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I used to love my Chromecast. It was one of those "it just works" pieces of technology. Unfortunately, after it auto-updated, it now has a bug where it will disconnect from WiFi after 30 minutes. Anyone know of a fix or has seen this behaviour before?
I see this behavoir and I'm betting its an overheating problem. It only happens to me while streaming video
I love my Chromecast and use it extensively. This is what Miracast should have been, something that "just worked" and seamlessly interconnected devices. But instead Miracast is yet another classic example of "death of committee" where tons of big media and hardware companies wanted to get their features and DRM in, and as a direct result we now have dozens of completely incompatible Miracast devices. I think this tab…
As someone who works day-in and day-out with Miracast devices, you're a little bit off. The problem isn't really with features and DRM leading to incompatibility. The HDCP portion of Miracast is pretty straightforward and isn't often the problem. The problem (as seen with the charts) is manufacturers that are sorta-kinda-using Miracast but not really. For example the Samsung AllShare devices were never advertised as…
People said exactly the same thing about Miracast in 2013 and 2012. We still aren't anywhere with it. It is more broken than it is working, it is a giant mess.
> The Chromecast comparison is really a bad one - yes you can tabcast
You can fullscreen cast.
> but really it is designed around a "send this URL to play" experience which is much much easier to accomplish than real-time streaming.
Except for the tab casting and full screen casting..?
> For the real-time streaming, you only have a single sink device to worry about and it only works on desktops (for now).
You're strangely contradicting yourself. First you acknowledge that tab casting is a thing,then you pretend that tab casting isn't something it does and use that as justification for Miracast's superiority? Very confusing.
Also "only have a single sink device" is total gibberish. Even assuming the word "sync" it is still nonsense, both Miracast and Chromecast only support a single device on either end (sender and receiver).
PS - Chromecast works with other devices. It isn't just desktops. People already made apps that could send a full Android "desktop" to the Chromecast back in the early days before Google killed it with an update. I'm sure it will return with the release of this SDK.
> Your surface area is much smaller, so of course interop is going to be better.
It is an identical surface area between the two.
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Unfortunately the Moto G still a phone. It can still make emergency (911) calls without a SIM card. There's no way to disable that functionality, even in the various Android distros.
You can disable the dialer and lock screen (or use a lock screen replacement from the Play Store).
Disabling the dialer does not disable emergency dialing as far as I could tell.
Oh man, here comes CrunchyRoll and all the other anime streaming websites. Netflix's & Amazon's anime collection is about to be put to shame. Also, I'd really like it if the developers behind KeyholeTV[1] would get on board. Maybe I should write it... 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KeyHoleTV
I made my local video transcoder server and browser to play any kind of video on the Chromecast, it was working real good, now I can publish it (was not allowed before)
Chromecast is missing one thing, imho: a controller for my kids. I'm not giving my kids the Nexus 7 every time they want to watch something on the TV screen. The Chromecast suddenly goes from a $35 to a $235 device. Instead I have a uHost android-stick that uses an accelerometer-based airmouse... it's not good, but it works and cost me $50. I keep waiting for Google to complete the Nexus line with a bare-bones 4" low…
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FWIW, the Moto G comes pretty close to this. A lot of the cheap Android tablets do as well.
Unfortunately the Moto G still a phone. It can still make emergency (911) calls without a SIM card. There's no way to disable that functionality, even in the various Android distros.
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Yes, the fact that Apple TV doesn't work with non-Apple devices makes it a non-starter among those who don't exclusively buy Apple products in perpetuity. So the question is Chromecast vs. other cross-platform TV solutions, like Roku. Roku does have it's own device-streaming but it only works with media on your device. I own both and use both, but lean towards the Roku more often as using the phone/tablet as a remote…
I have three Roku-powered rooms in my house. I read about Chromecast's capabilities but I cannot find how it would serve me better than Roku. My needs are: * Stream Netflix/Hulu/Amazon/HBO Go to the TV. * Stream videos off my NAS, such as DVD rips, home movies, etc. (For this I use Plex.) * Occasionally, stream movies and pictures I took with my phone to the TV. * Very occasionally, stream live events, such as the Ne…
I love my Chromecast and use it extensively. This is what Miracast should have been, something that "just worked" and seamlessly interconnected devices. But instead Miracast is yet another classic example of "death of committee" where tons of big media and hardware companies wanted to get their features and DRM in, and as a direct result we now have dozens of completely incompatible Miracast devices. I think this tab…
I agree it's a shame that a standard like Miracast has incompatible implementations. However, creating another protocol just makes that situation even worse.