ImportError: cannot import name 'get_chromecast'

[sbolten]

When trying to call connector.py I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./connector.py", line 4, in <module>
    from handler.event import EventHandler
  File "/home/stephan/chromecast_mqtt/chromecast-mqtt-connector/handler/event.py", line 1, in <module>
    from handler.adapter import ChromecastConnection, ChromecastConnectionCallback
  File "/home/stephan/chromecast_mqtt/chromecast-mqtt-connector/handler/adapter.py", line 2, in <module>
    from pychromecast import get_chromecast, ChromecastConnectionError, IDLE_APP_ID
ImportError: cannot import name 'get_chromecast'

Output of pip3 freeze:

enum-compat==0.0.2
netifaces==0.10.4
numpy==1.8.2
paho-mqtt==1.2.1
Pillow==2.6.1
protobuf==3.2.0
PyChromecast==0.8.1
requests==2.13.0
RTIMULib==7.2.1
sense-hat==2.2.0
six==1.10.0
zeroconf==0.19.0

Problematic line seems to be:

from handler.event import EventHandler

Since I am not a python guy I have no clue how to fix it.

Regards,

Stephan

[nohum]

Hello!

Thanks for reporting, the PyChromecast library has been updated, so for the moment your PyChromecast installation is too new.

You can fix this for the moment being by uninstalling PyChromecast and installing a working specific version like so:

pip3 install PyChromecast==0.7.7

Thanks for reporting, I will look into that.

[nohum]

Actually, I fixed the problem in the branch #4-fix-old-pychromecast if you want to try it out without needing to downgrade anything.

[sbolten]

Found the problem - had to install an older version of pychromecast --> 0.7.7. All versions above do not have the get_chromecast thing.....

sudo pip3 install pychromecast==0.7.7

Anyhow the chromecast-mqtt-connector progs should be able to run against the latest version of pychromecast.

Stephan

[nohum]

@sbolten See the two comments and the branch above ;)

[sbolten]

Seems that I found the "bug" while you fixed it - thank anyway... :-)

Will try your fix later. Thx again - great support.

[sbolten]

Works like a charm with the fix branch.....