I'd like to hook up a bttn such that when that button is pressed, a specific song is played through my speakers using the new Chromecast Audio. I couldn't find documentation for a REST API that would allow me to accomplish this.
Is there any direct hookup that would be possible such that I can call some REST API to play audio through Cast Audio?
There is no single rest apis to do so; the process of casting a media, using the Cast SDK, amounts to starting a discovery, selecting (connecting to) a device, setting up the so-called RemoteMediaPlayer and then loading a media. There is plenty of documentation on our Cast documentation site that helps you follow and implement the above steps, along with a good number of sample apps.
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We want to be able to embed an audio file in a Slack chat via the web API.
So far I managed to files.remote.add but that's just an external link.
Then I tried files.upload and share it to a channel, it does embed and play right inside Slack, but for us it's a suboptimal solution, as users can easily download the file, which is against our requirements.
Is there another way to achieve this?
PS: I've read almost all the documentation, there doesn't seem to be an audio or media block type, although I've seen examples that cite a file block type which is neither documented in the API and it's not defined in Bolt. (at least there are no type definitions for it for typescript)
It's not currently possible to embed a media player (audio or video) via the API. We're constantly tuning our APIs, if you have a specific use case in mind, would you mind writing in to feedback#slack.com and we'll get it logged. Thank you!
Is there a way to create an add-on “snapchat-like” video feature for the video calls?
I want to build an app that will get and manipulate the user camera stream source, then the user will decide if and when to share it on his ms-teams calls.
Currently we only have Calls and online meetings support for bot. There is no support for processing video call stream yet.
As of now we don't have more details to share on this.
I want to know please if it is possible to build a cast app for google home which casts content from an app to Chromecast using Google home. For example, "Ok google, play XXXAudio/videoContent from XXXApp on the TV."
This means that I want to cast a content from XXXApp to Chromecast, but without using the phone to do that, but rather using Google home.
I have imagined doing that like : Google home retrieves the requested data from the XXXApp then casts the content, through the receiver, to Chromecast. The requested content is then displayed on the TV.
Any help or advice will be appreciated.
It depends exactly what you want your cast app to do.
If you want to be able to provide media just like someone like Spotify or a local streaming radio station does, you need to parter with Google. You'll then have access to a range of partner solution feed options.
If you have other cast apps that you want, or other things that you may want to cast to a tv (for example) - these aren't currently available. However, Smart Displays using the Assistant are coming shortly, and these may start to introduce capabilities that will also be available for cast devices.
One could probably do something that started the cast app from an existing supported device and then, once running, control it via an Action. But this isn't something directly available right now.
Media exists on an external server that I would like to play on my cast receiver (a modified version of Google's CastReferencePlayer). The receiver is in constant communication with this server (via long-polling), and is instructed by the server when it needs to play a certain media file.
The issue I'm having is that I need the receiver to be able to essentially "tell itself" to play this media. This breaks with the standard sender-receiver communication protocol, but is necessary for my application and I don't believe too outlandish of a request.
As I understand it, the MediaManager object automagically receives all requests from cast senders to play media. I am looking for a way to hook into the MediaManager and tell it to play certain media without receiving a formal request from a sender.
Despite a lot of searching and reading through documentation, I can't find a way to do this. Does anyone know of any way to accomplish this?
i saw this on the google plus chromecast dev page, though i havent gotten it to work yet
Add/remove items using: https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/reference/receiver/cast.receiver.MediaManager#insertQueueItems, https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/reference/receiver/cast.receiver.MediaManager#removeQueueItems
I am interested in developing a play back device with the Google Cast for Audio standard.
Is there a public documentation of the protocol?
Or who do I have to contact to get the procotol details for implementing a receiver?
(I dont want to write a chrome cast app)
Thanks in advance!
At this point, we generally aren't licensing Google Cast to external partners. We may expand our product ecosystem in the future.