This is a small DIAL server that emulates Chromecast-like devices, and implements the YouTube app. It proxies YouTube commands from mobile app to Kodi YouTube plugin.

Turn on JSON-RPC (TCP transport) by enabling "Allow remote control from applications on other systems" in "Settings > Service > Control" panel.

I'm going to assume you're running Linux for this installation guide, preferably Debian Jessie (or newer when their time comes). Debian before Jessie contains too old versions of certain packages.

First, make sure you have the needed dependencies installed:

• golang 1.8+

These can be installed in one go under Debian Jessie (with jessie-backports):

$ sudo apt-get install golang-1.8

If you haven't already set up a Go workspace, create one now. Some people like to set it to their home directory, but you can also set it to a separate directory. In any case, set the environment variable $GOROOT to this path:

$ mkdir golang
$ cd golang
$ export GOPATH="`pwd`"

Then get the required packages and compile:

$ go get -u github.com/sargo/kodicast

To run the server, run the executable bin/kodicast relative to your Go workspace. Any Android phone or iPhone with YouTube app on the same network should recognize the server and it should be possible to play videos on Kodi. The Chrome extension doesn't yet work.

$ bin/kodicast

Big part of Kodicast is taken from Plaincast released on BSD license by Ayke van Laethem. It uses also a great librarty kodirpc by Peter Fern.

I would like to thank the creators of leapcast. Leapcast is a Chromecast emulator, which was essential in the process of reverse-engineering the YouTube protocol and better understanding the DIAL protocol.