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Karim
Karim

Reputation: 126

Can't load cast_framework.js on Chrome Sender

So a couple of month back I wrote a test sender to get some experience with Cast senders. It worked fine and I could send images and videos to my Chromecasts.

I now need to create a custom receiver and I wanted to use my old sender to test my receiver code. However, my sender doesn't work anymore eventhough I didn't change anything since then.

The errors i'm now getting in Chrome's console are the following:

  • GET file://www.gstatic.com/cast/sdk/libs/sender/1.0/cast_framework.js net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND

  • Uncaught ReferenceError: cast is not defined
    at window.__onGCastApiAvailable (script.js:84)
    at chrome.cast.cb (cast_sender.js:99)

When I look at the "Network" tab I can see that the cast_framework.js file failed to load after 22s.

I then tried to use the sample on Google's Github to see if it was my sender that was at fault but I get the same error.

I also can reach the devices with the Cast button in Chrome's menu.

What is going on with that file? Is it my browser that has a problem? Is it my devices?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5153

Answers (2)

Karim
Karim

Reputation: 126

So the problem was the following:
As you can see the browser was looking for the file with file://. This happens because I launched my HTML file locally so the url in the browser was file:///home/.../index.html and I guess when it loads the framework file it guesses that it has to use file:// too instead of html://.
Someone told me that I should serve the file from a server so I made a brief Node server with express.static to serve the file and it then worked again when I loaded the page via localhost:4000.

I still don't know how it worked a couple of month ago but I guess I was just lucky in some way.

Upvotes: 3

Danee
Danee

Reputation: 322

Upon checking, this file below is visible:

www.gstatic.com/cast/sdk/libs/sender/1.0/cast_framework.js

You might want to try putting these codes inside your head tag in your html file that calls "script.js":

Check this Github Guide

Include the cast_sender.js tag

Add the script tag to your HTML page

<script type="text/javascript" src="www.gstatic.com/cast/sdk/libs/sender/1.0/cast_framework.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.gstatic.com/cv/js/sender/v1/cast_sender.js"></script>

Upvotes: 2

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