PiCAST vs addon-aircast

PiCAST

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

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addon-aircast

AirCast - Home Assistant Community Add-ons (by hassio-addons)

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PiCAST		addon-aircast
	Project
4	Mentions	3
1,745	Stars	291
-	Growth	2.4%
0.0	Activity	6.7
about 4 years ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
Shell	Language	Jinja
-	License	MIT License

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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.

addon-aircast

Posts with mentions or reviews of addon-aircast. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-23.

Cast sound from obscure ios apps to chromecast with google tv?
2 projects | /r/Chromecast | 23 Jul 2022
Use Raspberry Pi as Airplay server to screen mirror on TVs, monitors, projectors
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Oct 2021

Related: If you use Home Assistant and have Chromecast devices, the AirCast addon will allow you to use AirPlay to send something to a Chromecast device.
https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-aircast
Stream Audio From Mobile To Google Home Mini
1 project | /r/homeassistant | 30 Dec 2020

We use this - https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-aircast - to use airplay to cast from our iPhones to our Nest Mini. Works great!

What are some alternatives?

When comparing PiCAST and addon-aircast 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.

AirConnect - Use AirPlay to stream to UPnP/Sonos & Chromecast devices

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

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

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

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

addon-portainer - Portainer - Home Assistant Community Add-ons

syncthing-android - Wrapper of syncthing for Android.

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