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Chromecast, Cheapcast and TV Sebastian Mauer GDG Aachen DevFest Brussels November 16th, 2013
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Is GoogleTV doomed? Will Chrome is in Chromecast? Learn how Google's Chromecast works on the inside.
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Chromecast, Cheapcast and TV
Sebastian Mauer GDG Aachen
DevFest Brussels November 16th, 2013
This Presentation contains QR-Codes
Who am I?Sebastian MauerGDG Aachen Co-Lead CS StudentSoftware Engineer I don’t work for Google…yet
Part I: Google TV
GoogleTV
• Google’s first attempt to „own“ the TV
• Introduced at Google I/O 2010
• First Device, x86-based Logitech Revue
• US only at launch
By the summer of 2012, the majority of the televisions you see in stores will
have Google TV embedded.- Eric Schmidt at LeWeb 2011
GoogleTV
http://9to5mac.com/2013/07/16/report-at-56-apple-tv-takes-majority-of-streaming-device-marketshare-in-2012/
Three Generations1. Generation, late 2010 based on Android 3.2
2. Generation, Summer 2012 based on Android 3.2
3. Generation, 2013 probably on Android 4.2.2
GoogleTV: Pros
• Part of the Android-family.
• Deploying apps is easy™ (via Play Store)
• Re-use most of your existing Android code
GoogleTV: Cons
• Does not evolve as fast as mainline Android
• Not many devices sold (500,000 - 1,000,000)
• Late start in the European Union (2012)
Help me Android. You're my only hope
Part II: ChromeCastaka Google Cast Devices
ChromeCast: Hardware
• Model Number: H2G2-42
• It’s not based on ChromeOS
• It’s based on Android and Chromium
• It’s not going to kill GoogleTV
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ChromeCast: Pros
• Very cheap hardware (35$)
• Very easy to use (My Grandma can do it™)
• Web Developers can easily write „Receiver“-Apps
• Simple Protocol Stack
ChromeCast: Cons
• Google Cast SDK is still a Developer Preview(read: things will break, things will change)
• You have to manually whitelistall your apps with Google
• It’s not officially released outside the U.S.
WebTech
UDP
ChromeCast: Protocol Stack• SSDP (Simple Service Discovery Protocol)
• DIAL (DIscovery And Launch)
• RAMP (Remote Application Media Protocol)
• HTML5 & JS (You know that this is)
• WebSockets (Bi-directional communication Browser<>WebApp)
• WebRTC (Web Real Time Communication)
ChromeCast: How does it work?
ChromeCast: How it works!1. Advertises ChromeCast
using SSDP (UDP Broadcast)
!2. Discovers Endpoints using DIAL
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3. Requests App and opens WebSocket connection
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4. CC fetches HTML5 based 1st Screen App (opens WebSocket)
ChromeCast: How it works! II!!!!
5. Sends request to play media
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6. HTML5 app receivesmedia request (WebSocket) starts fetching content.
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7. Media is downloaded/streamed by ChromeCast device
ChromeCast: DIAL
• Protocol published by Netflix
• Uses SSDP for Service Announcement
• DIAL REST WebService for exchanging Device capabilities and controlling
ChromeCast: DIAL
SearchSSDP
DiscoverySSDP
CapabilitiesHTTP
StartHTTP
ChromeCast: Sender App
• Cast SDK available for
• Needs Whitelisting with Google
<html> <script src="https://www.gstatic.com/cast/js/receiver/1.0/cast_receiver.js"> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> ! var receiver = new cast.receiver.Receiver( 'App ID', [cast.receiver.RemoteMedia.NAMESPACE], "", 5); var remoteMedia = new cast.receiver.RemoteMedia(); remoteMedia.addChannelFactory( receiver.createChannelFactory(cast.receiver.RemoteMedia.NAMESPACE)); ! receiver.start(); ! window.addEventListener('load', function() { var elem = document.getElementById('vid'); remoteMedia.setMediaElement(elem); }); !</script> <body> <video id="vid" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;height:100%;width:100%" /> </body> </html>
ChromeCast: Receiver App
ChromeCast is not just for „streaming“ content.
It’s a remote controllable Chrome Browser running on your TV.
Part III: CheapCast*
* includes shameless plug
CheapCast all the Droids• Is an app that emulates a
ChromeCast (or Google Cast) device on almost any Android Device
• Implements DIAL, RAMP/WS Proxy-ing
• Does not care if your id is whitelisted or not.
• Written by me
CheapCast: Components
WebView
SSDP Service
DIAL REST WS
ChromeCast API Ext
1st Screen Output
Receiver App
Sender App
CheapCast: Use Cases
• Start developing ChromeCast apps without owningan actual ChromeCast Device
• Turn one of your old Android-devices into aChromeCast Dongle (connect via MHL<->HDMI)
• Cast content from your Android Smartphoneto your Android Tablet just for the hell of it.
CheapCast: Use Cases
Google Music
YouTube
CheapCast
CheapCast: OpenSource
https://github.com/mauimauer/cheapcast Licensed under the Apache 2.0 License
Upcoming Feature:
Tab Casting!Made possible by Chromium
Demo
CheapCast: Get it now
Q&A
