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alexpersian
Fantastic! Thanks for the continued work Guilherme!
sumitgt
This is nice. Though, I plan on going through the source code later, can you give a short gist of how it works?
sanjeetsuhag
How what works ? Are you asking about the fetching of the streams or the Chromecast support ?
insidegui
I don't know which part you're most interested in, but in a nutshell: the events are fetched from the same API as the Apple TV Events app (found that using a proxy), the Chromecast streaming uses Bonjour to find Chromecast devices on the network and the CASTV2 protocol over TCP to send commands to them.
oceanghost
I've done a lot of cast hacking for my employer-- very interested in this :)
lmedinas
Did you reverse engineer the Chromecast protocol ? Or is it opensource now ?
alexbilbie
It's open source - https://developers.google.com/cast/
lmedinas
But unfortunately is only available for "Android, Chrome or iOS app"

So this means other applications like Firefox, VLC etc... would have to reverse engineer the protocol.

Rexxar
reverse engineering != porting to an other platform

edit: but is it really open source as said by previous comment or is it just an SDK ?

mcintyre1994
It's closed source. This project uses an open source implementation he wrote himself: https://github.com/insidegui/ChromeCastCore

> This framework implements the Google Cast APIs so they can be used in macOS apps. Google provides an official SDK but it is only for iOS and closed source.

lorenzhs
VLC has Chromecast support in the development version, and has had it for over a year now. They had to reverse-engineer the protocol. I think the UI is a bit cludgey but it works.
insidegui
The Chromecast protocol specification (CASTV2) itself is sort of open. To implement it on macOS I did a little bit of reverse engineering and used a description of the protocol I found here: https://github.com/thibauts/node-castv2
fzn
There might be a naming clash here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_event
insidegui
Hahahahaha true!
soapdog
Yes, I went to the link quite happy because I thought it was related to AppleEvents and maybe Apple Scripts. Your app is definitely cool, congratulations on your work but the name got me fooled.

PS: Maybe the HN people haven't used MacOS 9 and AppleScript a lot and will not do the association I did.