Cast, Push2Run and SetVol

Bug reports • Re: Request for a Force cast command despite missing devices

2020-07-24T06:25:16

Appreciate the quick reply, I figure I ask before I do the work of reserving IP addresses to all the Google devices on the network. Thanks for the great software, keep it up!

Statistics: Posted by splugburp — Fri Jul 24, 2020 6:25 am

Bug reports • Re: Request for a Force cast command despite missing devices

2020-07-24T02:35:49

basically -inventory sends a broadcast out to all your devices asking them to report in. I too have found from time to time some don't report back, not sure why

if you use the IP addresses everything will be much more reliable

when you use the device name, cast needs to find it first and then do the casting

when you use the IP address it just casts to the device at that IP address

if you use IP addresses you will likely need set them up as static in your router; i.e. they won't be dynamically resigned from time to time. If you don't know how to approach this just google for it and your router make and model

Statistics: Posted by RobLatour — Fri Jul 24, 2020 2:35 am

Bug reports • Request for a Force cast command despite missing devices

2020-07-24T01:27:47

I have several cast devices in the home and I want to setup cast to play back to only a select few devices. However, I've noticed that the -inventory command isn't consistent; I might run the command and it will pull up a list of detected devices, which may not be all of them. I'll run it again and then the majority are missing. I'll run it again and then a bunch of them are listed. I'm not sure why the devices keeps dropping in and out, there's no networking issues with the devices themselves as they are working normally.

Anyways, it's not a big deal if one or two of the devices aren't showing up, but the problem is if one of the devices are not seen by cast, then the command doesn't run at all. It would be nice if we could type a command to force it to still cast to other devices that are in the device list, even if all of them are not detected.

Here's the command I currently want to use:
-device "Bathroom Speaker" "Bedroom Display" "Living Room Display" "Kitchen Display" -voice Microsoft Zira Desktop -volume 60 -text Yes, your computer is on

The command works fine if I send it to a device that is currently detected by -inventory. Would sending the cast commands directly to the IP of the devices instead of the name make any difference?

Statistics: Posted by splugburp — Fri Jul 24, 2020 1:27 am

Bug reports • Re: Search and Edit a card not working well

2020-07-23T00:06:13

if you right-click on it and select edit, it will open up in edit mode.

if you left-click on it and select Actions - Edit from the menu bar, it will open up in edit mode.

if you left-click on it and press F4, it will open up in edit mode.

Hope this will help for the time being.

Statistics: Posted by RobLatour — Thu Jul 23, 2020 12:06 am

Bug reports • Search and Edit a card not working well

2020-07-22T19:48:46

Hi

I just noticed that when I try to search for a card, then double click to edit it, it doesn't seem to allow this behavior. I'm not sure if this is a bug or more so a feature request, it would be nice option though.

Thanks

Jeff

Statistics: Posted by getgonged — Wed Jul 22, 2020 7:48 pm

Feature requests • Re: Remote connect to MySQL server

2020-07-22T19:46:12

Just wanted to add to this gentleman's response, I wish there was an option in the program to not have the mysql database encrypted. I'm not too worried about encryption for my cards.

The other thing is, it's very difficult to export all the cards. I have to one by one drag each one which takes a very long time. In addition it is a little tricky because for some reason the drag n drop isn't all that responsive so you have to click and drag a few times before a single entry actually drags.

Statistics: Posted by getgonged — Wed Jul 22, 2020 7:46 pm

Shared Push2Run cards • Re: Play any Song, Artist or Radio Station on Demand From Your Own MP3 Collection

2020-07-22T11:37:36

I forgot to mention that I might have an idea on a way to play music based on Genre (or possibly even rating) using your script.

I've not looked into it much yet, but it would involve using powershell to extract their metadata.

This article gave me the idea https://devblogs.microsoft.com/scriptin ... owershell/

Statistics: Posted by streaming_owner — Wed Jul 22, 2020 11:37 am

Shared Push2Run cards • Re: Play any Song, Artist or Radio Station on Demand From Your Own MP3 Collection

2020-07-22T11:20:35

It seems to work well, but I've not played around enough with it to provide any sort of useful feedback yet.

For my use case, I was trying to get an intermediary program such as cast.exe or AirParrot3 to cast the music back to my Google home speaker and that unfortunately has been where I've spent most of my time. I couldn't get cast or alternatives to work and AirParrot3 has been difficult to reliably automate. None of these issues have anything to do with your script though!!!!

I'm planning on playing around with it again hopefully before next week. I will focus specifically on your script this time and give you feedback

Statistics: Posted by streaming_owner — Wed Jul 22, 2020 11:20 am

Shared Push2Run cards • Re: Play any Song, Artist or Radio Station on Demand From Your Own MP3 Collection

2020-07-22T09:57:52

Heya - Did you get it working ok then ?

Statistics: Posted by Warrior — Wed Jul 22, 2020 9:57 am

Bug reports • Re: Push2run close and open all time

2020-07-12T19:54:45

again, try turning Windows UAC on to its default settings - does that help?

Statistics: Posted by RobLatour — Sun Jul 12, 2020 7:54 pm

Bug reports • Re: Push2run close and open all time

2020-07-12T17:49:01

I'm having to same problem,
were you able to fix it?

Statistics: Posted by Luix333 — Sun Jul 12, 2020 5:49 pm

Shared Push2Run cards • Re: Play any Song, Artist or Radio Station on Demand From Your Own MP3 Collection

2020-07-11T14:04:27

I've not had a chance to test it much yet, so no feedback yet (except that it is awesome!). Just thought I would share my powershell script for populating the Mp3List.

This script is useful if you have songs that are in languages other than English. It also includes a few different song formats.

CODE:

Get-ChildItem -Path "C:\musicfolder1", "D:\musicfolder2" -Include *.mp3,*.m4a,*.wma,*.m4p,*.m4v,*.wav,*.mp2,*.ogg,*.flac,*.mpga -Recurse -File| ForEach-Object {    % { $_.FullName }} | Out-File -Encoding UTF8 -FilePath "C:\MediaSort\Mp3List.txt"

Statistics: Posted by streaming_owner — Sat Jul 11, 2020 2:04 pm

Shared Push2Run cards • Re: Play any Song, Artist or Radio Station on Demand From Your Own MP3 Collection

2020-07-07T09:58:45

Thanks Warior! I got the pm, but can't msg back yet because my account is new.
Aiming to give the script a go tonight.

Statistics: Posted by streaming_owner — Tue Jul 07, 2020 9:58 am

Shared Push2Run cards • Re: Play any Song, Artist or Radio Station on Demand From Your Own MP3 Collection

2020-07-07T07:20:56

Hi

PM sent.

Statistics: Posted by Warrior — Tue Jul 07, 2020 7:20 am

Shared Push2Run cards • Re: Play any Song, Artist or Radio Station on Demand From Your Own MP3 Collection

2020-07-06T12:37:04

Hi Warrior,
If possible, could you send me a link to the script too please?
I'm hoping to use this in conjunction with AirParrot3 to stream the music from my computer back to my google home device! A bit like my own personal music streaming service

Statistics: Posted by streaming_owner — Mon Jul 06, 2020 12:37 pm