Apologies if this has already been covered but a quick search turned up nothing. I recently rooted and was wondering if there was any resource to describe the ins and outs of the chromecast shell. Specifically I wanted to know if there is a way to define a custom start up script. For the moment I would just like to auto update the PATH env variable to include my own bin directory on /data with some of the more useful busybox commands symlinked and maybe add some cooler stuff later. I've done something similar in dd-wrt with a special nvram variable to point to a script, but I don't know if there is an equivalent here. Thanks.
[Q] Chromecast command line primer
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You can, but you would have to do the modifications with an extracted system image, re-squashfs it back up, and then flash it back to the device.
I've been writing some, gonna post it later on git if you want to see it.
mostly stuff to make it easy to start ftp, samba etc.
/mape
Seeing this you guys are making me think (always dangerous!)
Is it possible to code and inject an on device player app that could be inserted into the system (similar to Netflix) that could be triggered by another app for local playback without the need for an Internet connection?
Something like that would really increase the streaming capability for areas where Internet connection is not available.
And if the right code is found could even give local streams DHT capability if we had the ability to add those codecs to the player system.
I've been looking at system.img from 19084.001.zip
it seems it only got this then I unsquashfs it
root@debian:~/squashfs-root# ls
bin boot chrome etc lib netflix res usr
I'm I looking in the wrong file?
if you want to modify init.rc, then you need to extract the initramfs from the kernel, modify it, repackage the initramfs, compile the kernel from src (as the default one is signed, and can't be merged with a modified initramfs), and then merge the compiled kernel with the initramfs you modified.
Looks like this gonna be my "children are sleeping" project for some time .-)
Well I extracted initramfs from boot.img and mounted it with cpio. At least I'm looking at the right files. I have never compiled a kernel for this kind of devices before (only for my computer) and I having trubble to cross compile, my arm compiled programs wont run on CC.
Do you got some good pages I can read and learn this stuff from?
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You can, but you would have to do the modifications with an extracted system image, re-squashfs it back up, and then flash it back to the device.
