Using esp8266 to detect when my phone is casting to the tv

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Using esp8266 to detect when my phone is casting to the tv

By TheoZuffante
- Mon Nov 26, 2018 5:11 pm #79282 So... im new, and very lost but hopefully someone can help. Im trying to set up a system the detects whenever a device casts to the Comcast. I want to use that to trigger an ir sequence to change the input of my receiver. I've looked at other topics with no success. Any Ideas or links that can send me in the right direction?
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Re: Using esp8266 to detect when my phone is casting to the

By noodlesuk
- Fri Nov 30, 2018 8:23 am #79340 Not sure you would be able to intercept the packets with an ESP8266 unless you routed the traffic through it? Some info here on protocols

http://jhshi.me/2016/10/24/chromecast-w ... AE4mmj7RaQ

Might make more sense to try to monitor the HDMI stream and trigger some IR switching off that? Maybe somthing like this might help.

https://www.pulse-eight.com/p/104/usb-hdmi-cec-adapter
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Re: Using esp8266 to detect when my phone is casting to the

By TheoZuffante
- Sun Dec 02, 2018 10:01 pm #79374 [quote="noodlesuk"]Not sure you would be able to intercept the packets with an ESP8266 unless you routed the traffic through it? Some info here on protocols

Thanks, any idea if it would be possible to detect if any device makes a request to a certain URL without running the traffic through the esp?
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