autoCaster

Super lazy way to cast something to a Chromecast at a specified time interval.

Installation

1. Run npm install
2. Modify the mdna source as outlined in the linked mdns source articles
3. Use the autoCast.service file to set this up as a long running process

Configuration

{
  "device_name": "SomeCast", // target device to send media to 
  
  "start_time_schedule" : "at 8:00 am every weekday", // when the media should be played
  "end_time_schedule"	: "at 6:00 pm every weekday", // when the media should stop being played
  
  // This is from the chromecast spec. I'm casting MPR, but change this to whatever
  "media": {
    "contentId": "http://nis.stream.publicradio.org/nis.mp3",
    "contentType": "video/mp4",
    "streamType": "BUFFERED",
    "metadata": {
      "type": 3,
      "metadataType": 0,
      "title": "MPR"
    }
  }
}

Issues with mdns

• agnat/node_mdns#130
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29589543/raspberry-pi-mdns-getaddrinfo-3008-error

TODO

• correctly configure mdns instead of the in source modification
• For some reason if both jobs run at the same time, only one succeeds
• Reformat
• Test