OK, got a regular (HDMI dongle) Chromecast and hooked it up to my Synology NAS. Installed the plugin on LMS and it works great - I can stream my music to the Chromecast and it essentially functions like a Squeezebox Receiver would. Even many streaming Tunein stations will work (but not all). And I get album art onscreen and track info, which is great. Fantastic work!
I have an AV receiver/amp with HDMI inputs so I plug the Chromecast directly into one to get full digital audio on the amp. However - if I turn my TV screen off/into standby then the music cuts out. If the screen is in standby in the first place then it will be kicked into on mode before the music plays. If it's actually properly off, then the music won't play at all. Basically, in order for me to hear music from my Chromecast plugged into my amp's HDMI input, the TV must be on which isn't ideal. I see from the Google Chromecast app on my phone that when playing music via the plugin, it's using the 'Default Media Receiver' app on the Chromecast side so I guess that this behaviour is as a result of the way that system default media receiver app works. I know that other apps such as TuneIn and Bubble upnp (with their own receiver apps on the Chromecast side) will actually play without the TV being on so it certainly should be possible to get sound over HDMI without picture - is it possible to set the default receiver to do that too via a config option? Obviously with a Chromecast Audio this is going to be a non-issue but it'd be great to use the regular Chromecasts with HDMI output too, for those with HDMI amps. But aside from those niggles (related to the Default Media Receiver, not your plugin), thanks for a great add-on. It really keeps the Squeezebox/LMS ecosystem alive and gives people a chance to transition their hardware to something that will actually have streaming support into the foreseeable future. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ slimfast's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=29669 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104383 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
