I am trying to find a Chromecast solution, whether I write it myself in macOS/Swift, or there is something already in the works. I came across the Chromecast SDK, but I see it only support Android and iOS. Has anyone had any success porting to a macOS app? I'm interested in a Chromecast solution because the devices are relatively inexpensive considering other wireless HDMI devices out there.
I am an entertainer and my goal would be to replace my HDMI cable with a wireless solution to extend my display (not mirroring the main display on my MacBook Air) to multiple TV's (up to four) for my app, which displays a game log, advertising, and some minor animation for game winners and losers that my patrons see.
Any recommended first steps to coming up with a Chromecast solution, or should I continue looking in other directions?
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I need some help because I don´t know how to approach this challenge.
I want to build a device, that's receiving a Bluetooth audio signal and is forwarding it to a Bluetooth speaker. It´s also running some algorithms with the audio data and also simultaneously sending results via UDP to a different device.
I already thought about using two or three ESP32s, using one with an extra Bluetooth module, or searching for a whole different MCU with Bluetooth 5.0 or higher and Wifi 5GHz. But I don´t know approach the best is, or maybe a completely different one.
Some context, why we want to do it:
We want to create a real-time light show, based on the current playing song. It is already working for PC, but also want to make it accessible for phone users. Sadly there is no way to capture the internal audio on iPhone or Android phones. Our Idea to make the music sync with the phone possible is that you are connected with the phone via Bluetooth to our "sync box" which is then connected to the speaker via Bluetooth or AUX. The "sync box" is running our algorithms for creating the light shows and then sending the data to the microcontrollers from the light strips.
So maybe you have an idea how we can sync the lights to the music completely differently or how I can approach the challenge with Bluetooth.
Any help is highly appreciated.
Thanks a lot.
I am aware of MOTO G first version has bluetooth issues.
Background:
My app scans for beacons in the vicinity. The app works great on all Android phones except Motorola Moto G, 1st version with Android 5.1. On this phone, it finds all the beacons except one and the scanning is pretty fast as well. However, with this specific beacon (skybeacon), it only detects first packet and after that it takes forever to find this specific beacon while finding others. A simple conclusion is this specification beacon has issues, which might be true. However, it becomes more interesting from here.
To understand this more, I downloaded other BLE scanners from play store. When I used "BLE Analyzer" from bluevoid, it captures this beacon perfectly. I can see RSSI changing as I move the beacon and it is pretty fast. Once I push BLE Analyzer to background and check our app, surprisingly our app works now. I repeated this, 20/20 times my app captures this specific beacon as long as BLE Analyzer is pushed into background (by pressing home button). If I restart or uninstall or wont open BLE Analyzer at all, my app wont capture this specific beacon.
Possible explanations:
For good or bad this specific beacon is advertising in one channel and the default scanning on this specific phone is having a mismatch. If this is in the right direction, then how to change default scanning channels through app?
This phone might have an integrated chip for wifi, bluetooth and 3G, which might be true. When I disable wifi, I do not see any changes in behavior. When I disable data (3G, not 4G on this), it some times (2 out of 10) start capturing the skybeacon. Again 2 out of 10 times is not a repeatable solution.
Any thoughts?
I know Microsoft doesn't allow the streaming of music from phones to Windows 8 PC's or the use of the PC as hands free, but has anyone found a way around this yet?
Are there any modified drivers or ways to modify the current drivers?
Any help would be appreciated.
www.bluesoleil.com offer a custom bluetooth driver that will make your pc show up as a Bluetooth headset to other devices. It will also allow you to choose which audio device the audio is repeated repeat to.
Product is not free but is the only solution is managed to find after half an afternoon looking. Works great as well.
I'm currently working on a project for an interactive visitor centre in Laguna Beach, CA.
There are many touchscreen devices around the space, which we are developing some cool software for, however one of the client requests is to allow visitors to transfer image, pdf and video files from an interactive coffee table touchscreen onto their phone.
The client has seen this on YouTube/CES etc.. You know, where someone puts a phone on a the interactive surface and then magically swipes images onto the phone from the screen.
Of course, if the visitor had a custom app on their phone, and was already on the same WiFi this would not be so much of a problem. I suspect this is what happens on these magic demos that we see.
In our situation, we don't want the visitor to download an app really, we just want the easiest solution and experience for the visitor. We have a public WiFi available to us, and we can install an NFC device on the touchscreen and the touchscreen also has bluetooth.
My ideal scenario would be for the user to pop their NFC enabled phone on the table, the table recognises it, pairs with BT or WiFi and away we go! I'm not sure how practical this is though having researched around. Clearly thats not going to work on an iPhone. I don't mind a couple of mechanisms i.e. one for Android/other NFC phones and one for iPhone.
Does anyone have any experience of this kind of thing and suggestions of how to handle it?!
Here's a mock up of our 32" Coffee Table touchscreen just for some context
Thanks for reading through and having a think :-)
I know that there is standardized way to pair Bluetooth device using NFC tag. I think this is the best solution for you. The authority that is standardizing this format is called NFC Forum. You can find more info about the topic in this document: Bluetooth Secure Simple Pairing Using NFC
Is there a way to change flash players audio output device? if not, is there a swf player who has this possibility? Thanks!
I had an issue until a few minutes ago regarding this.
Two audio devices are available to my XP box: an iMic USB audio I/O device, in which I have permanently plugged my desktop speakers; and a pair of USB headphones with microphone that I plug in occasionally.
The USB headset would take precedence over the USB iMic for applications because apps appear to access the last device plugged in to a USB port. With this in mind, here was my issue:
I would be listening to some Internettings on my USB headset.
Later, I would want to use my desktop speakers for the Internettings.
This entailed unplugging my headset, shutting down Firefox and opening it up again. Because the desktop speakers are considered the most recently plugged in device, they would be default for plugins.
This is damned annoying, I said to myself, and decided a little hacker mode was in order.
Keeping Firefox open, I used Task Manager to kill the "plugin-container.exe" process. This showed a crash screen on any Flash Player applet in Firefox. Then I unplug the headset, and reload the Web page with the applet. Without restarting Firefox, Flash will then play through my desktop speakers.
If I wish to listen on the headset again, I plug the headset in, kill plugin-container.exe, and reload the page. Wham.
For as rare as I intend to switch audio devices, this will cover up part of the mess Adobe left.
I am 99% sure that setting the audio device used by the flash player is something you would need to do on an OS level. You can change the device that flash uses for microphone and video input from the player's settings, but I don't think you can change audio output.
I have found a solution, at least for the Firefox browser, to direct HTML5 audio to a specific audio device:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chaudev/
Note: this is a new Firefox addon waiting to be reviewed developed by a friend of mine.
I have been waiting for this for years.
I wanted to use this when my wife is seeing YouTube on her Chrome browser and me seeing anything like Coursera online MOOC lectures (FF) on the TV which is connected to the pc. I wanted to hear my classes on the headset and my wife on the speakers for YouTube.
I have 2 mouses (one for me, wireless) and have installed a neat program called TeamPlayer which gives multiple cursors (each cursor for each mouse).
So I have now literally the capability of 2 persons working on 1 pc.
And on top of that it works seamlessly with "Enounce Myspeed" for speeding up the video lectures' playback.