SharpCaster

Currently Supported Platforms

• .NET Standard 2.0

SharpCaster is Chromecast C# SDK any platform support .net standard 2.0.

The nuget package

https://nuget.org/packages/SharpCaster/

PM> Install-Package SharpCaster

Getting started

Finding chromecast devices from network

IChromecastLocator locator = new MdnsChromecastLocator();
var source = new CancellationTokenSource(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(1500));
var chromecasts = await locator.FindReceiversAsync(source.Token);

Connecting to chromecast device, launch application and load media

var chromecast = chromecasts.First();
var client = new ChromecastClient();
await client.ConnectChromecast(chromecast);
_ = await client.LaunchApplicationAsync("B3419EF5");

var media = new Media
{
	ContentUrl = "https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/CastVideos/mp4/DesigningForGoogleCast.mp4"
};
_ = await client.MediaChannel.LoadAsync(media);

SharpCaster Demo

Adding support for custom chromecast channels

• In Chrome, go to chrome://net-export/
• Select 'Include raw bytes (will include cookies and credentials)'
• Click 'Start Logging to Disk'
• Open a new tab, browse to your favorite application on the web that has Chromecast support and start casting.
• Go back to the tab that is capturing events and click on stop.
• Open https://netlog-viewer.appspot.com/ and select your event log file.
• Browse to https://netlog-viewer.appspot.com/#events&q=type:SOCKET, and find the socket that has familiar JSON data.
• Go through the results and collect the JSON that is exchanged.
• Now you can create a new class that inherits from ChromecastChannel and implement the logic to send and receive messages.