alexbk66 AK Google Cast Software Plugin for HS4

AK Google Cast This is an HS4 plugin for using Google Chromecast / Google Home devices as HomeSeer speech clients, monitoring and control of currently playing media, and sending Audio/Video media and Web-pages to Google Chromecast/Google Home devices. Upgrade available: Learn more. Main Features Automatically discovers Google Chromecast and Google Home devices on the network using mDNS (Windows) and Avahi DBus (Linux) ZeroConf technologies Creates HomeSeer Speaker Client for each discovered device to allow selection in TTS action Creates many HomeSeer devices for each Chromecast - Title, Artist, Album, Image, Volume, ContentID (clickable link), track position slider, etc. Selection between HomeSeer and Google Translate voices with language selection Event Action for sending media and webpages to Chromecast/Google Home, including currently playing media, i.e. open current Chromecast Backdrop image (my favorite) Many configuration options for each Chromecast/Google Home device HS devise to disable/enable TTS individually for each Google device HS Devices for controlling media playback, volume, etc. Support AI generated Neural voices - they sound very natural (i.e. Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure). Support custom local voice server (i.e. Coqui server) Included Software License Codes Requirements HomeSeer HS4-Powered System Compatible with Windows and Linux Links Installation Guide Support Forum