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Will there be a Chromecast Receiver Emulator or an alternative application that will be used as a receiver for development?

Will there be any emulator for the Chromecast receiver itself? Or perhaps I could launch an additional Chrome window on my laptop, which behaves the same as on the receiver itself. In this way, developers can test their sender applications without actually having a physical receiver device.

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Jul 24 '13 at 22:04
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Update: our last effort is a full v2 chrome processor receiver, dubbed YouMap Chromecast Receiver, works great on Android devices, including FireTV: http://forum.xda-developers.com/hardware-hacking/chromecast/app-youmap-chromecast -receiver-android-t3161851

We just released the chromotherapy emulator on iOS, freely available from the App Store:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rplay/id692511073?mt=8

Within a few days, to emulate Chromecast inside rPlay, finally it can find rPlay (on Raspberry Pi) as a chrome device and can send youtube URL redirection. still a long way, but it seems possible.

Attached screenshot of Youtube on Nexus 7, the Chromecast button is displayed, when you click on it, rPlay will be displayed as a device. enter image description here

Additional information about rPlay: http://www.vmlite.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&Itemid=158&func=view&catid=23&id=10991

In September we will release chrome program emulators for windows / Linux / Mac / android / iOS.

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Jul 29 '13 at 4:50
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This project is in early development. Youtube works, at least.

https://github.com/dz0ny/leapcast

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Jul 29 '13 at 2:07 on
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None seem to be provided, but this should be possible, possibly as a Chrome extension.

Interesting Facts: A ChromeCast-compatible receiver should respond to DIAL Service Discovery requests sent through SSDP. Assuming that he correctly identified himself and responded to DIAL commands, he would also need to open a WebSocket and respond to commands sent from the sender, which are serialized JSON arrays containing an application namespace string and an application-specific JSON object, as the first and second arrays of elements. The recipient, at a minimum, would need to respond to two application namespaces ("cm" and "ramp" for MediaProtocolCommand) in order to be compatible with the SDK.

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Jul 25 '13 at 6:39
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Another (at an early stage) is CheapCast.

CheapCast is an Android app (no root required) whose goal is to emulate the ChromeCast Dongle. This allows your Android device to act as the target (1st screen) for ChromeCast-enabled applications (e.g. YouTube, Google Music).

Application: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=at.maui.cheapcast
Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ktmrXgj9qQ
Source: https://github.com/mauimauer/cheapcast (not yet available)

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Aug 12 '13 at 15:51
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You can launch Chrome and install the Chromecast receiver emulator extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cr-cast/acmfmindblghbicdipoakcolegkcddbk

If you want to understand its operation, you can unpack CRX and view the code.

Update 2015: CR-cast no longer works with the current Chromecast API.

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May 21 '14 at 12:58
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Check out this site:

http://hackaday.com/2013/08/02/leapcast-emulates-chromecast-in-your-chrome-browser/

Here's the project:

https://github.com/dz0ny/leapcast

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