tcagle53 wrote: > I've been using LMS with an aging linux i386 32bit system successfully > for three years or so but recently the roku (mainsqueeze) client I was > using became unstable and won't load playlists anymore (crashes). I saw > this plugin today and became excited about using this as a replacement > to integrate to my stereo system since I already have a chromecast > (original model). I could not get a peep out of the autodiscovery of the > devices and finally resorted to manually populating the castbridge.xml > device node. This resulted in a visible device in the chromecast bridge > settings page at the bottom (finally). But activation with the checkbox > seems to not provide any love with the LMS main page having a visible > virtual device (I assume that it would show up there not sure tho). > Anyone know of a more friendly description of how to proceed? > > I am not even sure at this point that the plugin works with the first > generation chromecast.... does it perhaps require the new audio > chromecast device? > > Also I am probably showing my ignorance but when they refer to a > renderer in the "User Guide" is that shorthand for the linkage that is > provide to LMS web based virtual player? > > Is it possible that this could be as simple as opening a port on my LMS > server? > > Thanks for any help or insight anyone can provide with this.
The chromecast should appear as a player in LMS - top right dropdown on the right-hand pane in the LMS gui. The original chromecast works fine (via hdmi) Touch - Muse M50 EX TPA3123 T-Amp Mini - Acoustics Q10 speakers Logitech Radio Logitech UE Radio O2 Joggler + SqpOS + Aune X2 T-amp + Mordaunt Short ms-3.40 speakers UPnPBridge - 2 paired Sonos Play1 speakers UPnPBridge - Rocki - Sony SRS-BTM8 speaker UPnPBridge - Pioneer WX-SMA1 speaker UPnPBridge - PURE One Flow internet radio Castbridge - Chromecast SB Player - Fire TV ------------------------------------------------------------------------ castalla's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15624 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104614 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
