It’s been a long way since this project first started, and development has come mostly in small but intense bursts of productivity. However, that is now behind us, as we are commited to work on this project more consistently as much as our time allows.

The server has been completly rewritten from scratch in Typescript, taking advantage of all the lessons we learned from the previous versions.
For now, the application does not support plugins, although that is a very high priority for us, to allow each user to adapt the application to their choices.

The code is publicly available on Github, as well as instructions on how to install and use the media center. Currently, it is only advised to be used by people with good experience with web development, altough that will certainly change when we create a more intuitive install process and fine-tune the user experience of the application.

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About one year ago, at the end of October, 2015, I bought a Chromecast. Chromecast is great if you want to stream YouTube or Netflix from your phone to your TV, but soon it was obvious that the same thing does not apply to when you want to stream local video files from your computer. This flaw is made even more evident when compared with the ease-of-use that a media center system like Kodi provides the user.

So, together with my brother, we started coding in our spare time. The first version of the software used Kodi’s web interface, specifically a modified version of Chorus that allowed to switch at runtime between controlling Kodi or Chromecast. To control the chromecast device, we coded a barebones http NodeJs server that served media files, both video and subtitles, and controlled a hardcoded chromecast device.

We’ve come a long way, and with V2, we want to push things even further. Here’s a list why.

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