This hasn't been updated for the past 2 years

[Brekmister]

For those who are going to try out this software, I unfortunately was unable to get this to work with the second generation Chromecast and/or Chrome 60. Waited for a couple of days with the SDK registration, rebooted, no dice.

From the looks of it, the latest commit was August 15, 2015. A lot has changed since then, it's probably time to update it to work with the new stuff.

Any thoughts?

[sirket]

It's pretty dead. There are a number of Chromecast libraries that have been released that could have been used for this- but Greenscreen was never updated to use them.

The project should be forked (if it hasn't been already) and someone else should take over.

[Brekmister]

Well it does need to be restarted from scratch anyways because I find that there are too many issues on this project.

If I get the time, I will reverse engineer this and start a new project to be written in plain JavaScript with Angular. However, I already got some fun projects on my hands.

If someone else wants to take on the task of recreating a thing such as this, I would love to hear about it so I can help out on that.

[Walkman100]

Also if someone does start a project similar to this, post about it here so we can find it and possibly help either develop or test it

[superhawk610]

Hope I'm not too late to the party - I just published multicast, Greenscreen's spiritual successor for the new Castv2 API via mDNS. I would appreciate help in testing and development. Let me know what you guys think.

[Brekmister]

@superhawk610 Man, I love the open source community! I will go take a look. 👍

EDIT: Holy crap dude, this thing is awesome! Be sure to keep up on your pull requests, It's just going to keep on snowballin'

[bojdell]

@ehzhang your people need you

[superhawk610]

@bojdell last I heard from @ehzhang, this project was deprecated after he left Groupon.

[yuzawa-san]

At the end of last year, I started work on a minimalist clone of greenscreen: googolplex-theater It is configured with a flat JSON file which is watched for changes. It ran about 24 casts to display some engineering stats from grafana in my office (in the before-times). I took my excess free time in this pandemic to package it up nicely for public consumption. Please feel free to test it out and send off any issues you may find. Hope this can be of use to the community and the folks in this thread looking for a greenscreen replacement.