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Sony soundbar with cast support #43

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mtcliff79 opened this issue Jan 29, 2017 · 6 comments
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Sony soundbar with cast support #43

mtcliff79 opened this issue Jan 29, 2017 · 6 comments
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mtcliff79 commented Jan 29, 2017 •
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mkchromecast is able to detect my two sony soundbars right out of the box, very encouraging start! two issues that I have:

  • the subwoofer connected to the sound bar does not play any audio when using mkchromecast. It does work will every other input for example the same audio source connected through HDMI and other chromecast sources.

  • no matter which device i select (device 1, device 2 or a group) mkchromecast always casts to all speakers. good news is that its in perfect multiroom sync. Ideally I could only cast to one of the devices.

Running Ubuntu 16.10
muammar added a commit that referenced this issue Jan 29, 2017
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This commit is another attempt to issues #41, and #43.
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muammar commented Jan 29, 2017

mkchromecast is able to detect my two sony soundbars right out of the box, very encouraging start! two issues that I have:

the subwoofer connected to the sound bar does not play any audio when using mkchromecast. It does work will every other input for example the same audio source connected through HDMI and other chromecast sources.

Let's get back to this after we see if we can connect to the desired google cast device.

no matter which device i select (device 1, device 2 or a group) mkchromecast always casts to all speakers. good news is that its in perfect multiroom sync. Ideally I could only cast to one of the devices.
Running Ubuntu 16.10

I think I may have fixed this issue. Are you using the deb packages or the github repo? if you are using the latter, please checkout in devel and try to run mkchromecast from console.

Thanks for your report!.

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I was using the deb package 0.3.6. I used the git code, subwoofer is now working perfectly. I can also select each soundbar independently. However when I select the multiroom group it would seem to play on the chromecast tv rather than the two soundbar configured into a group. When I removed the cc tv multiroom playback worked.

Another interesting thing to note was that the system tray sometimes has a tick on more than one device even if i'm casting to one speaker. Have not fully tested this however.

FYI my plan is to create a script in Kodi so that I can chromecast kodi audio to speakers using yatse remote.

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muammar commented Jan 30, 2017

I was using the deb package 0.3.6. I used the git code, subwoofer is now working perfectly. I can also select each soundbar independently. However when I select the multiroom group it would seem to play on the chromecast tv rather than the two soundbar configured into a group. When I removed the cc tv multiroom playback worked.

Good to know that the subwoofer is playing well. Out of curiosity, are you using the master or devel branch?. If you are not using the latter, can you test it, please?. The error with not correctly selecting the google cast device was because I used indexes instead of names. It turns out that the order in which google cast devices are discovered may change. I fixed that in devel.

Another interesting thing to note was that the system tray sometimes has a tick on more than one device even if i'm casting to one speaker. Have not fully tested this however.

I know, I need to solve that :). Thanks for reporting it.

FYI my plan is to create a script in Kodi so that I can chromecast kodi audio to speakers using yatse remote.

It sounds nice. It is good to know this app is being useful.

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muammar commented Jan 30, 2017

I decided to merge devel into master. So you can just git pull to test.

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ok, updated and on first test all is working well!

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muammar commented Jan 31, 2017

ok, updated and on first test all is working well!

Thank you. I am closing this report. Please do not hesitate to reopen if the issue is not fixed.

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muammar added a commit that referenced this issue Feb 1, 2017
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Merge branch 'master' into debian
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* master: (96 commits)
  FLAC does support bitrate. This is related to #40.
  Fixed aac codec in macOS.
  Updated brew command for macOS.
  Updated README>
  Quotations are not needed for setting the name of devices.
  This commit is related to #40. Device names are not ordered the same in different systems.
  Qt 5.8.0.
  This commit is another attempt to issues #41, and #43.
  - Added support to 192000Hz sampling rate support. This commit closes   #39. - Fixed a minimal problem with size of preferences pane.
  Update README.md
  - Updated to node 7.4.0. - Updated ChangeLog.
  Updated Makefile.
  Update README.md
  Updated README.
  A lambda function that passes clicked_item as an argument to the self.clicked_cc() method was added to cast_list(). This last method, sets the correct index and name of the chromecast to be used by self.play_cast() when a user click on the menu item. This issue was reported by Térence Clastres.
  --resolution flag is now working.
  First steps towards `--resolution` flag.
  Catching TypeError introduced by pull #38.
  - Fixed some if statements.
  - Some cleaning in the code. - Renamed flag from -f to -i.
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