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Did you clone the repo from github or did you just try to install it via npm?

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Did you clone the repo from github or did you just try to install it via npm?

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Did you clone the repo from github or did you just try to install it via npm?

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I have the same issue, tried both ways

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You have to do both, clone it via git, then install it with npm package manager, there is a great guide on lifehacker.com.

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just tried it, it plays local media well, but cannot stream torrent, where peerflix excels

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Sorry guys, still on holiday with no chromecast-able TV and nearly no internet. Will be back next week.
What always helps if you paste the DEBUG output in here.

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xat - How do you get the debug out put? --verbose?

ratson - Are you behind a vpn, cause I was unable to stream torrent/magnet links behind a vpn.

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nope, I was trying it at home, regular wifi connection, peerflix, popcorn
time, chromecast all working.

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 12:08 PM, JonathanAaron [email protected]
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xat - How do you get the debug out put? --verbose?

ratson - Are you behind a vpn, cause I was unable to stream torrent/magnet
links behind a vpn.

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Seems to me that there's something wrong with nodejs on Ubuntu at the moment. I just updated my Ubuntu (apt-get upgrade), and castnow broke there exactly with the described way. Node isn't even responding to --version:

$ castnow --help
$ cat helloworld.js
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
  res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
  res.end('Hello World\n');
    }).listen(1337, '127.0.0.1');
console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:1337/');
$ node helloworld.js
$ node --version
$ dpkg -s node
Package: node
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: oldlibs
Installed-Size: 38
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]>
Architecture: all
Version: 0.3.2-7.4
Depends: ax25-node
Conflicts: nodejs-legacy
Description: Amateur Packet Radio Node program (transitional package)
 The existing node package has been renamed to ax25-node. This transitional
 package exists to ease the upgrade path for existing users.
Original-Maintainer: Debian Hamradio Maintainers <[email protected]>

Nodejs (and thus also castnow) is working fine on my OSX though.

Update: found an explanation and workaround (fix?) for Ubuntu
http://stackoverflow.com/a/25392896/3432809 gives an explanation for node not working.

As a workaround, either do as the stackoverflow suggests and create a symlink for node -> nodejs. Another option is to edit /usr/local/lib/node_modules/castnow/index.js so that hashbang makes it run with command 'nodejs' not 'node':

#!/usr/bin/env node

to

#!/usr/bin/env nodejs

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@JonathanAaron
It's described in the README in the "Report Bugs" section howto enable the tebug output.

@adefaria
Does the solution posted by @mikkoliikanen solve your problem?

@ratson
Since at least localfiles works for you I think that your having a different issue. Can you open a new issue for your problem with a DEBUG dump?

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Why don't you just make a real package for a simple install instead of all this odd npm and github cloning. I mean why can't I simply apt-get install castnow or perhaps a simple tar -xzf castnow.tar.gz, even if I need to do a configure/make install/etc...

Last thing I need to do is to start debugging somebody else's buggy and convoluted "install" process. I have a chromecast. It works well for me for quite some time. I was just hoping that this thing would cast Hulu videos (anybody know if it does?) so that I can be at my couch and on my cell phone using this castnow thing to pause and play, etc. instead of having to get up and walk over to my dining room, unlock my desktop and hit pause. To solve that problem is really not worth me having to install all kinds of other crap like npm and node and shit like that. Hell I'm not THAT lazy - I can get up, walk to the dinning room (about 3 steps really) and click the mouse to pause the video. I would like to be able to do it from my phone though...

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@adefaria castnow is still under development. If you want something more robust, better wait until v1.0.
NPM is a widely used package manager in the JS world. And since castnow is build with JS I see no reason why not to use NPM :) You shouldn't need to clone the repo (unless you want to create a Pull Request or something).

castnow does not support Hulu and will not work on your phone. It's a commandline utility.

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I see no reason to invent yet another package installer just because a
different programming language was used!

What I read was that castnow supports playing a video from a URL. Hulu's
videos have URL's. So why wouldn't it work?

And as for my phone, dude I can simply ssh into my desktop. Then I have
a terminal session on my phone controlling castnow running on my desktop.

On 01/10/2015 09:45 AM, Simon Kusterer wrote:

@adefaria https://github.com/adefaria castnow is still under
development. If you want something more robust, better wait until v1.0.
NPM is a widely used package manager in the JS world. And since
castnow is build with JS I see no reason why not to use NPM :) You
shouldn't need to clone the repo (unless you want to create a Pull
Request or something).

castnow does not support Hulu and will not work on your phone. It's a
commandline utility.

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Andrew DeFaria
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If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.

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@adefaria
Since you don't seem be interested anymore that this issue here gets solved I'll close it for now.

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You're right - I'm not interested in debugging your code - I'm just interested in using it. Learn the difference.

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;-)

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This still exists btw.

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