mprince
Super Member
I have run a Squeezebox or equivalent (Squeezelite on PC's, Raspberry Pi and now a Pogoplug) for several years now. I picked up a Chromecast Audio when they came out more out of curiosity than anything else. Have enjoyed using it, but always go back to my Pogoplug as I can manage everything from one controller app on my tablet or phone (I got spoiled by the convenience of LMS and the many ways to control it).
Did a bit of searching today and found a solution where I can use my CCA as a device within LMS. I will try to describe it:
1. On the bottom of the LMS plug-in settings page, you can specify specific plug-ins to load, enter the following and press the "Apply" button:
2. Next you will have to go to the bottom of the plug-ins list and select the "Chromecast Bridge" plug in from the section titled "Phillippe's LMS Plugins" (Phillippe is a well-known Squeezebox developer, if you ever have browsed the Slimdevices forums you will see his name often). The plug-in is not visible in my screenshot because I had already selected it. I believe you have to press "Apply" again after you select the plug in:
3. Once the Chromecast Bridge is listed in your list of active plug-ins, you should go into the settings for it.
There will be a warning that there is no config file. Press "generate" to create one. Below is my screen after I did this.
Initially this picked up the other 4 CC's in my house, but not the CCA. I unplugged and replugged the CCA's power cord to reboot it, re-ran the config process, and it showed up. I then deactivated the non-audio Chromecasts simply because I did not want to see them in my list of available players in LMS.
4. That's all I did. Once I closed the settings and refreshed the LMS screen, my CCA shows up as an available player. Pretty cool!
Posting this mostly for those who are fans of the various Squeezebox platforms, hope this helps. I am going to continue playing around with the configuration as I am mostly using the defaults right now, will update this thread as warranted.
Did a bit of searching today and found a solution where I can use my CCA as a device within LMS. I will try to describe it:
1. On the bottom of the LMS plug-in settings page, you can specify specific plug-ins to load, enter the following and press the "Apply" button:
2. Next you will have to go to the bottom of the plug-ins list and select the "Chromecast Bridge" plug in from the section titled "Phillippe's LMS Plugins" (Phillippe is a well-known Squeezebox developer, if you ever have browsed the Slimdevices forums you will see his name often). The plug-in is not visible in my screenshot because I had already selected it. I believe you have to press "Apply" again after you select the plug in:
3. Once the Chromecast Bridge is listed in your list of active plug-ins, you should go into the settings for it.
There will be a warning that there is no config file. Press "generate" to create one. Below is my screen after I did this.
Initially this picked up the other 4 CC's in my house, but not the CCA. I unplugged and replugged the CCA's power cord to reboot it, re-ran the config process, and it showed up. I then deactivated the non-audio Chromecasts simply because I did not want to see them in my list of available players in LMS.
4. That's all I did. Once I closed the settings and refreshed the LMS screen, my CCA shows up as an available player. Pretty cool!
Posting this mostly for those who are fans of the various Squeezebox platforms, hope this helps. I am going to continue playing around with the configuration as I am mostly using the defaults right now, will update this thread as warranted.