I thought chromecast was closed for some reason, what is stopping me from using it standalone for videos on rpi or in KDE?
AFAIK this only concerns casting TO a chromecast (or miracast) enabled device, which has been possible for a while now (the new part being the support for it in this desktop application), but you can't make a device a chromecast receiver because that part is proprietary.
You can set up your rpi as a miracast receiver or use sunshine/moonlight to stream your whole phone screen / pc monitor to your rpi, but the ability to just press "cast" on your phone and then do whatever else on it while the content plays on your TV is sadly locked behind the proprietary walls of google / apple
Dang, yea that is what I was confused about. Will try the miracast receiver on my pi though.
I thought chromecast was closed for some reason, what is stopping me from using it standalone for videos on rpi or in KDE?
AFAIK this only concerns casting TO a chromecast (or miracast) enabled device, which has been possible for a while now (the new part being the support for it in this desktop application), but you can't make a device a chromecast receiver because that part is proprietary. You can set up your rpi as a miracast receiver or use sunshine/moonlight to stream your whole phone screen / pc monitor to your rpi, but the ability to just press "cast" on your phone and then do whatever else on it while the content plays on your TV is sadly locked behind the proprietary walls of google / apple
Dang, yea that is what I was confused about. Will try the miracast receiver on my pi though.
There seems to be a receiver available using some tricks https://github.com/rgerganov/shanocast
Might just be one of those closed dependencies they have you opt into at install time