Cast videos to chromecast devices from the terminal.
$ pip install aiocast
$ aiocast play video.mp4
$ aiocast list-devices
$ aiocast device-info "Home"
$ aiocast play --help ✔ 19:31
usage: aiocast play [-h] [-d DEVICE_NAME] [-p PORT] [-t TIMEOUT] [-i IDLE]
[--local-ip LOCAL_IP] [--mimetype MIMETYPE]
media
Cast a video
positional arguments:
media Path to the video to cast.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-d DEVICE_NAME, --device-name DEVICE_NAME
The target cast device name (default: None)
-p PORT, --port PORT Port of the local cast server (default: None)
-t TIMEOUT, --timeout TIMEOUT
Timeout after which the program will close if stuck on
buffering. (default: 60)
-i IDLE, --idle IDLE Time to stay idle after a stop or media ends (default:
2.5)
--local-ip LOCAL_IP Local ip to use, otherwise get the first private ip
available. (default: None)
--mimetype MIMETYPE Set the mimetype of the media, otherwise will guess.
(default: None)