Fuck my prior preparation day with the Chromecast with Google TV before the hotel checking…

I don’t travel too often so my Chromecast needed some tweaking (AKA updating system and apps etc), I like to take it as a travel companion and found out this shitty frame around the TV.

It is the first time it happened to me, I can see this being annoying for frequent travelers.

  • 1st@kbin.social
    303·
    1 year ago

    Chromecast doesn’t work on most hotels WiFi anyway. At least it won’t work if they have a page to sign into the WiFi after connecting. Pretty much have to use a HDMI cable in most cases

      • nocaptchaforme@lemm.eeEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        100% recommend this. Setting it in repeater mode with the captive portal is great. I have a Slate and a Brume.

        • kratoz29@lemm.eeOPEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          Slate still holds up so nicely, but if it ever breaks I’ll get another one from glinet!

      • Swarfega@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I should upgrade my crappy TP-Link TL-WR702N actually.

        Any idea why the Slate AX router costs more than the Beryl AX, which has better specs?

        Edit

        I’ve done a bit of research and the Beryl is twice as fast over 5GHz. It’s slightly smaller and lighter. It has one less Ethernet port, but the WAN is capable of 2.5Gb. The Slate has an SD card slot for file sharing. It also has a quad-core CPU, so is faster when connecting to a VPN (550Mbps over 300Mbps of the Beryl).

        I actually prefer the black colour of the Slate over the light blue Beryl, but with the slower VPN speed and lack of an SD, both of which are not really a problem for me, the Beryl looks like it’s the one I should go for.

        If anyone in the UK is interested, you can make quite a saving in the UK from Amazon. Normal price is £119 but if you tick the £20 off and 16% off voucher you end up paying £79.96. A saving of £43.53.

      • Maslo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Some projectors are about this size too, and are surprisingly powerful for their size. But then the new issue is finding a blank section of wall

    • dan@upvote.auEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      The newer Chromecasts work fine since you can just log in using the remote.

      For older Chromecasts, you can set up a wifi hotspot on your phone. At least on my Samsung Galaxy S22, you can share any wifi network that way. It’s also a good way to bypass restrictions that only allow one device to connect to the wifi network, as they’ll only see your phone on the network.

    • Alex@lemmy.mlEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      Google TV works because you can click through with the controller. But getting it plugged in is the first challenge 😃

    • Spellinbee@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I ran into the same issue with the chromecast. So when I travel I always bring a roku, because that will let you access the login page.

    • some_guy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      58·
      1 year ago

      You can call the hotel’s IT and get your MAC address whitelisted to avoid all that captive portal bullshit. Once you have one device whitelisted you can just have others spoof that MAC if you are able.

      • Psythik@lemm.eeEnglish
        151·
        1 year ago

        I have yet to call a hotel IT department that was competent enough to even know what a MAC address is. Last time I called one, the lady on the phone didn’t know the difference between megabytes and megabits.

        • scottywh@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13·
          1 year ago

          What hotels are you guys staying in that give guests the ability to contact their IT department at all?

          That sounds like insanity to me.

        • some_guy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          1 year ago

          I have yet to stay at a hotel that wasn’t able to get my streamer onto the network without a login page. 🤷

      • schmidtster@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        Doubtful many would have access to that without calling a different company.

        And doing that would be a security risk regardless, if they just randomly whitelist devices… holy fucking shit, no wonder everything is getting “hacked”.