![]() But today, I thought ‘I need to fix this’. Or so I thought, but I was unable to get Chromium to find my ChromeCast… I tried from time to time, and when it would not work, I would simply take my phone and stream from there. ![]() ![]() On Linux, I could not find many applications that will cast media to a UPnP renderer. Your application must be able to act as a UPnP client to allow it to find a ChromeCast and stream media to it. Now on a laptop or desktop computer, it is a bit of a different story. Such as your phone’s Netflix and Youtube apps, which allows you to watch Netflix or Youtube on a big tv-screen instead of your puny little phone screen. The BubbleUPnP app on my phone manages this with great success, and other apps will suddenly also have an extra button on-screen. However dumb, your television receives the HDMI input from the ChromeCast and will ‘just’ play back what it receives. Once connected to your Wi-Fi network, it acts as a UPnP media renderer which means you can stream audio and video to it. Many of the ‘smart’ televisions sold today have this capability, but many older televisions need a bit of help.Įnter the ChromeCast, a smart Linux-powered device with a wireless network card which connects to your television’s HDMI port. BubbleUPnP is a UPnP controller, meaning it does not necessarily play video by itself, but it is able to connect a media source (the UMS server) and a media renderer (like a television) and control the playback as a ‘ man in the middle’.įor this to work, your television must understand UPnP and be able to announce itself as such on your network, and act as a media renderer. Usually from my Android Smartphone (I have always only bought HTC phones and currently it’s a HTC 10) I connect to my movies using BubbleUPnP, a cool application for which I actually bought a license. I have a media collection at home, stored on a big disk in my server, and I have a Universal Media Server (UMS) running on my Slackware LAN server to get access to my audio and video files. Today I learnt something new, so let me tell you about that. I have a Google ChromeCast, it is an extremely convenient gadget to stream all sorts of audio and video to your television, regardless of its make or brand.
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