castnow picks up wrong IP address

[kim0]

My machine has multiple IP addresses (I've got virtualization software installed). I noticed castnow picks up the wrong IP address, thus initially it was never working for me .. I noticed that if I pass the --myip parameter, it does work (and it's awesome)

castnow should automatically pick the IP address that falls within the network of the chromecast device.

[xat]

Very nice idea :)
If someone has multiple network adapters in the same network as chromecast we would just choose randomly one of them I guess.

[kim0]

Another (possibly simpler) solution, is to bind the webserver to ip 0.0.0.0 which corresponds to all known IP addresses .. Usually bad for security, but in this case, I guess the convenience beats being too pedantic on security .. Guess that would work no?

[xat]

Chromecast also needs to know your IP since it's fetching the video data from your computer.

[kim0]

Agreed 👍

[kennyluk]

I use vmware on OSX and castnow is still picking up the VM's interfaces, even though their ip's begin with 172.16 and my real machine's ip is 192.168

[bugdanov]

Hi there !

It's because internal-ip returns the last ip address instead ot the primary network interface address.

I fixed it with this:
bugdanov/internal-ip@0b9a350

Could not test it on Windows or MacOS