I've been using Jellyfin for probably a year or so, switching from Plex, and I've found it to be a clear upgrade in most regards. One regard where I find it a bit lacking though is the 'complete couch experience' - when sitting down on the couch to watch something, what I'd like to do is to have an app to select which media to play back, and then play the media back on my Chromecast.

Currently, this workflow is nominally supported using the Jellyfin client for Android, but it's far from ideal - the Now Playing-screen only occasionally shows up, and it frequently desyncs and becomes unusable after only a short amount of time, making controlling the playback an impossibility.

Does anyone have an alternative workflow that would better suit my needs?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

First I'd start with this:
You have a Chromecast model XYZ and have the issue of ABC.

Then we'd know if you have the AndroidTV version or the one version (the older models) that rely on your phone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I have one that is old enough to not run AndroidTV, but I'm upgrading to one that does after Christmas.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I made a service for this a while back:

https://github.com/MattMckenzy/Homehook

However, development of it has stopped in favor of v2, where I drop Chromecast support and instead focused on making a companion player service running on an htpc or rPi.

Let me know if you have any questions, I can try to help!