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Please clarify for me. If I run $ npm install forever -g that means I do not have to re-run the cast-web-api command when windows restarts right?

If not, do you know how I can turn the CMD into a batch where it changes directories, and then runs the cast-web-api. the following isnt working.

@echo off

start cmd.exe

cd C:\Users\Bboy\Desktop\cast-web-api-master\cast-web-api-master

cast-web-api

Hi,

First of all I'd like to say Thank You for the Cast Web API! That's so Awesome to have it!
I'd like to share what I've faced up for the last time, to improve it.
Something strange happens, I can't set volume to the Cast Group anymore. Im pretty sure that it worked before. Even when I want to Speak Text from WebCore to be announced with Group, it doesn't work.

Best Regards,
Alex

When I'm trying to use the /setMediaPlayback i get error 500 and on the server I get Exception caught: TypeError: Cannot read property 'playerState' of undefined.
I can hear my chromecast trying to connect and can see the stream image for a second before it seems to disconnect from the chromecast device (chromecast audio)

Add support for open source YouTube Cast receiver.

For example this one https://github.com/irfanhabib/youtube-castv2-client

Right now data is returned after a predefined amount of time. The answer probably arrived way earlier already.
Data should be returned as soon as it becomes available.

Currently requestIds are hardcoded and range from 1-3.

For proper identification unique requestIds should be generated and all request use one of them.

Restart the API x amount of times automatically.

I'm using your project to cast home automation notifications through SmartThings; which work brilliantly.

However, I can't seem to adjust the TTS to something I want. The standard is not quite the right voice for a UK english person and the Google TTS option with the correct language is just too slow to sound correct.

Is there a way to increase the Google TTS speed? I am using the functions through webCoRE like:
Speak text..., Speak... etc. But there is no setting there for TTS speed, nor is there in the settings of the individual cast devices added by Cast-Web.

It'd be really helpful if you could provide a single line command to test some of these commands out.

I'm currently trying

curl http://10.0.0.139:3000/setMediaPlayback\?address\=10.0.0.126\&mediaType\=audio/mp3\&mediaUrl\=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdownload%2Ftestmp3testfile%2Fmpthreetest.mp3\&mediaStreamType\=BUFFERED\&mediaTitle\=test\&mediaSubtitle\=test\&mediaImageURL\=https%3A%2F%2Fi.vimeocdn.com%2Fportrait%2F58832_300x300

and having no luck, I'll go dig through the source code to figure out what I'm doing wrong but as both the app and the docs don't give you a good indication of what these values should be I'm not sure, I was able to get the get commands working fine :)

EDIT: it should have been Url not URL.

curl --globoff  "http://10.0.0.139:3000/setMediaPlayback?address=10.0.0.126&mediaType=audio/mp3&mediaUrl=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdownload%2Ftestmp3testfile%2Fmpthreetest.mp3&mediaStreamType=BUFFERED&mediaTitle=test&mediaSubtitle=test&mediaImageUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.vimeocdn.com%2Fportrait%2F58832_300x300"

Start the API as a daemon, detached from the terminal. Makes installation easier and fixes forevers windows problems from #61.

Certain receiver applications support skipping media forward/backward
https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/reference/messages#MediaStatus

Using the latest version from Github (cast-web-api version 0.2.2), Google Home, Google Home Mini, NVIDIA Shield and a Cast Group all show up correctly, while my Sony Soundbar HT-NT5 shows up but doesn't have a deviceFriendlyName

I'm trying to get this to work on my synology. I tried installing it inside a docker container but it does not work

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Is there a docker container out there that i can use? if not, what am i doing wrong?

Thanks!

For better client side ID, return the whole device response.

Hello, I'm trying to add devices with your ST app. I've installed the node.js setup exactly as directions (I'm seeing activity logged on the screen). After I enter the IP address with the port number, I hit test and I get a 200 response, which is good. The problem starts when I select the actual device after discovery and try to add it. When I get to this screen, everything is normal on the app:

The problem starts after I hit Next. I get a blank screen and if I try hitting save, I get a "Error-bad state. Unable to complete page configuration".

Any idea what I can do to correct this?

Not all devices show up on /getDevices, even with huge timeout (>10s). Worked more reliably with old mdns package than with mdns-js.

Why is that? Timeout still to small, mdns-js bug, or just used incorrectly?

#49 will be added in v0.3 as an experimental feature, until someone who uses docker can confirm it works.

Let the user specify whether he wants a confirmation of the media loaded successfully.

If I try to use localhost or 127.0.0.1 i get a

"Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND localhost locahost:3000 : http://localhost:3000/device"
statusCode: "ENOTFOUND"

if I use the actual IP address it works just fine.

Great addition to the feature-set! I love the TTS feature with all the languages and accents.

However, the 200 character limit is problematic. When it goes over, it doesn't play anything at all.
I suggest that if it gets over 200 characters, that defaults to the usual-non-Google-TTS behaviour to preserve existing functionality.

Problem case:

I have a script that reads the weather in the morning along with some random text to my Google home mini speaker. When enabling the Google TTS feature on that speaker, I now get nothing if the random text + weather combination happens to be over 200 characters.

For more reliable discovery.

Right now the API returns data only if it matches the requested type (MEDIA, DEVICE_STATUS).

However the requestId from the response should match the requestId of the request.

