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Any Chromecast users ?
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 3:33 am
by bigkidoz
Bought one just for playing with and read that there are some hacks available, hopefully it arrived today or at worst tomorrow so i can have a play.
If its no good i'll buy an RPi but it should be useful even un hacked.
Re: Any Chromecast users ?
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 4:06 am
by xboxprince
Why would you want to hack that.
Re: Any Chromecast users ?
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 4:34 am
by bigkidoz
xboxprince wrote:Why would you want to hack that.
Why the hell not ?
Re: Any Chromecast users ?
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 4:48 am
by Xphazer
I'm planning on getting one too soon, just for the sake of it.
Re: Any Chromecast users ?
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 6:13 am
by bigkidoz
Wife says it was just delivered so now i can have a play
Re: Any Chromecast users ?
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 2:42 pm
by xboxprince
bigkidoz wrote:xboxprince wrote:Why would you want to hack that.
Why the hell not ?
Well because all the device does is allow you to connect other devices to it and desplay the connected devices actions on you screen.
Re: Any Chromecast users ?
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 7:33 pm
by Xphazer
Re: Any Chromecast users ?
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 10:36 pm
by xboxprince
I'll shut up now
Re: Any Chromecast users ?
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 10:59 pm
by hawsey
xboxprince wrote:Why would you want to hack that.
I mainly only buy stuff that can be hacked
Once hacked I am ashamed to say a lot of my stuff is not as interesting,
Plex is working on this now too so just for that would be good for £25 quidish.
Not as good a deal as the 10 pound now tv box mind but I think I will still get one for tinkering purposes.....
Re: Any Chromecast users ?
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 12:06 am
by Xphazer
Just had a look a bit deeper. No Chromecast for me for now...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthr ... ?t=2621784
Re: Any Chromecast users ?
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 9:34 am
by Geeba
Ordered one yesterday..... £30.
Worth a shot for that I recon, no root access is a blow but not the end of the world, if I dont like it I usually end up ether flogging or passing on to my Mum!
Re: Any Chromecast users ?
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 11:38 am
by bigkidoz
Mines unrootable for now at least, i'm sure someone will find another exploit soon enough.
Re: Any Chromecast users ?
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 2:41 pm
by Geeba
Hmmmm I'm finding this a pretty pointless device to be honest... I was bored within 30 minutes...
I guess if you want to show Youtube or Netflix then you would benefit.. other than that... not really much you can do with it.
The picture isnt that great.. apparently even 1080p content is coded down to 720p....
For me a dust gathering device
Re: Any Chromecast users ?
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2014 6:55 am
by bigkidoz
Geeba wrote:Hmmmm I'm finding this a pretty pointless device to be honest... I was bored within 30 minutes...
I guess if you want to show Youtube or Netflix then you would benefit.. other than that... not really much you can do with it.
The picture isnt that great.. apparently even 1080p content is coded down to 720p....
For me a dust gathering device
For the same price an RPi is better value which is what i'll be buying , my daughter loves it though streaming youtube vids from from her android tablet to the tv.
Re: Any Chromecast users ?
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 7:53 am
by restless
I got one just for sake of it too.
Re: Any Chromecast users ?
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 8:38 pm
by Dan Dar3
I'm thinking to get one and "cast" content from a XBMC4Xbox through the remote app - if possible to send movie art, subtitles and things like that from an XBMC4Box that would be great, this way it will do mostly the "media manager" or "media storage" part, and have the Chromecast play HD videos and such, or scenarios where you have a single XBMC4Xbox machine in the house and multiple TVs with their own Chromecast...
Re: Any Chromecast users ?
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2014 3:34 am
by bigkidoz
Dan Dar3 wrote:I'm thinking to get one and "cast" content from a XBMC4Xbox through the remote app - if possible to send movie art, subtitles and things like that from an XBMC4Box that would be great, this way it will do mostly the "media manager" or "media storage" part, and have the Chromecast play HD videos and such, or scenarios where you have a single XBMC4Xbox machine in the house and multiple TVs with their own Chromecast...
That would be good and at least make it more usable than they are .
Re: Any Chromecast users ?
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 6:43 am
by Xphazer
Re: Any Chromecast users ?
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 9:24 am
by bigkidoz
Bugger, now i need to buy a teensy board.
Re: Any Chromecast users ?
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 1:41 pm
by restless