YouTube Cast Receiver for Volumio

Plugin that enables Volumio to act a YouTube Cast receiver device. Supports casting from YouTube and YouTube Music.

Changelog

1.0.6

• Fix broken API requests due to YT changes

1.0.5

• Fix player not reconnecting with MPD after being disconnected, such as when MPD restarts following a change in configuration.

1.0.4

• Add prefetching of next track
• Add 'prefer Opus streams' option when prefetching enabled
• Use Volumio player name as device name (the name that appears in the Cast menu of clients)

1.0.3

• Add option to stop playback only when all clients have been explicitly disconnected

1.0.2

• Remove commented-out code
• Remove links from package author because they don't look good when shown in Volumio plugin store

1.0.1

• Add i18n settings
• Add option to clear persisted data
• Bug fixes

1.0.0

• Add YouTube Music support
• Allow multiple connections
• Support manual pairing, aka Link with TV Code (YouTube only)
• Support playback of private videos and music

0.1.3

• Fix MPD connection
• Update dependency versions; replace deprecated request with node-fetch

0.1.2

• Improve fetching of audio URLs

0.1.1

• Check audio URLs and refetch on error response (retry up to 5 times)
• Minor change to loading of translations
• Update plugin for Volumio 3

0.1.0-b

• Version change to mark update of yt-cast-receiver module to version 0.1.1-b

0.1.0a-20210627

• Adapt to YouTube changes
• Really fix compatibility with Volumio 2.x
• Add 'Bind to Network Interface' setting

0.1.0a-20210620-2

• Fix compatibility with Volumio 2.x

0.1.0a-20210620

• Update yt-cast-receiver module

0.1.0a-20210419

• More robust transition from another service

0.1.0a-20210417

• Add livestream support

0.1.0a

• Initial release