PiCAST vs balena-dash

PiCAST

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

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balena-dash

Build a Raspberry Pi based desktop dashboard for stats, photos, videos and more! (by balena-labs-projects)

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PiCAST		balena-dash
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4	Mentions	2
1,745	Stars	430
-	Growth	0.0%
0.0	Activity	0.0
about 4 years ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
Shell	Language	Shell
-	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.

balena-dash

Posts with mentions or reviews of balena-dash. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-11.

Use Raspberry Pi as Airplay server to screen mirror on TVs, monitors, projectors
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Oct 2021

If you want something that is more of a static kiosk setup, there is a different Balena supported project that supports more of this style use case. Without the need of casting or connecting with Airplay
https://github.com/balenalabs/balena-dash
PiHole is on the etcher flashing screen!
3 projects | /r/pihole | 25 Jan 2021

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What are some alternatives?

When comparing PiCAST and balena-dash 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.

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

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

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

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

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

RetroPie-Setup - Shell script to set up a Raspberry Pi/Odroid/PC with RetroArch emulator and various cores

LedFxDocker - A Docker Container for LedFx.

syncthing-android - Wrapper of syncthing for Android.

balena-minecraft-server - Build a Minecraft Server using a Raspberry Pi 4! Supports common Servers, SCP, RCON and Wifi Connect.