Crash on play

[Tenebruspt]

Hi there

Was looking for something to output from Volumio to chromecast audio and found your project which fit the bill for exactly of what I was looking for.

I followed the installation steps but am having problems getting it to run. I can find my Chromecast Audio devices but it crashes when I start any playback. Here's the command I used:

volumio@volumio:~$ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 ~/volumio2chromecast/volumio2chromecast.py --name 'Office speaker'

and the output I get:

`
Tue Nov 26 16:47:41 2019 No active Chromecast device

Tue Nov 26 16:47:42 2019 Volumio State:
{
"updatedb": false,
"repeatSingle": false,
"disableVolumeControl": false,
"uri": "music-library/NAS/Test/01 - Warm Sound.mp3",
"album": "When It Falls",
"channels": 2,
"duration": 331,
"title": "Warm Sound",
"status": "play",
"mute": false,
"albumart": "/albumart?cacheid=948&web=Zero7/When%20It%20Falls/extralarge&pa th=%2Fmnt%2FNAS%2FTest&metadata=false",
"volatile": false,
"bitdepth": "24 bit",
"artist": "Zero7",
"stream": "mp3",
"repeat": null,
"trackType": "mp3",
"samplerate": "44.1 kHz",
"volume": 40,
"position": 0,
"random": null,
"seek": 25135,
"service": "mpd",
"consume": false
}

Tue Nov 26 16:47:42 2019 Connecting to Chromecast 192.168.1.245:8009
Tue Nov 26 16:47:42 2019 Waiting for device to get ready..
Tue Nov 26 16:47:42 2019 Connected to Living Room speaker (192.168.1.245:8009) m odel:Unknown model name
Casting URL:b'http://192.168.137.54:8000/music/NAS/Test/01 - Warm Sound.mp3' typ e:audio/mp3
Exception in thread Thread-8:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/threading.py", line 920, in _bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/threading.py", line 868, in run
self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
File "/home/volumio/volumio2chromecast/volumio2chromecast.py", line 384, in vo lumio_agent
autoplay = True)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/pychromecast/controllers/media.py ", line 546, in play_media
receiver_ctrl.launch_app(self.app_id, callback_function=app_launched_callbac k)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/pychromecast/socket_client.py", l ine 1066, in launch_app
lambda response: self._send_launch_message(
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/pychromecast/socket_client.py", l ine 1055, in update_status
{MESSAGE_TYPE: TYPE_GET_STATUS}, callback_function=callback_function_param
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/pychromecast/controllers/init .py", line 90, in send_message
self.send_message_nocheck(data, inc_session_id, callback_function)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/pychromecast/controllers/init .py", line 94, in send_message_nocheck
self._message_func(self.namespace, data, inc_session_id, callback_function)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/pychromecast/socket_client.py", l ine 834, in send_platform_message
callback_function_param,
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/pychromecast/socket_client.py", l ine 771, in send_message
self._ensure_channel_connected(destination_id)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/pychromecast/socket_client.py", l ine 883, in _ensure_channel_connected
no_add_request_id=True,
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/pychromecast/socket_client.py", l ine 822, in send_message
"Chromecast {}:{} is connecting...".format(self.host, self.port)
pychromecast.error.NotConnected: Chromecast 192.168.1.245:8009 is connecting...

Detected 1 dead threads.. exiting
/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/cherrypy/process/wspbus.py:258: RuntimeWa rning: The main thread is exiting, but the Bus is in the states.STARTED state; s hutting it down automatically now. You must either call bus.block() after start( ), or call bus.exit() before the main thread exits.
'main thread exits.' % self.state, RuntimeWarning)
`
Any help you can provide is appreciated.

Thanks

[Tenebruspt]

So I did some more testing. Part of the problem is that the current version of pychromecast is no longer compatible with python 3.4.

I tried some earlier versions and version 2.3.0 of pychromecast runs. I can hear chromecast connect and i can change volume using the volumio UI, but no song actually plays (Elapsed stays at 0:00/0:00 [00%])

Interestingly, if I cast from phone while the script is running, the elapsed counter updates accordingly, and I can pause from the Volumio interface.

It looks like everything is working except for Chromecast to actually begin playing the proper song.

[joris-77]

Same issue here... And I only installed Volumio, because is seems chromecast playback was possible... I tried upgrading to a higher version of python but that seems to bring other problems.

[dresdner353]

Hi folks,
sincere apologies.. I just saw this issue thread now, nearly a year later and I've been modifying the code all along.

You are correct, the ancient Jesse image in Volumio is the cause of the issues here.

I have it working again just recently but only on a the beta Buster images for Volumio. I tried all kinds of madness trying to recompile a later Python 3.x for the Jesse image and just kept running into issues.

I also released a variant of the same script today for moOde another player similar in concept to Volumio.