Ubuntu install

[muammar]

Ubuntu install

[maxdraki]

So I downloaded pychromecast 0.8 and did 'pip install -r requirements.txt' which updated a few packages and it now seems to work... :) :) (although I'm not entirely sure why!)

Thanks for the help!

[muammar]

What is your ubuntu version?. Normally doing a apt-get install mkchromecast would do the job. The problem you are getting is related to pychromecast. What is your version? Did you installed it using pip or apt?.

You can check pychromecast's version and source by doing this:

$ python                                                                                                                                            
Python 2.7.13 (default, Jan 19 2017, 14:48:08) 
[GCC 6.3.0 20170118] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pychromecast
>>> pychromecast.__version__
'0.7.6'
>>> pychromecast.__file__
'/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pychromecast/__init__.pyc'

[maxdraki]

Hi - I'm on Ubuntu 16.10
pychromecast was initially installed using dpkg..

I completely uninstalled mkchromecast and pychromecast (before I think I hadn't uninstalled pychromecast) and reinstalled from the repos and am now getting a slightly different error

$ mkchromecast
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/mkchromecast", line 8, in <module>
    from mkchromecast.cast import *
  File "/usr/share/mkchromecast/mkchromecast/cast.py", line 13, in <module>
    import pychromecast
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pychromecast/__init__.py", line 12, in <module>
    from .config import *  # noqa
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pychromecast/config.py", line 6, in <module>
    import requests
ImportError: No module named requests

running the command above I'm getting this error

$ python
Python 2.7.12+ (default, Sep 17 2016, 12:08:02) 
[GCC 6.2.0 20160914] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pychromecast
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pychromecast/__init__.py", line 12, in <module>
    from .config import *  # noqa
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pychromecast/config.py", line 6, in <module>
    import requests
ImportError: No module named requests
>>> 

[muammar]

Install python-requests: sudo apt-get install python-requests to see if later everything works ok.

[maxdraki]

python-requests is already the newest version (2.10.0-2)..

any ideas?

[muammar]

Mmm. I don't understand why it is not being found in your PYTHONPATH. What about installing it with pip?. It would be: pip install requests.

[maxdraki]

$ pip install requests
Requirement already satisfied: requests in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages

and if it's any help I think this is my pythonpath

python -c "import sys; print '\n'.join(sys.path)"

/usr/lib/python2.7
/usr/lib/python2.7/plat-x86_64-linux-gnu
/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk
/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-old
/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload
/home/max/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PILcompat
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0
/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ubuntu-sso-client
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wx-3.0-gtk2

[muammar]

I don't understand why pychromecast is not finding requests. What happens if you try to import requests from a python console?.

[maxdraki]

import requests completes fine
I now get this error

>>> import pychromecast
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pychromecast/__init__.py", line 14, in <module>
    from . import socket_client
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pychromecast/socket_client.py", line 22, in <module>
    from . import cast_channel_pb2
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pychromecast/cast_channel_pb2.py", line 23, in <module>
    serialized_pb=_b('\n\x12\x63\x61st_channel.proto\x12 extensions.core_api.cast_channel\"\xed\x02\n\x0b\x43\x61stMessage\x12W\n\x10protocol_version\x18\x01 \x02(\x0e\x32=.extensions.core_api.cast_channel.CastMessage.ProtocolVersion\x12\x11\n\tsource_id\x18\x02 \x02(\t\x12\x16\n\x0e\x64\x65stination_id\x18\x03 \x02(\t\x12\x11\n\tnamespace\x18\x04 \x02(\t\x12O\n\x0cpayload_type\x18\x05 \x02(\x0e\x32\x39.extensions.core_api.cast_channel.CastMessage.PayloadType\x12\x14\n\x0cpayload_utf8\x18\x06 \x01(\t\x12\x16\n\x0epayload_binary\x18\x07 \x01(\x0c\"!\n\x0fProtocolVersion\x12\x0e\n\nCASTV2_1_0\x10\x00\"%\n\x0bPayloadType\x12\n\n\x06STRING\x10\x00\x12\n\n\x06\x42INARY\x10\x01\"s\n\rAuthChallenge\x12\x62\n\x13signature_algorithm\x18\x01 \x01(\x0e\x32\x34.extensions.core_api.cast_channel.SignatureAlgorithm:\x0fRSASSA_PKCS1v15\"\xc8\x01\n\x0c\x41uthResponse\x12\x11\n\tsignature\x18\x01 \x02(\x0c\x12\x1f\n\x17\x63lient_auth_certificate\x18\x02 \x02(\x0c\x12 \n\x18intermediate_certificate\x18\x03 \x03(\x0c\x12\x62\n\x13signature_algorithm\x18\x04 \x01(\x0e\x32\x34.extensions.core_api.cast_channel.SignatureAlgorithm:\x0fRSASSA_PKCS1v15\"\xa8\x01\n\tAuthError\x12I\n\nerror_type\x18\x01 \x02(\x0e\x32\x35.extensions.core_api.cast_channel.AuthError.ErrorType\"P\n\tErrorType\x12\x12\n\x0eINTERNAL_ERROR\x10\x00\x12\n\n\x06NO_TLS\x10\x01\x12#\n\x1fSIGNATURE_ALGORITHM_UNAVAILABLE\x10\x02\"\xd5\x01\n\x11\x44\x65viceAuthMessage\x12\x42\n\tchallenge\x18\x01 \x01(\x0b\x32/.extensions.core_api.cast_channel.AuthChallenge\x12@\n\x08response\x18\x02 \x01(\x0b\x32..extensions.core_api.cast_channel.AuthResponse\x12:\n\x05\x65rror\x18\x03 \x01(\x0b\x32+.extensions.core_api.cast_channel.AuthError*J\n\x12SignatureAlgorithm\x12\x0f\n\x0bUNSPECIFIED\x10\x00\x12\x13\n\x0fRSASSA_PKCS1v15\x10\x01\x12\x0e\n\nRSASSA_PSS\x10\x02\x42\x02H\x03')
TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'syntax'
>>> ```
:(

[muammar]

@maxdraki maybe you can try opening an issue here -> https://github.com/balloob/pychromecast/issues. Pychromecast's developers may help you better than me to solve that problem. I haven't faced it myself :(.

[maxdraki]

Thanks Muammar - I'll have a go.. appreciate your help anyway..

I'll post back anything relevant

[muammar]

Thanks Muammar - I'll have a go.. appreciate your help anyway..

Sorry I wasn't of much help. I hope they can help you!. And thanks that would nice if you reported how you fixed the problem in this report.