next-marianmoldovan/cast-api

Cast API. A service to detect and send content to Chromecast devices

Install

npm install

Usage

• Start the server node index.js
• Get available devices: curl localhost:3000/screens. You should get a response like:

[
    {
        "host": "59d44c16-d6a2-137c-50d0-1a31dd735201.local",
        "port": 8009,
        "address": "192.168.52.50",
        "name": "Showroom.1"
    }
]

• Send content to the devices. Right now we support the content types: image,video,youtube and web. And the request is a POST to curl localhost:3000/content with the following JSON format:

{
	"screen": "labs.2",
	"type":"youtube",
	"content":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZEmbbQJgtk"
}

Screen is the name of the Chromecast (which you can get to know with the other endpoint). Type is one of the available content types: image,video,youtube and web and content makes for the URL of the video/image/whatever.

Deploy to RaspberryPi

We use a RaspberryPi 3 + Resin.io to deploy the service and have it constantly running. The resin.io service provides an external IP through a Ngrok tunnel. So you can access the API from everywhere. We provide the necessary Dockerfile in the folder.

cast-api's Issues

Improve controller logic

The project needs a refactoring in order to be a proper REST API and return an error when something fails instead of returning always OK 200.