Settings

There are several configurations you can customize in settings.ini.

Section [logging]

logger

‘logger’ is a name of logging. You can change if you want. It is used for logging.getLogger(<name>) as a its <name>.

config

‘config’ is a filename of logging configuration. It should be ini style configuration that syntax is described in configuring logging section of python manual.

Section [network]

myaddress

‘myaddress’ is an IPv4 address to attach WiFi-P2P wifi device.

peeraddress

‘peeraddress’ is an IPv4 address to lease to source device by dhcp server.

netmask

‘netmask’ is an IPv4 netmask when leasing address.

rtsp_port

‘rtsp_port’ is a port to use for negotiation between sink and source.

rtp_port

‘rtp_port’ is a port to use displaying source image onto sink monitor.

Section [p2p]

device_name

‘device_name’ is used to display a name of receiver name on source device.

device_type

‘device_type’ is used to specify a WiFi-P2P device_type.

group_name

‘group_name’ is used to specify a WiFi-P2P Group name.

wps_mode

‘wps_mode’ is used to specify which mode for WPS configuration. pbc is for ‘Push the Button’ and pin is for static PIN used.

pin

‘pin’ for wps_mode=pin configuration.

timeout

‘timeout’ for wps_mode=pin configuration.

Section [player]

name

‘name’ of player, one of vlc or gst is accepted.

Section [gst]

decoder

‘decoder’ is a gst plugin name to decode H.264/H.265 video. omxh264dec is recommended for Raspberry Pi video chip. It is used when player name is specified as gst.

Section [wfd_parameter]

wfd_audio_codecs

It is used as a value for wfd_audio_codecs parameter when negotiation. default value is AAC 00000001 00, LPCM 00000002 00

wfd_connector_type

It is used as a value for wfd_connector_type parameter when negotiation. HDMI is 05.

Resolutions data

There is a resolutions.json file that describe Raspberry Pi video resolutions data. It is used to determine which video mode is supported in current RaPi device and monitor device.

Resolutions are retrived by tvservice command. code number is used to determine its output. mode is a WiFi Direct video mode corresponding with specified resolution.

If you want to porting picast to another device, you should create a new json file and update video.py module.