Web2cast

Node based command line tool to cast a webpage to a Chromecast when it's idle. This tool requires 2 things:

• catt installed and available to the user running this script
• cast-web-api installed, running and accessible

catt in turn uses the DashCast Chromecast app: http://stestagg.github.io/dashcast/

catt

Check https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt for install instructions

cast-web-api

Check https://github.com/vervallsweg/cast-web-api for install instructions

Usage

Usage: web2cast [options]

Options:
  -V, --version              output the version number
  -a, --api [string]         ip:port of the cast-web-api (default: false)
  -c, --chromecast [string]  the name of the target device (default: false)
  -u, --url [string]         the URL to cast (default: false)
  -t, --time [int]           interval in seconds to test if the Chromecast (default: 5)
  -b, --bin [string]         absolute path to catt binary (default: "catt")
  -h, --help                 output usage information

Examples

web2cast 
        --chromecast YourChromecastName 
        --url http://www.google.com 
        --time 5 
        --bin /opt/catt/catt 
        --api 127.0.0.1:3000

This example will query the cast-web-api device endpoint at http://127.0.0.1:3000 every 5 seconds to see if YourChromecastName is idle. If it is, it will cast google.com to the Chromecast called YourChromecastName using the catt binary in /opt/catt/catt.

Roadmap

• Extract what we need from the cast-web-api and use it in this package so we're not dependent on cast-web-api.
• Extract what we need from catt for casting DashCast with a specific URL and implement it into this package.