look at the documentation for each of them by entering help CMD:

(nima.cast) help play
play [num] starts playing the file specified by the number in results of list

Installation

Install using pip:

$ pip install nima_cast

Upgrading:

pip install nima_cast --upgrade

Minio Configuration

On windows:

set ACCESS_KEY=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
set SECRET_KEY=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
set MINIO_SERVER=YOUR_MINIO_SERVER:9000

On ubuntu:

export ACCESS_KEY=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
export SECRET_KEY=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
export MINIO_SERVER=YOUR_MINIO_SERVER:9000

Running the app

$ nima_cast

Options

• use --no-minio for streaming purposes (no need to connect to minio).

• use --show-debug to see debug messages from the cast.