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leapcast
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Show HN: Ytcast – cast YouTube videos to your smart TV from command-line
Chromecast is completely closed-source, I'd argue against buying into that ecosystem.
Nymphcast [1] is an alternative, but wouldn't be compatible with existing clients, since the protocol is different.
Miraclecast [2] is an implementation of miracast/wi-fi display that runs on Linux. There is also a myriad of alternatives: vnc, raspicast, etc.
Leapcast [3] used to be an implementation of what you want (while using chrome as a black box).
There are some implementations of airplay.
[1]: http://nyanko.ws/product_nymphcast.php
[2]: https://github.com/albfan/miraclecast
[3]: https://github.com/dz0ny/leapcast
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Question on building a powered speaker to stream audio from google home
Running your own Google Cast receiver was blocked years ago: https://github.com/dz0ny/leapcast
snapdroid
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Chromecast Audio for Sale at Walmart! $48
It's all done with Mopidy + Snapcast. Mopidy has various frontends, but the Iris web frontend supports Snapcast and can be controlled from any web-capable device; it can be used to assign/change device groups, assign certain streams to certain groups (you can have multiple sources playing on multiple devices/groups and control them from there), etc. I also used the Snapdroid app, which will allow you to adjust things like latency, individual device volumes and stream volumes, etc on your phone or tablet. Beyond that, you can integrate Home Assistant and pretty much get it to act however you want, including being fully controlled via voice on both Google and Amazon (and ultimately Cortana, ick) platforms. Of course that takes some setting up that some wouldn't consider "easy", so YMMV.
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Smart Audio for the Smart Home
* Server running mopidy [1] with all your audio loaded up on it and connected to Spotify.
* Install the Iris plugin for UI [2] on server
* Install snapcast [3] server on the audio server and snapcast client on raspberry pi's near all stereos you want to pipe audio into
* Put bookmarks to the Iris page on all family member's phone home screens.
* Add the snapdroid app [4] to each phone so people can adjust volume of each stereo and also play audio on their phone (or anything it's bluetoothed into)
[1] https://mopidy.com/
[2] https://mopidy.com/ext/iris/
[3] https://github.com/badaix/snapcast
[4] https://github.com/badaix/snapdroid
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Question on building a powered speaker to stream audio from google home
The Snapdroid app for Android is pretty basic. AFAIK there still isn't a UI for iOS.
What are some alternatives?
miraclecast - Connect external monitors to your system via Wifi-Display specification also known as Miracast
RPi-Jukebox-RFID - A Raspberry Pi jukebox, playing local music, podcasts, web radio and streams triggered by RFID cards, web app or home automation. All plug and play via USB. GPIO scripts available.