cast_control

This release introduces many changes, and introduces a Python 3.12 requirement.

You can install this version like so on Python 3.12:

python3 -m pip install cast_control==0.14.0

This release fixes regressions in the device abstraction layer.

You can install this version like so:

python3 -m pip install cast_control==0.11.8.post0

Fixes the following error:

AttributeError: 'Chromecast' object has no attribute '_longest_duration'

Installation:

python3 -m pip install cast_control==0.11.4.post1

This release adds some new changes:

• (Change log in progress)

You can install this version like so:

python3 -m pip install cast_control==0.11.4

This release adds some new changes:

• Fix seeking
• Fix issue #11
• Fix user data directory creation
• Fix changes that broke Python 3.7 support
• Perform no extra I/O on launch
• Cache I/O when creating or reading user data
• Ensure user data directories exist before saving user data
• Add icon cache for Android TV apps that turn notifications into CASTV2 metadata
• Start transition to declarative packaging, add setup.cfg
• Use parameterized containers on Python 3.7+ (PEP 575)
• Upgrade mpris_server to the 0.3.x branch with version 0.3.4
• Remove unused code

You can install this version like so:

python3 -m pip install cast_control==0.11.3

This release adds some new changes:

• Included icons are now vector images, instead of bitmaps
• Update media duration calculation
• More metadata ships with the module
• Licensing and author info ship with assets
• Refactoring

You can install this version like so:

python3 -m pip install cast_control==0.10.11

This release fixes YouTube playback and metadata collection.

You can install this version like so:

python3 -m pip install cast_control==0.10.9

This release includes some small changes:

• Ensure executables point to the correct module
• Support for BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds via PyChromecast
• Upgrade PyChromecast to 9.2.0
• Renaming and refactoring

You can install this version like so:

python3 -m pip install cast_control==0.10.8

This release includes some new changes:

• Fix error where volume level changes on the device aren't kept in sync with cast_control
• Fix YouTube URL detection regression
• Use casefold for caseless name comparisons with -n/--name option
• Check that cast_control/castctl are always pointing to existing endpoints
• Refactoring

You can install this version like so:

python3 -m pip install cast_control==0.10.7

This release includes one fix:

• Fix launching from cast_control and castctl executables

You can install this version like so:

python3 -m pip install cast_control==0.10.6

This release introduces new changes:

• Add -V/--version flag to display version number
• Add -L/--license flag to display license, copyright and author information
• Add GitHub link to help text
• Show help text when invoked without any options or commands
• Redefine criteria for MediaPlayer2.Player.CanPlay support
• Further caching to speed up functionality dependent on disk I/O
• Use typing.Protocol and add typing_extensions dependency for support on Python 3.7
• Update README
• Refactoring

You can install this version like so:

python3 -m pip install cast_control==0.10.5

This release introduces a few changes:

• Fix launching via connect command
• Use concurrent I/O at launch for faster startup times
• Simplify parsing of media and app titles

You can install this version like so:

python3 -m pip install cast_control==0.10.3

This release introduces three small changes:

• Further optimize disk access and caching for faster launch times
• Ensure logging configuration isn't set twice, potentially leaking service logs to the console
• Rename the service show command to service log

You can install this version like so:

python3 -m pip install cast_control==0.10.2

This release introduces some small changes:

• Optimize disk access and caching for faster launch times and less I/O
• Add information about castctl to README
• Add version and author information as per PEP 396
• Refactoring

You can install this version like so:

python3 -m pip install cast_control==0.10.1

This release introduces some new changes:

• Add service reconnect command to restart the running background service
• Add service show command to print the service logs
• Support upgrading the .desktop files cast_control generates
• Create user state, data, and log directories
• Cache arguments supplied to service connect
• Save service logs to file that is replaced at service launch
• Show log file location with service show
• Handle errors when launching background service
• Check if service is running when running service disconnect command
• Upgrade dependencies and remove unused dependencies
• Update README

You can install this version like so:

python3 -m pip install cast_control==0.10.0

This is the first release of cast_control. In addition to the new name, there are a few big changes:

• A new command-line interface with the connect and service commands
• Launch and manage cast_control as a background service with the service command
• cast_control and the shorter castctl commands replace chromecast_mpris on the command-line
• Target Python 3.7+ and drop support for 3.6

You can install this version like so:

python3 -m pip install cast_control==0.9.4

This is the final release under the name chromecast_mpris. The project's new name is Cast Control, and the PyPI package is cast_control.

Changes:

• Show deprecation warnings when launched
• Installing this package will install cast_control as long as Python 3.7+ is available

You can install this version like so:

python3 -m pip install chromecast_mpris==0.8.12

This release has a few small changes:

• Fix support for default thumbnail images
• Reduce image file sizes. The wheel package on PyPI is now half of the size it was before.
• Back end refactoring

You can install this version like so:

python3 -m pip install chromecast_mpris==0.8.3

This release has one small change:

• Continue gracefully even if desktop files cannot be created, read or found

You can install this version like so:

python3 -m pip install chromecast_mpris==0.8.2

This release introduces some small changes:

• Displayed icons are now loaded from local files, instead of using externally hosted icons
• Add and move image assets
• Fix dead images in README

You can install this version like so:

python3 -m pip install chromecast_mpris==0.8.1