Is there a way to cast from my phone to a first gen chromecast without using mobile data? I thought I could do this by downloading films to my phone and then stream to cc, but it seems to throttle my tethering data.

So I’m not sure if I’m understanding the way this works: I thought it would just cast from phone to tv - but it’s using huge chunks of data for small films and my plan is limited.

Any advice on this or better ways to do this?

  • ijeff@lemdro.idMEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I haven’t used a first gen Chromecast in a long while but you should be able to hotspot to the Chromecast and use Localcast.

  • Willem@kutsuya.devEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    a chromecast is basically a Google Chrome browser on a stick, when you’re casting something, you send a url to the content to the chromecast and it loads that in its browser.

    when you want to cast something without using data, the app pretty much has to be specially designed to do so. While I’m not entirely sure, as far as I know most apps don’t (netflix / YouTube). I think the app called localcast does it, but I’m not sure.