I can confirm TechHive's speculative piece – Slingbox support IS coming to Chromecast. Soon. http://t.co/XL8k7pIOTy
— Dave Zatz (@davezatz) March 27, 2014
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I can confirm TechHive's speculative piece – Slingbox support IS coming to Chromecast. Soon. http://t.co/XL8k7pIOTy
— Dave Zatz (@davezatz) March 27, 2014
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What exactly would be a use case for this?
Instead of watching your Slingbox feed on a mobile device or computer screen, you’d get the video on your television via a $35 dongle. Granted, you’d need both a supported app/smartphone and the Chromecast itself – and trying to do this in say a hotel might be tricky. It’s conceptually and technically similar to what Sling has done with the Roku app and Airplay to Apple TV.
I thought the hotel Wi-Fi thing for Chromecast was a no-go because of the login page bypass requirement at every hotel I’ve ever been to. Obviously there are ways/hacks to get around this–plug your laptop into wired, share its wireless with the Chromecast, travel with a portable Wi-Fi thing, but most of these rely on a wired Ethernet connection being provided which isn’t a given in many hotels. I suppose you could fake the mac address of the Chromecast from your laptop or something. Maybe I need to look into this…
As someone who spent something like 100 nights on the road in 2007 and again 2008, I’d say our best bet is still a travel router. But, as you say, Ethernet may be on the way out. I’m sure there are other ways to slice and dice it. (Man, I also loved my Cradlepoint 3G routers…)
You guys hit exactly on what my only beef is with the Chromecast – hotel support! There has to be a way they can figure this thing out.
These days you don’t see ethernet in rooms much so travel routers aren’t going to do it I don’t think.
Would absolutely love to use Sling thru this thing in a hotel room.
“You guys hit exactly on what my only beef is with the Chromecast – hotel support!”
Indeed. I’d buy a Chromecast if only it’d deliver room service via drone.
Another chime in for the difficulty of hotel WiFi with its pointless multilevel log-in and every changing passwords.
Just found this news. I still use my Slingcatcher. So this is great news!
On a side note, when I do travel, my LTE service on my phone is normally better than the hotel Wifi. So I tether away.
Awesome! Its genuinely remarkable article,
I have got much clear idea regarding from this post.
For a frequent hotel user, one can have his phone used as a hot spot and configure the chromecast to use it.
Obviously, you better have an unlimited data plan…