I am trying to write a simple chrome app to play a sequence of online pictures on my chromecast device.
I have looked at some examples, but could't find anything which I could tweak around to get the simple behavior i needed. Maybe someone here could help, by providing directions or advise on getting started with developing something like that for chromecast.
UPDATE:
To give you a better idea, about the specifics, let me add some more details to my requirements.
It needs to be controlled from chrome
I want to pass a playlist with 10s-100s of images so it can slide them in circles.
After receiving playlist chromecast device should be able to continue on its own, without continuously asking for next image.
This is actually similar to backdrop feature Google is planning to introduce, but I wanted to write something myself.
Thanks
If you don't want to develop your own Cast receiver, then you can use the media namespace channel and the Styled Media Receiver to display a photo at a time:
https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/styled_receiver
You will have to add the logic to advance from photo to photo in your sender app.
If you are willing to develop your own custom receiver, then you can start with this Cast sample app:
https://github.com/googlecast/CastHelloText-android
It allows you to send messages to a custom receiver. You can use that to send the URLs of the photos and then you can add JavaScript logic in the receiver to play a slideshow.
Just to let you know, I have tried various options and ended up writing custom receiver and Chrome sender applications. This was really straightforward and exactly what I wanted.
See the links above for guidance and also examples here.
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So I'm Working on a NodeJs project and am wondering if there is a way to get audio from Spotify Like you Input a song URL and It plays the track, I've looked all around and can only find stuff for the web browser, I don't know if they even have a way. If there is any info about this please let me know.
You'd have to make calls through the Spotify API.
You can read more about the API here: Spotify API Documentation
This is a node.js specific library that you may also want to check out:
thelinmichael's node.js Spotify API Library
The answer provisioned and marked as correct is wrong.
The only way you can extract audio is by using a Windows VM, connect via RDP. Run a script to play Spotify programatically and record the audio.
Since this is the only solution. It is not possible to query data from Spotify.
i'm new in the chat bot programming . I would like to do exactly the command "ok google, take a picture", that the android open the camera and in 3 second take the pic. Dialogflow is a service from google, so I thinking that there are some library with some example of this, or if not, how I need to search to put this command in my action ?
PS: I'm making a location and opinion action that receive from the user the place and the opinion about the place, so i would like to ask if the user want to take a pic from the place using this, but a don't know how a search this!
Unfortunately, there is currently no library and no direct support for this type of thing. The Assistant does not give Action developers access to the camera. In fact, most of the work your Action does is on a cloud-based server, not on the device itself.
You can, in some cases, use something like the Android Link helper, but this requires the user to have installed your app on their phone, and doesn't quite do what it sounds like you want.
In Blogger I am trying to recreate the audio feature used in this web site http://www.talkenglish.com/lessondetails.aspx?ALID=2001 where you click on text and hear the audio (an mp3 file) instantly. When I embed identical code into a Blogger page and click it, it wants to play the mp3 file by kick starting Windows Media Player. I don't want a solution like SoundCloud that creates visible player controls. Can anyone suggest a solution. I am hoping to use it to create an online amateur speech therapy package to support some voluntary work I do in this area.
Thanks
That site is using a file called audioplayer.js. To be honest, I am not exactly sure if that's custom built or not. You can look at the source for that here. You have a bunch of options to get the functionality you're looking for. A couple are below.
You can use SoundManager2 which is a very robust JS Sound plugin.
You can also use HTML5's built in <audio> element. You can read more about that here
I'm sorry if this question has already been asked, but how do you get a playlist to show up inside an index.html for a Spotify App? I've looked all over, and I couldn't find a clear way to do this. I consulted the api-tutorial app and I tried looking over the API Docs. Am I just missing it? I experimented with but that didn't work either.
Also, aside from that, is there a way for only single tracks from the app user's library be dragged into a box to be added to the displayed playlist in real time? Or at least dragged into the box and the data be populated in some type of playlist in my personal profile at least? Or otherwise?
Thanks very much for your help!
Edit: My mistake. Looking at the documentation for Spotify Apps API, the Player class has the property track which gives the current playing track. The above URL shows how to use the observer interface to be notified when it changes.
What's the simplest way to setup a chrome extension to record audio from the microphone?
I see there is a working experimental speech input API but how come you don't have access to the recorded file? Seems like hooking up into that should be simple enough, as it's a step earlier in the process, no? Especially as there is also a text-to-speech API, so you could effectively record into text and then have the computer speak it back out, but unless you want a standard voice, how lame, redundant and prone to error is that?
Then there seem to be flash solutions like this but how can I use that in a chrome extension without having to setup anything server-side? (since I don't actually need to send anything to a server--it's all local and client-side)
Is NPAPI a possibility? Is there such a plugin ready-made?
Don't know of other possible alternatives (HTML5 isn't ready yet, it seems) but I welcome anything functional and simple to implement and hook into a chrome extension.
Finally a native solution appeared: Introducing getUserMedia
You cannot use the speech input API, since it will record only the microphone. Okay, you can grab the speakers like that, but it's clearly not the solution.
Using a NPAPI plugin is a solution. You'll can identify the sound made by a particular tab and after record that source, but it is no longer web dev.