What is Matter Casting? New AirPlay rival explained
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I’m curious what people’s thoughts are about Matter. This is the first I’m hearing of it.

I’ve been trying to find a way to replace my old Chromecast Ultra (because Google), but I really like having that little cast button show up in apps, even on the phones of guests. But from what I can tell, Google killed this functionality on open alternatives (ex. Raspicast) with a lockdown to the Chromecast spec.

I’m hopeful that Matter could be a way to have my devices cast streams to each other in a standardized way that wouldn’t require me to rely on Google/Apple/Amazon/etc. Maybe even Newpipe could get in on the action?

I don’t know how it will work, or if this “Connected Standards Alliance” (which is apparently used to be the ZigBee Alliance, also news to me) will still have to greenlight specific devices despite it being “open”, which would rule out Newpipe. I would assume the official YouTube apps will be particularly resistant to supporting Matter.

Anyone have any experience here? Has anyone else successfully replaced their media device with something open that also works with the casting button in apps?

  • Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The company says services like Plex, Pluto TV, Sling TV, Starz, and ZDF will introduce support later this year.

    I always had the impression that plex was really slow when it comes to implementing new features. I’m definitely looking forward to a chromecast alternative though. Being locked into googles DNS gives me problems due to it prohibiting streaming from my local server via hostname.

    I really hope it will be implemented in Jellyfin as well since I can’t get my installation to work with Chromecast at all (most likely again due to the DNS issue)