v0.10.8

This release includes some small changes:

• Ensure executables point to the correct module
• Support for BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds via PyChromecast
• Upgrade PyChromecast to 9.2.0
• Renaming and refactoring

You can install this version like so:

python3 -m pip install cast_control==0.10.8

v0.10.7

This release includes some new changes:

• Fix error where volume level changes on the device aren't kept in sync with cast_control
• Fix YouTube URL detection regression
• Use casefold for caseless name comparisons with -n/--name option
• Check that cast_control/castctl are always pointing to existing endpoints
• Refactoring

You can install this version like so:

python3 -m pip install cast_control==0.10.7

v0.10.6

This release includes one fix:

• Fix launching from cast_control and castctl executables

You can install this version like so:

python3 -m pip install cast_control==0.10.6

v0.10.5

This release introduces new changes:

• Add -V/--version flag to display version number
• Add -L/--license flag to display license, copyright and author information
• Add GitHub link to help text
• Show help text when invoked without any options or commands
• Redefine criteria for MediaPlayer2.Player.CanPlay support
• Further caching to speed up functionality dependent on disk I/O
• Use typing.Protocol and add typing_extensions dependency for support on Python 3.7
• Update README
• Refactoring

You can install this version like so:

python3 -m pip install cast_control==0.10.5

v0.10.3

This release introduces a few changes:

• Fix launching via connect command
• Use concurrent I/O at launch for faster startup times
• Simplify parsing of media and app titles

You can install this version like so:

python3 -m pip install cast_control==0.10.3

v0.10.2

This release introduces three small changes:

• Further optimize disk access and caching for faster launch times
• Ensure logging configuration isn't set twice, potentially leaking service logs to the console
• Rename the service show command to service log

You can install this version like so:

python3 -m pip install cast_control==0.10.2

v0.10.1

This release introduces some small changes:

• Optimize disk access and caching for faster launch times and less I/O
• Add information about castctl to README
• Add version and author information as per PEP 396
• Refactoring

You can install this version like so:

python3 -m pip install cast_control==0.10.1

v0.10.0

This release introduces some new changes:

• Add service reconnect command to restart the running background service
• Add service show command to print the service logs
• Support upgrading the .desktop files cast_control generates
• Create user state, data, and log directories
• Cache arguments supplied to service connect
• Save service logs to file that is replaced at service launch
• Show log file location with service show
• Handle errors when launching background service
• Check if service is running when running service disconnect command
• Upgrade dependencies and remove unused dependencies
• Update README

You can install this version like so:

python3 -m pip install cast_control==0.10.0

v0.9.4-release

This is the first release of cast_control. In addition to the new name, there are a few big changes:

• A new command-line interface with the connect and service commands
• Launch and manage cast_control as a background service with the service command
• cast_control and the shorter castctl commands replace chromecast_mpris on the command-line
• Target Python 3.7+ and drop support for 3.6

You can install this version like so:

python3 -m pip install cast_control==0.9.4

v0.8.3

This release has a few small changes:

• Fix support for default thumbnail images
• Reduce image file sizes. The wheel package on PyPI is now half of the size it was before.
• Back end refactoring

You can install this version like so:

python3 -m pip install chromecast_mpris==0.8.3