Usage

• Documentation
• Try out Rust Caster to see this crate in action!

Build

Proto files are taken from Chromium GitHub mirror.

By default cargo build won't try to generate Rust code from the files located at protobuf/*, if you want to do that use GENERATE_PROTO environment variable during build and make sure you have protoc binary in $PATH:

bash $ GENERATE_PROTO=true cargo build

DNS TXT Record description

• md - Model Name (e.g. "Chromecast");
• id - UUID without hyphens of the particular device (e.g. xx12x3x456xx789xx01xx234x56789x0);
• fn - Friendly Name of the device (e.g. "Living Room");
• rs - Unknown (recent share???) (e.g. "Youtube TV");
• bs - Uknonwn (e.g. "XX1XXX2X3456");
• st - Unknown (e.g. "1");
• ca - Unknown (e.g. "1234");
• ic - Icon path (e.g. "/setup/icon.png");
• ve - Version (e.g. "04").

Model names

• Chromecast - Regular chromecast, supports video/audio;
• Chromecast Audio - Chromecast Audio device, supports only audio.

Useful links and sources of inspiration

• DIAL Protocol;
• An implementation of the Chromecast CASTV2 protocol in JS;
• Chromecast - steps closer to a python native api;