PiCAST vs balena-rpiplay

PiCAST

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

balena-rpiplay

Turn a Raspberry Pi into an Airplay server using RPiPlay to enable screen mirroring on tvs, monitors and projectors. (by rahul-thakoor)

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PiCAST		balena-rpiplay
	Project
4	Mentions	10
1,745	Stars	1,391
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
about 4 years ago	Latest Commit	about 2 years ago
Shell	Language	Shell
-	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-rpiplay

Posts with mentions or reviews of balena-rpiplay. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-12.

Any way to integrate iOS screen mirroring or facetime?
1 project | /r/MagicMirror | 26 Feb 2022

I‘ve used RPiPlay as an AirPlay mirroring server. You can set it up to run at startup and only be visible during active connections. This means that everything will work just like always until someone connects using screen mirroring.
RPiPlay - wireless HDMI?
1 project | /r/RASPBERRY_PI_PROJECTS | 13 Jan 2022

You might give a try to https://github.com/FD-/RPiPlay
Can't see pulseaudio sink inputs when process is started by systemd service
1 project | /r/linux4noobs | 17 Nov 2021

Some background: I'm using a Pi Zero W Rev 1.1 hooked up to a TV over HDMI, acting as an AirPlay mirroring server (using RPiPlay). I'm running Raspbian Buster since I had problems building RPiPlay on Raspbian Bullseye. I have pulseaudio 12.2 installed, and I'm using gstreamer 1.14.4 as the audio renderer for RPiPlay.
Use Raspberry Pi as Airplay server to screen mirror on TVs, monitors, projectors
2 projects | /r/RASPBERRY_PI_PROJECTS | 12 Oct 2021

1 project | /r/raspberry_pi | 12 Oct 2021

1 project | /r/CKsTechNews | 12 Oct 2021

1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 12 Oct 2021

1 project | /r/hackernews | 12 Oct 2021

9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Oct 2021
Hacker News top posts: Oct 12, 2021
2 projects | /r/hackerdigest | 12 Oct 2021

Use Raspberry Pi as Airplay server to screen mirror on TVs, monitors, projectors\ (39 comments)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing PiCAST and balena-rpiplay you can also consider the following projects:

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

wireless-carplay-dongle-reverse-engineering - CPlay2Air / Carlinkit Wireless Apple CarPlay Dongle reverse engineering

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

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

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.

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