Google Television

Rossi's idol · Post by **Rossi's idol** » Sun Jun 07, 2015 8:47 am

Has anyone tried to access television material in PT using a Google Chromecast web stream thingy? My daughter recently bought one for her bedroom, £30, plugs in to the ring main and a HDMI socket on the tele. You select a programme on an app. on your 'phone then the two 'speak' to each other and the 'phone streams what you select to the Google thing. Any experience of this? I'm not sure myself whether it'll work there as I can't usually access the BBC IPlayer even though I seem to have reasonable internet connection.
Thanks.

Rossi's idol.

ANDY · Post by **ANDY** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 1:40 pm

Yes Google chromecast, works great here, you just need to use Google crome as your browser, or download the app to your phone or tablet, best results are obtained with a good internet speed.

Aldo · Post by **Aldo** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 2:42 pm

can you get sky, netflix etc on this gadget in PT ?

ANDY · Post by **ANDY** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 3:25 pm

Sky no, as they block all HDMI screening, not sure about Netflix but I think you can, you may need a VPN to hide your location.
Www.strongvpn.com is good only 40$ a year.

Rossi's idol · Post by **Rossi's idol** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 2:00 pm

Thanks for the update Andy. Just put of interest, what channels can you watch without issue?

ANDY · Post by **ANDY** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 2:38 pm

anything thats transmitted through the net, check out www.filmon.com

Rossi's idol · Post by **Rossi's idol** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 7:11 pm

Excuse my ignorance, do you access filmon via the Google app then?

ANDY · Post by **ANDY** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 7:35 pm

Yes through the google chrome app.

Rossi's idol · Post by **Rossi's idol** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 7:47 am

Champion, thank you.

Aldo · Post by **Aldo** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 1:22 pm

Can any one help
I am an IT novice! We purchased the chrome cast and strong VPN
All set up but only You tube will play on our TV in Portugal. Trued Film on etc no joy.
The VPN works so we can get sky, netflix etc on ipad but not onto TV nor via Chromecast - can anyone help

steve · Post by **steve** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 1:39 pm

I think you will find that Google Chromecast needs to on the same internet connection as the Ipad. If you are using a VPN on the I pad it won't be. You can get Filmon without a VPN and project it on to the TV via the app. I have done this but the picture quality is much poorer than going via an Apple TV box.

Rossi's idol · Post by **Rossi's idol** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 9:08 am

Pardon my ignorance, do you have to have a VPN to make this work in Portugal, or can you simply connect to your router/ smartphone and you're set up?

Aldo · Post by **Aldo** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 9:59 am

The VPN is great as I can now watch netflix and sky on my iPad, just wish I knew how to connect my ipad to TV screen then hey presto!

e-richard · Post by **e-richard** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 11:43 am

Aldo wrote:just wish I knew how to connect my ipad to TV screen then hey presto!

You need an Apple TV box which plugs into your TV's HDMI socket; then using your home WiFi system you can access the Apple TV box from your iPad.

Mike Burton · Post by **Mike Burton** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 6:23 pm

Sky is very clever, it will not let you watch football etc by using an Apple TV and HDMI connection

We'd use our Apple TV and I pad using Film On, the app is free and you can get hundreds of channels as well as the basic English channels

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