• catloaf@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Isn’t that what a Chromecast is? The one I have, you just connect to the wifi and it shows up as a cast target. It doesn’t do anything else.

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      3 months ago

      Yes but they discontinued them in favor of Google TV, and they also heavily nerfed the capabilities by putting Google TV apps on there. For instance I now often have to pull out the virtual remote in the YouTube app to make a pop-up go away so I can watch the YouTube video I cast.

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        3 months ago

        Try out Smarttubenext. Made watching YouTube on my chromecast with Google TV enjoyable again.

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        3 months ago

        I own multiple gens of Chromecasts from gen 1 to to CCwGTV

        I have no idea wtf you are talking about.

        I click cast, I click the device I’m casting to, it works, never had this issue on any of my devices abd all of them are set to auto update and afaik running latest versions.

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          3 months ago

          That’s fantastic for you, but a quick Google search will bring up plenty of articles and reddit threads of people bitching about this and other ways the Chromecast has been broken over the years.

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            3 months ago

            I have no idea what people are fucking up tbh.

            It’s 2 button clicks to cast stuff, I just went and sanity checked.

            The internet is full of disinformation and idiots though so I usually just assume people are the issue, when I have the same hardware and zero issues.

            I don’t think chromecasts have even gotten any kind of major change updates in ages so it’s bizarre for it to change behavior.

            I’m gonna just keep going with “people are dumb” until someone posts some concrete example (IE an actual video) of wtf their issue is.

            The chromecast is designed so simply though that I can’t imagine wtf people are fucking up.

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          3 months ago

          I have five from multiple generations, so I’m very aware. They changed this functionality on all of them. I never said they didn’t still work, and I gave a clear example of how the functionality is being nerfed.

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            3 months ago

            They haven’t changed the functionality on mine as far as I’ve noticed. It’s still a cheap dongle that people can use to quickly share media to the screen. Is that not what you wanted?

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              3 months ago

              When they released Android TV they implemented the full apps into Chromecast so it went from just a video playing client to an extremely underpowered streaming stick, without a Google TV remote a lot of the players were broken and because it’s an out of production out of support device you are stuck with whatever crippled functionality they leave us. I tried to set one up for my wife a couple of weeks ago and she couldn’t cast certain YouTube videos to it because it was prompting her to sign-in but the sign-in functionality has been broken for two years now. If your device has somehow avoided any updates you have a gem; that thing would fetch a handsome sum on eBay.

              Is it still a cheap dongle that people can use to quickly share media to the screen? Yes, that’s why I have five. I’d like them to support and keep making them. I’d like them to work as seamlessly as they did 2012-2015ish.