platypush VS raspberry-pi-home-automation

Is your HN profile still accurate? Why does the https://platypush.tech/ homepage have the Gmail, YouTube, TensorFlow, and Chromecast logos on it? Weird you're giving free advertising to a company you clearly dislike so much.

Also, as I pointed out on a linked Github issue, maybe it's worth having a server-side (optional) logic for Chromecast detection? I have implemented this mechanism myself in Platypush, and I find it much more stable than relying on the client to detect the devices. Basically, Jellyfin would use some server-side CC library (like pychromecast for Python) to scan the devices on the same network over Avahi/Bonjour/mDNS. It would then push those results to the client (or maybe merge the list with the client's results), and then just proxy the client's stream/control requests to the cast device.

I have done this, and wrote a book about it: https://koen.vervloesem.eu/books/control-your-home-with-raspberry-pi/.

I'm managing all these services with Docker Compose. This means I only have to backup one directory with the configuration and data of all services, and one file, the docker-compose.yml file that defines all services. You can find all source code of the book in its repository (https://github.com/koenvervloesem/raspberry-pi-home-automation), to give you an idea about how you would manage this.