Raspicast

This used to be an excellent app for streaming video to a large flat screen TV, easily deserving 5 stars. I even dedicated a raspberry for this sole purpose and had no problems whatsoever - if staying with Stretch'. On 'Buster' the volume control doesn't work. Sadly, many YouTube videos are now impossible to stream with this app. I'm not sure why...?

When, as I imagine many will know, using a Pi Zero with the intention of streaming videos, say from YouTube, is useless because of the Ram capacity on its board. However, using Raspicast to directly cast from the app on my phone to the pi zero connected to my 21inch tv it works, and has a crystal clear picture and no buffering issues or freezes so far - spectacular eh. So that is my use of this app. Nevertheless, one star is lacking from 5 because it would be nice to have a few more functions.

Worked after I switched the audio output to ALSA — by default in Settings > Audio Options sets HDMI, but my speakers where connected to the audio jack so that needed to be changed. Hoping to see further development and improvements. Also has the bonus of being able to play files on the remote box.

Great app, but it would be better if you added screen mirroring. Anyone who is having trouble casting pictures, you have to install some additional software on the raspberry pi. You have to install the omx image viewer, there is a link in the description.

All features work except YouTube casting, which works partially - plays all videos that have all latin title, but as soon as you try to play a video with non-latin characters (with diacritics, in cyrillic etc) or even quote symbol - it breaks. I hope this gets fixed soon. Other than that it is a great app!

works well with youtube videos. Has some problems with YouTube streams. It would be nice if you could share videos from other platforms as well (using youtube-dl). Smartphone screen sharing could also be an interesting feature. In any case, good work.

Works well for everything from YouTube, except music and songs. Music is the main reason I installed it, and they don't seem to stream. I tried other things, including peppa pig, and they worked. A fix would bring this to 5 stars, making it easily one of the best streaming tools for pi.

Nice app. You can only control the volume if the app is open unlike cromacast. It would be nice to adjust the volume even during screen saver on. Maybe update this function in an update in the future.

This app is great with my pi works well, but has occasional chrashes(on my pi) for no reason, and the app sadily doesnt detect files in my phone's "Music", "Movies" and my snaptube folder, but it detects my whatsapp's video/audio files. PLEASE fix this, and y'all get a 5 star

Amazing performance. I have Synology NAS which has been mounted to raspberry Pi and this app loads the files and plays is to my Samsung TV which is connected to Yamaha amplifier without any lag. Trust me this is superb. Only Add on feature I would like is HDMI-CEC support.

Idea and implementation are very good ,few YouTube videos are not playing ,please fix this issue .full screen view is super. If possible PlZ try to add whole android screen cast instaead of casting files, like Google Chrome cast

Unless I'm missing something, you must reconfigure every time you want to connect to a new receiver. I plan to have at least 2, probably 3. Do I have to clone the app to connect to another receiver?

Very good. Fast, video and sound are in sync, very good quality. But I can't find a way to show greek subtitles..

Works perfectly! Been using it for years, and it keeps working, regardlesd of Raspian and Android versions. Even got it working without issues on 64bit ubuntu for the Pi.

Unfortunately omxplayer is outdated and doesn't work with the most recent updates of raspbian, which makes this app useless. I would be happy to use it again when finding an alternative player

No doubt, its the best app for casting from mobile to raspberry pi. Absolutely love the application. It would be even better if it could cast from other video sources as well.

Should mention that public keys need to be RSA or DSA and need to be stored in PEM format. Even better would be an error message in the App itself. Could only figure it out using adb and entering the name of the exception into Google.

I would love to see it as android media player, so that I can use it to open media and forward it subsequently When sharing web link to the app, it doesn't forward it to the pi Also documentation doesn't mention custom commands and how do they work

A config to setup the media folder inside raspberry could be good, listing each folder each time to navegate to the videos folder is too slow, even some times refresh never happens. Also write the path instead of do the navegation

Worked straight away after following some instructions. Would be cool if there were media controls in the lock screen or as a notification.

Good app, however, there is a bug with any kind of playback. It gets cut short at the end.

great app! works wothout having to set anything up. the only problem is, that the volume control on the rpi4 doesnt work live

Such a useful utility for playing media on my Pi from my phone, although I would like to see it developed a little more... Wish I could sort directories differently, support for backends other than omxplayer (namely vlc on RPi4).

The app works well for playing local videos. However I can't figure out how to use a srt subtitles file

Amazing app. I would be interested to have an option to use vlc instead of omx since omx does not connect to my Bluetooth speaker... this app is a gem

Amazing. It just worked. Now i need to find more apps that stream via raspicast. E.g. some proprietary sources like amazon music dislike streaming unless it is alexa.

Works great on pie but if you have a phone that runs CFW on ICS then forget it. Will not display Cast tab can not stream from my sd card but it's ok with youtube.

Thank you for this app. Edit: Damnit! After the last update the app doesn't work anymore for me...I shouldn't have updated it.

Good app. Can you please make an option for sending an arbitrary command such as youtube-dl so that I can play music alone