rgoovyrob wrote: > Hi, First thanks for a great plugin Philippe which I've just discovered > now I have a Google Home device and Chromecast :) > > I also use Homeseer for home automation which has a ChromeCast plugin - > this is able to view the meta data and status of each chromecast on the > network. > > When I play music from Spotify I can see in Homeseer that the > Application meta field changes to Spotify, the Status changes from Idle > to Play, and the Album and Title fields get populated. I also get the > album artwork sent (must be a URL). The same meta data is sent to the > chromecast with music playback from Amazon Music or Plex too. > > When I play from Squeezebox to the chromecast the Application meta > changes to 'Default Media Receiver' but Status remains as Idle, and no > track data is sent when the music plays. > > If I could see the status change to 'Playing' for a squeezebox stream I > would be able to trigger events in Homeseer such as powering on my > amplifier etc when playback starts, but without this data I cant :( > > Is it possible to send the track and playback status from the LMS to the > chromecast? Could the application name be changed to something more > meaningful too? > > Many thanks in advance, > > Rob.
If you've enabled sending Metadata in the plugin settings, you should see them (you can verify that with Google Home on your smartphone). Not that, at least in my iOS version, the artwork is not displayed there but you can blame Google on this one as they are not able to grab an image if the URL contains a port, and this is the case for everything coming from LMS LMS 7.7, 7.8 and 7.9 - 5xRadio, 3xBoom, 4xDuet, 1xTouch, 1 SB2. Sonos PLAY:3, PLAY:5, Marantz NR1603, JBL OnBeat, XBoxOne, XBMC, Foobar2000, ShairPortW, JRiver 21, 2xChromecast Audio, Chromecast v1 and v2, , Pi B3, B2, Pi B+, 2xPi A+, Odroid-C1, Odroid-C2, Cubie2, Yamaha WX-010, AppleTV 4, Airport Express, GGMM E5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philippe_44's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104614 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
