xline82 / cast

Control your google chromecast via the command line

cast

A linux command line tool to control your chromecast.

Note: this is a work in progress and the command line interface may change a lot.

Installation

You can install it by doing

pip install cast

Usage

cast play: resume playing.

cast pause: pause current content.

cast volume: show current volume.

cast volume 0.3: set current volume to 0.3 (needs to be a value between 0 and 1)

cast status: show a status message.

cast toggle: toggle play/pause.

cast seek 10: seek to 10th second of the song.

cast rewind: restart current content.

Configuration

cast loads it's config from ~/.config/cast/config.ini. An example config looks like this:

[cast]
chromecast_ip=192.168.178.19
sleep_time=0.3

License

This tool is released under the MIT license. See LICENSE.

Thanks

Many thanks to Paul Schoutsen for creating pychromecast, on which this utility greatly relies.

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