Nonetheless, I still believe that Chromecast functionality is essential for people switching to /e/, but this seems to work for now. I’ve added some screenshots to give you an idea. So maybe someone making the switch to /e/ that already has a Libreelec/Kodi setup might be helped with this. I’ll be testing in the coming weeks whether this is stable enough to replace my Chromecast with something I already had up and running. After, you’re still able to pause, stop and search from the player on your phone via such a remote app. But this week I discovered that you can browse these addons from your phone and then click to play them on your tv. I was aware that there were remote apps, like the official and the unofficial Yatse. Also, them working well was very depended on the Kodi theme used, and my preferred theme did not support it well.
#Newpipe chromecast tv
However, for me these addons never quite formed a good alternative, since I just really liked browsing in the app on my phone and then ‘casting’ it to the tv while being able to start and stop on my phone. I already had a unofficial Netflix addon and an addon called Retrospect which features all kinds of regional and national broadcasting, amongst others the Dutch NPO. It has all my media in libraries, but can also run so-called addons, apps for Kodi. For years, even before I had the Chromecast, I’ve had a little media machine running LibreElec, a mini os based on Linux with just Kodi. This week I’ve discovered that I’ve got quite a good alternative setup for the Chromecast for those that have a Kodi machine. Because that might be a good alternative, to still also get rid of Google and not need Chromecast support.
Does anyone know how important this issue does Roku support the NPO app? (From your name I got you might be Dutch, your profile confirmed this, so thought you might use NPO haha). For developpers it may really be worth looking into why this particular app works and whether workarounds may be possible based on this. Therefore I find it very interesting to see that the Bubble upnp app which speaks of, does indeed support Chromecast. But would rather not “solve” it this way.
I’ve not switched back to Lineage because I’ve also got a phone from work which I’m not allowed to root and flash anyway, so I’ve essentially still got Chromecast support. Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s terrible that this vendor lock in happens with the Chromecast and I’m really much more in favour of open source and open standards, but since some apps only support Chromecast, this is an important issue for the usability of /e/, nonetheless. For me, it would be the reason not to recommend /e/. And lack of Chromecast support is the major drawback for me. I’ve used /e/ since about… well, my original post here.
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