Multiroom audio

Manoj · August 11, 2019, 9:40am

MicroG was updated a month back to the then latest branch and a defect raised for this was closed.

cedricoola · August 11, 2019, 11:30am

Would love to hear from users what is there experience.

Manoj · August 11, 2019, 11:41am

To add to what I mentioned earlier I had tested casting YouTube from Chromecast App on my phone and it was working. This was a couple of weeks back and had closed an issue I had raised related to this.

cedricoola · August 11, 2019, 12:04pm

Good to hear that casting on a screen works.
If any /e/ users have been casting on speakers, would love to hear from them.

cedricoola · August 12, 2019, 6:00pm

I’m wondering if the audio casting function requires the latest version of the Google Play Store app to be installed on the device. It appears to be like that on another device I tried that has Google default Android. In any case, i’m not going to install Play store on /e/.

Manoj · August 12, 2019, 11:12pm

I am not sure you can even install Google Play store on top of /e/ .Not only does it go against the entire idea behind /e/ but also since all Google calls have been removed from the code Google Play may not work.

facb69 · August 26, 2019, 7:13pm

@Manoj
I read your post on https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/apps/GmsCore/issues/4 and you said that you managed to cast YouTube (downloaded from App Store) to Chromeccast using MicroG version 0.2.7.17455.
I’m using MicroG version 0.2.8.17785 and the same YouTube app but nothing happens; no cast icon shows up.
Sorry but what am I missing here?

Manoj · August 26, 2019, 11:02pm

Thanks for pointing this out. I had testing this sometime back. Later I removed the chromecast and now use a RaspberryPi 2 with libreelec 18.3 to run Kodi …in short never got a chance to retest Chromecast. Will test it again and get back to you

Manoj · August 27, 2019, 1:28am

Just tested the YouTube app on Apps with a Chromecast using MicroG v0.2.8.17785 and it was working. I am testing on a Pi/e/ build not sure that should make a difference

facb69 · August 27, 2019, 10:02am

Looks something is different in my phone from yours
But I’ll give it another try by night and see if I am the one missing something here.
Thanks in advance.

Manoj · August 27, 2019, 10:06am

Check the wifi network of your chromecast and your phone they should be the same. I have two networks on my wifi router which causes some confusion.

facb69 · August 27, 2019, 10:46am

I only have one wi-fi network at home so this shouldn’t be the problem but I’ll run a test by night with my /e/ phone and my Lineage phone. Both with official YouTube apps.
I’ll post the results here by tomorrow, ok?
Thanks again for your attention @Manoj.

facb69 · August 28, 2019, 9:10pm

Hi @Manoj
Unfortunately, it did not work.
Only one network, both Chromecast and phone connected to it, and no cast icon.
No firewall or antivirus on phone.
I tried other apps that has support to Chromecast like Netflix, XPlayer…
I have a Google account on the phone.
I even tried the Google Home app (from the App Store).
Well, I guess I’m out of luck here.
If you think of something else let me know, ok?
Thanks for your attention.

Manoj · August 29, 2019, 1:42pm

Strange. Can you try to reboot your phone and again check if the cast icons appears. If it is still not showing up you should log a bug report with logs or let me know and I shall reopen the bug that I had closed. You can add you log and phone make ,OS details to it.

facb69 · August 29, 2019, 1:57pm

Ok @Manoj
I’ll do that later on and let you know.
Thank you once more.

facb69 · September 1, 2019, 3:47pm

Hi @Manoj
My tests failed again.
I added a comment on your bug report at Gitlab and attached a logcat.
Thank you.

Manoj · September 1, 2019, 11:10pm

Thanks @facb69 for sharing the log I have reopened the issue on Gitlab.

facb69 · September 2, 2019, 10:19am

Thank you @Manoj
I’ll follow up the Gitlab issue.

Unknown · September 27, 2019, 10:42am

cedricoola · December 3, 2019, 9:03pm

Just wanted to come back here to ask: has anyone been able to use /e/ to play sound on a ‘Chromecast built-in’ speaker? that’s one of these speakers with the Google casting technology inside. Not talking about a TV or a set-top box with Chromecast here. Wanted to hear from users before trying it out this weekend.

Edit:
Just tried: I was successful playing music through Chromecast with the DS Audio app on /e/! Good news! However, with the Spotify app, although it lists my speaker, it says ‘Connecting’, and never connects.

Edit 2:
If Chromecast wasn’t working at all for me I would suspect a problem of MicroG not supporting Chromecast and just give up. But I made it work with DS Audio! How is that possible?

Edit 3:
In this configuration the control functions with DS Audio are very limited. Play, pause, previous, next. I think that’s it. I can’t change the volume, so it’s pretty useless.