No Chromecasts listed in menu

[WACOMalt]

My PC is on the same network as 6 Chromecast devices (2 video, 4 audio). None show up in the right click menu on the tray icon.

PC is Windows 10 Pro x64
I have registered the audiosniffer.dll as admin sucessfully. The icon shows up in the tray but only has "Close" as an option.

Where can I find logs to post?

[jgrigg]

+1

[yswon824]

@WACOMalt I also had a same problem on my desktop. however there was no trouble in my laptop.
I would like to resolve that trouble on my desktop.
if you already cleared this trouble, then please let me know

young (youngswon@gmail.com)

[CDeLeon94]

Having the same issue as well

[doridave]

Same here,

Ran the register_run_as_admin.bat first then running audio-cast.exe

`F:\AudioCast>
"F:\AudioCast\resources\bin\driver\win32\RegSvrEx.exe" /c "F:\AudioCast\resources\bin\driver\win32\audio_sniffer.dll"
F:\AudioCast\resources\bin\ffmpeg\win32\ffmpeg
F:\AudioCast
Example app listening at http://192.168.1.100:16612
Selected Audio Device:
Spawned Ffmpeg with command: ffmpeg -list_devices true -f dshow -i dummy pipe:1

VIRTUAL DEVICE FOUND`

Stops there... Icon on taskbar just shws a close option.
Exact same behaviour when the folder is on the desktop.

Normal casting via chrome works all my devices and groups are visible.

Really looking forward to this app, it's a brilliant idea, I hope there's a workaround.

[Louisvillian]

I'm having the same problem with a Windows10 64 bit running on the Lenovo laptop I use as my media center. "Close"is the only option. I'd really like for this to get fixed as I bought and installed two Chromecasts for having multiple room synced music streaming. I can cast Pandora via Chrome browser, but it's tedious to set up casting for each session and I'd like to stream from my music collection using Windows Media Player.

[aiac]

Same here - only close option in tray context menu. I tried to do something like this but I was too angry that I had to compile bonjure to use mdns-js library (didnt want ot install whole Visual Studio). Maybe this is the issue? The lack of Bonjuour installed in my Windows?

[Louisvillian]

Well, a reboot "fixed" the issue for me allowing me to select from odd-named chromecasts, but... there's an absolutely horrible time lag between my two sets of speakers in adjoining rooms using different chromecasts. Also, after an hour or so, the music stops and a java script error repeatedly pops up. So for now, it's back to casting Pandora from a browser (requiring set-up every time) and bypassing Chromecast altogether for Windows Media Player.

[SamDel]

I had the same issue here and did some testing. I found out that my router was blocking the mDns packages that are used to search for ChromeCast devices.

I looked how Google Chrome finds my device, it isn't using mDns but SSDP.
Then I changed the code to also support SSDP to search for devices, and it works for me now!

Here's the code changes, I hope someone can add them to the project:
lib.zip
package.zip

[matbee-eth]

Huh, I thought I already added SSDP support. I guess not. I'll add this in.

[SamDel]

Thanks. Here's some new code, I changed two things:

-there was a bug in passing the friendlyName / device name
-in the SSDP/uPnp service description I checked the modelName to filter out ChromeCast devices but checking the deviceType is better

lib.zip

[Kungergely]

I had the same issue, but on Windows 7 (64-bit). Running register_run_as_admin.bat didn't help either. Only after restarting my laptop and running register_run_as_admin.bat again (as an admin) did my Chromecast Audio device show up in the context menu after starting audio-cast.exe.

[casperleenheer]

I had the same issue, I only needed to open my firewall for the chromecast

[FuzzkingCool]

I'm having this same issue in Windows 10 x64 1709 fall update, with no chromecast devices showing up and only the close button.

• I have run the bat file.
• I have installed Bonjour.
• I have tried both on my desktop and in the c: root.
• There is nothing in the appdata/Roaming folder
• I have tried replacing the lib.js and the package.json with the ones from this thread.

No go. Any hints? Would love to have this running!
Thanks for sharing your work!

[FuzzkingCool]

Testing with a wifi usb, I verified the issue is with a LAN connected computer. I was able to see my chromecast and google home when I connected over wifi.

Seems that here are multiple tickets surrounding this issue...