PiCAST vs RaspberryCast

PiCAST

PiCAST turns your $35 Raspberry Pi in to a Chromecast like Device. (by lanceseidman)

RaspberryCast

:tv: Transform your Raspberry Pi into a streaming device. Videos can be sent from mobile devices or computers (Chrome extension). (by vincelwt)

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PiCAST		RaspberryCast
	Project
4	Mentions	2
1,745	Stars	839
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	10.0
about 4 years ago	Latest Commit	over 3 years ago
Shell	Language	JavaScript
-	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

PiCAST

Posts with mentions or reviews of PiCAST. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-29.

Casting YouTube to RP?
5 projects | /r/raspberry_pi | 29 Jun 2022

I'm trying to cast any video from YouTube to a RP4 using the Chromecast (DIAL?) protocol. How do you do this? So far I've tried PiYouTube, RaspberryCast, PiCAST, PYCASTER, and NymphCast. All unsuccessfully.
Cast video + music to Raspberry Pi?
5 projects | /r/raspberry_pi | 28 Jun 2022
Use Raspberry Pi as Airplay server to screen mirror on TVs, monitors, projectors
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Oct 2021
Questioning the benefits of partial deGoogling
2 projects | /r/degoogle | 9 Apr 2021

There are also alternatives to Chromecast too, such as PiCast and AllCast.

RaspberryCast

Posts with mentions or reviews of RaspberryCast. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-29.

Casting YouTube to RP?
5 projects | /r/raspberry_pi | 29 Jun 2022

I'm trying to cast any video from YouTube to a RP4 using the Chromecast (DIAL?) protocol. How do you do this? So far I've tried PiYouTube, RaspberryCast, PiCAST, PYCASTER, and NymphCast. All unsuccessfully.
Cast video + music to Raspberry Pi?
5 projects | /r/raspberry_pi | 28 Jun 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing PiCAST and RaspberryCast you can also consider the following projects:

balena-rpiplay - Turn a Raspberry Pi into an Airplay server using RPiPlay to enable screen mirroring on tvs, monitors and projectors.

PiYouTube - DIAL YouTube player ( acts as a smart TV on your network ). Intended for Raspberry Pi, but can be run on any device.

docker-cups-airprint - A standalone CUPS and Avahi (mDNS/Bonjour) server, exposing local printers on AirPrint for iOS devices

NymphCast - Audio and video casting system with support for custom applications.

addon-aircast - AirCast - Home Assistant Community Add-ons

PYCASTER - PYCASTER lets you cast and stream videos froms various websites. Chromecast-like.

balena-sound - Build a single or multi-room streamer for an existing audio device using a Raspberry Pi! Supports Bluetooth, Airplay and Spotify Connect

syncthing-android - Wrapper of syncthing for Android.

RPiPlay - An open-source AirPlay mirroring server for the Raspberry Pi. Supports iOS 9 and up.

balenaPrint - Managed CUPS on Raspberry Pi devices, running balenaOS

balena-dash - Build a Raspberry Pi based desktop dashboard for stats, photos, videos and more!