Unusable documentation, part 2 about castvideos-chrome HOT 8 CLOSED

@nicbou I feel you, this is the whole reason I created my own wrapper at some point.
If you curious, here is the link:
https://github.com/fenny/castjs with an online demo

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Our response to your original ticket still apply. All our sample apps are designed to be pulled as code for you to host. The documentation explains how to use the Cast SDK for Chrome: https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/chrome_sender_integrate

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The problem is not that it's not there, but that it does not adequately fulfil its role.

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Me too @Fenny! Here's the link: https://github.com/nicbou/homeserver/blob/master/frontend/src/js/components/ChromeCastService.js

Here's the ChromeCast button that uses it: https://github.com/nicbou/homeserver/blob/master/frontend/src/js/components/ChromeCastButton.component.js

I've used it on my home server for about a year to stream videos to my projector, and it works great. I don't use it to control the video though (I use my phone for that), so your solution is likely more complete.

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I've used it on my home server for about a year to stream videos

nicbou, Great !
I'm trying to do the same thing however am running into issues :-
#24
Given it works for you, what did you do right ? :)

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I still use the file linked above. However I had to get a proper SSL certificate.

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OK. My web server is inaccessible from the internet, and I do not have a domain.
May I enquire how you went about it and who you went with to purchase the cert ?

I reckon google may have lost the plot a bit (rich people running it), likely forcing people to pay for domains and certs when an option to not use it inside a home LAN would be easily done - I'm a retiree, so yet another recurrent expense is not something I can really afford :(

Edit 2020/01: found a way to use a self-signed cert - even though a home browser baulks at it a bit, it still works.

My vanilla hack at https://github.com/hydra3333/Pi4CC has minimal changes to the CastVideos-chrome sample as at January 2020; the back-end runs on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Apache or on a Windows PC with IIS, while the front-end runs in a user chrome browser on a tablet or PC and uses the HTML5 "details" element to show/hide lists of videos.

Thank you google, for the sample, even though it is a tad difficult for novices to understand. I hope that one day you may consider a "dummies" version with a very greatly simplified interface exposing only a very few functions.

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Over two years later, I'm still disappointed that this ticket was closed without consideration. I still struggle to answer simple questions like "how to I set the start time on the ChromeCast". The documentation has not changed at all, and it's still as incomplete as before.

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