N00bing through Rust

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# N00bing through Rust

### My journey through

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# Yuval Adam

- Full stack developer
- Freelance consultant
- 10+ years Pythonista
- [https://yuv.al](https://yuv.al)
- [@yuvadm](https://twitter.com/yuvadm)

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# Slinging media files over UPnP

- Reverse engineering a cheap HDMI/UPnP dongle
- [https://github.com/yuvadm/rockcast](https://github.com/yuvadm/rockcast)

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# UPnP Casting

- UPnP casting
  - Send a UPnP discovery packet over **UDP** broadcast
  - Dongle on LAN responds with some fugly **XML**
  - Serve the media file over **HTTP**
  - Send an XML request to the dongle pointing to the file
  - Send play/pause actions as neccesary
- You can implement this with several dozen lines of Python

It's on [https://github.com/yuvadm/slingr](https://github.com/yuvadm/slingr)

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# .white[Rust is **not** a high-level language]

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