pycastr
Neat tool to cast your audio/video to kodi clients
Features
Mirror your systems desktop on your TV
Stream your audio to your hifi system
Usage
NOTE: Two dummy clients are added as examples in pycastr.py. Sometimes client discovery fails, if this happens, just add your clients in lines 45-48 in pycastr.py.
- Select “Search clients” to update the list of available clients
- Select a client from the list to start casting
- Select this client again to stop casting
- Choose “Screen mirroring” for video casting
Icons
The original icons used by pycastr may be found in Google’s material design icon repository.
Compile and Install
Install with Cmake
For advanced instructions please take a look at the elementary os developer guidelines.
Please start with cloning or downloading the repository.
- Create a build directory
mkdir build
- Change to build directory
cd build/
- Prepare to build the app
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ../
- Build the app
make
- Install the app
sudo make install