control point for android that can chromecast

[adrian]

My initial effort was using BubbleUPNP Server to convert the chromecast devices to openhome. I tried to control with Kazoo. Kazoo crashes fairly often. And BubbleUPNP Server crashes maybe weekly. The author said something about a problem with how it ran on the NAS and there was no fix. Response is also very slow so it can be hard to tell if it's working but slow or crashed.

I figured I would try abandoning openhome and just use chromecast to see if that would do what I needed. I bought a licence to BubbleUPNP. I think BubbleUPNP worked for a day and then it quit working. I rebooted all the chromecasts and the tablet where BubbleUPNP runs and restarted BubbleUPNP and I still couldn't connect to chromecast devices, though openhome was still working via bubbleupnp server, somewhat more erratically than before. I was getting BubbleUPNP messages like "Action failed not connected to google play services for casting" or "google cast connection error NETWORK_ERROR".

I recently discovered that restarting bubbleupnp server by clicking "restart" on its web interface may not actually restart it. It seems that restarting it in the NAS OS interface has improved things. I can again access chromecast from BubbleUPNP. I wonder if somehow BubbleUPNP server interferes with other uses of chromecast; perhaps I should turn it off while not using it. The BubbleUPNP author told me (based on log files) that there was some kind of deadlock. But Chromecast was working for other apps even while it wouldn't for BubbleUPNP.

I haven't tried any other UPNP/DNLA devices. I don't have any other devices.