Hi,
i succeded to discover my GH and to modifiy volume and pause/play with your cast-web -api . That 's great ! Thanks
but i would like to text-to-speech with a simple curl command and it fails .... :-) .
I tried ( follwing the doc)
curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '[{ {"mediaTitle":"my text","mediaSubtitle": "mytitle "}]' http://{myIPaddress}/device/{MyGHid}/playMedia/
but i go error back : error {}
it seems i need to also set googleTTS':'language-code in the JSON array?
Some example please , is it possible ? it would be very helpful
BR
phil

Anything is better than the current mdns dependency situation. Seriously. At the time I started this project i couldn't find any pure js implementation of mdns. Turns out there is one and it looks promising.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/mdns-js

When trying to connect through browser URL, or through the "Cast web" Smartthings App. I see the command '/getDevices' being logged in the console while castWebApi.js is running, but the service is returning a 500 error to the browser or app.

Google cast groups are currently treated the same way as standard cast devices.
To make client side ID easier it should differentiate between Cast devices and audio groups on discovery.
Audio groups are also slower to update their playback state, since the master has to communicate that to other group members. If you call setMediaPlaybackPlay/Pause now on a audio group, it'll return its current state (old state), not wait for the new playback state.

Without --hostname specified, API should default to device ip, not localhost.

Here is a stack trace from the console. I don't know what else was happening at the time because I don't think this crash occurred from an action from SmartThings.

I didn't look to see what is going on here but it appears that some string was maybe some string manipulation is going on and something before the substring that was supposed to yield "_tcp" ended up only getting "_tc"

Seems sort of weird though. Maybe something else is going on. Any way, I'll leave it here.

`C:\Users\SomeUser\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cast-web-api\node_modules\mdns-js\lib\service_type.js:255
throw new Error('protocol must be either "_tcp" or "_udp" but is "' +
^

Error: protocol must be either "_tcp" or "_udp" but is "_tc"
at checkProtocolU (C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cast-web-api\node_modules\mdns-js\lib\service_type.js:255:11)
at exports.ServiceType.fromString (C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cast-web-api\node_modules\mdns-js\lib\service_type.js:116:3)
at new exports.ServiceType (C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cast-web-api\node_modules\mdns-js\lib\service_type.js:31:14)
at C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cast-web-api\node_modules\mdns-js\lib\decoder.js:40:27
at C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cast-web-api\node_modules\dns-js\lib\dnspacket.js:223:7
at Array.forEach ()
at module.exports.each (C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cast-web-api\node_modules\dns-js\lib\dnspacket.js:221:17)
at module.exports.decodeSection (C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cast-web-api\node_modules\mdns-js\lib\decoder.js:26:10)
at C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cast-web-api\node_modules\mdns-js\lib\decoder.js:111:5
at Array.forEach ()`

1. Also return the device's friendly name
2. Make the JSON array associative, every device should have a description of it's value; ip:ip, port:port, name:name (...), not just 1:ip, 2:port, ...

Hi there,

I've already got the api set up and working with smartthings, but would like to use a bash script on my home server to trigger some TTS alerts without involving smartthings, could anyone give me an example hello world script I can make use of please?

I've tried, but am struggling with the documentation.

Thanks in advance!

Adam

Use command line arguments to define basic parameters.

Just wondered, as everyone probably is, if the Broadcast from message at the begin of broadcasts now is configurable or not? Also, how would I remove my existing Google authorization so that I can use a different account? I tried just inputting another one but it didn't seem to work. it "took" but it still broadcast with the name of the old account.

The newly added google assistant package requires one dependency to be compiled through node-gyp. This seems to be an issue when installing the package globally.

(sudo) npm install cast-web-api@beta -g

If you're running an older version of node-gyp it'll just loop with the message:

"root" does not have permission to access the dev dir

There's no difference if you're using sudo, open a root shell or try to install as standard user. The proposed fix in the node-gyp issue is to either set the --unsafe-perm flag or not install anything globally.

I believe neither solution is acceptable.

For now I marked the google-assistant package in the v1.1.0 branch as optional. This is pretty much the only reason why v1.1.0 is not released yet. I'm not an npm expert and have no idea what the best solution is here. Maybe @kevireilly can help out, would be much appreciated.

Create package.json to become a 'proper' npm package.

Inform the user of new updates, and the version he is currently running.

in url "comfig" should be "config" 2 times.

From the Readme:

Usage
http://{hostname}/comfig?get={parameter}
http://{hostname}/comfig?set={parameter}&value={value}

Typo in the new implementation of castv2-client. Tries to instantiate wrong external library.

You can set server configuration values by using 'setConfig?param=value'. There should be a corresponding 'getConfig?param' returning the current configuration value.

Example: /setMediaPlayback?params=null will throw exceptions and crash the whole API.

It seems to confuse some users that the response on / is 404.

castv2-client missing #40

The HTTP status codes should match the functions response, e.g.:

• 200 on success
• 400 on wrong parameters
• 500 if the network response is not as expected

The volume set through cast-web-api or returned on the device status through cast-web-api do NOT match the volume the device says when you verbally ask it the volume or set it verbally.

For example- I use the API to set it to 50 and then say "OK Google! What is the current volume?" it returns "The volume is currently set to 55%". And it does not scale linearly either.

1 returns 1
5=5
6=7
10=11
20=22
40=44
60=66
80=88
81=89
82=90
83=91
84=92
85=94
86=95
87=96
88=97
89=98
90=99
91=100

Impossible to run after clean install with npm install cast-web-api.

In order to use npm run cast-web-api package.json needs scripts array. Installation instructions in documentation should reflect that change.

Investigate the lowest possible node.js version and the lowest version of all dependent packages. Update package.json accordingly.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/debug

Output debug info only when asked for it to the console.