Stremio Cast

Abstract protocol over HTTP for communicating with a media player

Use cases:

• Casting / remote control (Chromecast-style) to a DIY media center
• Unified interface to different casting protocols (Chromecast, DLNA, Airplay)
• Simple, easy to understand and implement alternative to complex protocols like castv2 or DLNA

Properties

These properties are used to describe player state, which goes two ways - a POST to the stremiocast endpoint can set any of these properties, and a GET on the endpoint would return a full description of the player state using those properties

• source - read/write - url to media source; set this to begin playback
• volume - read/write - player volume, from 0 to 1
• time - read/write - current player time; use this to seek
• paused - read/write - whether the playback is paused
• state - read - current player state; 0 - idle, 1 - opening, 2 - buffering, 3 - playing, 4 - paused, 5 - stopped, 6 - ended, 7 - error
• length - read - time length of current media

Functions

• play(source) - start playback
• stop() - stop playback
• update(cb) - re-fetch status from casting device

DISCLAIMER This does not pretend to be an alternative of existing protocols, such as DLNA and castv2. It's merely something similar designed with extreme simplicity in mind over HTTP and JSON.