chromecast-js

chromecast-js is a javascript client library for googlecast's remote playback protocol that uses DefaultMediaReceiver to play any (compatible) content in the Chromecast, it works by wrapping the node-castv2-client module.

Installation

From npm:

npm install chromecast-js 

Usage

chromecastjs = require('chromecast-js');

var browser = new chromecastjs.Browser();

browser.on('deviceOn', function(device) {
	device.connect();
	device.on('connected', function() {

		device.play('http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/big_buck_bunny_1080p.mp4', 60, function() {
			console.log('Playing big_buck_bunny on your chromecast!')
		});

		setTimeout(function() {
			device.pause(function() {
				console.log('Paused!');
			});
		}, 30000);

		setTimeout(function() {
			device.stop(function() {
				console.log('Stoped!');
			});
		}, 40000);

	});
});

Subtitles and Cover

To include subtitles and a cover image with the media title, use an Object instead of a string in the play method:

chromecastjs = require('../');

var browser = new chromecastjs.Browser();

var media = {
	url : 'http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/big_buck_bunny_1080p.mp4',
	subtitles: [
		{
			language: 'en-US',
			url: 'http://carlosguerrero.com/captions_styled.vtt',
			name: 'English'
		},
		{
			language: 'es-ES',
			url: 'http://carlosguerrero.com/captions_styled_es.vtt',
			name: 'Spanish'
		}
	],
	cover: {
		title: 'Big Bug Bunny',
		url: 'http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/images/BigBuckBunny.jpg'
	},
	subtitles_style: { 
		backgroundColor: '#FFFFFFFF', // see http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-color/#hex-notation
		foregroundColor: '#000FFFF', // see http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-color/#hex-notation
		edgeType: 'DROP_SHADOW', // can be: "NONE", "OUTLINE", "DROP_SHADOW", "RAISED", "DEPRESSED"
		edgeColor: '#AA00FFFF', // see http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-color/#hex-notation
		fontScale: 1.5, // transforms into "font-size: " + (fontScale*100) +"%"
		fontStyle: 'BOLD_ITALIC', // can be: "NORMAL", "BOLD", "BOLD_ITALIC", "ITALIC",
		fontFamily: 'Droid Sans',
		fontGenericFamily: 'CURSIVE', // can be: "SANS_SERIF", "MONOSPACED_SANS_SERIF", "SERIF", "MONOSPACED_SERIF", "CASUAL", "CURSIVE", "SMALL_CAPITALS",
		windowColor: '#AA00FFFF', // see http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-color/#hex-notation
		windowRoundedCornerRadius: 10, // radius in px
		windowType: 'ROUNDED_CORNERS' // can be: "NONE", "NORMAL", "ROUNDED_CORNERS"
	}
};


browser.on('deviceOn', function(device) {
	device.connect();
	device.on('connected', function() {

		// Starting to play Big Buck Bunny (made in Blender) exactly in the first minute without subtitles or cover.
		//device.play('http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/big_buck_bunny_1080p.mp4', 60, function(){
		//    console.log('Playing in your chromecast!')
		//});

		// Starting to play Big Buck Bunny (made in Blender) exactly in the first minute with example subtitles and cover.
		device.play(media, 0, function(){
			console.log('Playing in your chromecast!')

			setTimeout(function(){
				console.log('subtitles off!')
				device.subtitlesOff(function(err,status){
					if(err) console.log("error setting subtitles off...")
					console.log("subtitles removed.")
				});
			}, 20000);

			setTimeout(function(){
				console.log('subtitles on!')
				device.changeSubtitles(1, function(err, status){
					if(err) console.log("error restoring subtitles...")
					console.log("subtitles restored.")
				});
			}, 25000);

			setTimeout(function(){
				console.log('subtitles on!')
				device.changeSubtitles(1, function(err, status){
					if(err) console.log("error restoring subtitles...")
					console.log("subtitles restored.")
				});
			}, 25000);

			setTimeout(function(){
				device.pause(function(){
					console.log('Paused!')
				});
			}, 30000);

			setTimeout(function(){
				device.unpause(function(){
					console.log('unpaused!')
				});
			}, 40000);

			setTimeout(function(){
				console.log('I ment English subtitles!')
				device.changeSubtitles(0, function(err, status){
					if(err) console.log("error restoring subtitles...")
					console.log("English subtitles restored.")
				});
			}, 45000);

			setTimeout(function(){
				console.log('Increasing subtitles size...')
				device.changeSubtitlesSize(10, function(err, status){
					if(err) console.log("error increasing subtitles size...")
					console.log("subtitles size increased.")
				});
			}, 46000);

			setTimeout(function(){
				device.seek(30,function(){
					console.log('seeking forward!')
				});
			}, 50000);

			setTimeout(function(){
				console.log('decreasing subtitles size...')
				device.changeSubtitlesSize(1, function(err, status){
					if(err) console.log("error...")
					console.log("subtitles size decreased.")
				});
			}, 60000);

			setTimeout(function(){
				device.pause(function(){
					console.log('Paused!')
				});
			}, 70000);

			setTimeout(function(){
				device.seek(30,function(){
					console.log('seeking forward!')
				});
			}, 80000);

			setTimeout(function(){
				device.seek(30,function(){
					console.log('seeking forward!')
				});
			}, 85000);

			setTimeout(function(){
				device.unpause(function(){
					console.log('unpaused!')
				});
			}, 90000);


			setTimeout(function(){
				device.seek(-30,function(){
					console.log('seeking backwards!')
				});
			}, 100000);


			setTimeout(function(){
				device.stop(function(){
					console.log('Stoped!')
				});
			}, 200000);
		});
	});
};