5 Chromecast Tv Features You're Not Taking Advantage Of (including This Smart Home Trick)

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Since 2014, Google's Chromecast has been an affordable intends for helping viewers move their older exemplary TVs into smart TVs, allowing them to watercourse contented from their phones, tablets, and computers to a bigger screen. 

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Alas, nan era of nan Chromecast has travel to an end. Google is replacing it pinch nan Google TV Streamer, promising a faster processor, Thread and Matter integration, and nan expertise to summarize TV episodes aliases full seasons, among different caller tricks.

But that doesn't mean nan Chromecast is obsolete yet; successful fact, Google has promised to proceed providing package and information updates for now. I recovered a number of cool things anyone tin do pinch their trusty Chromecast that astir users are unaware of.

1. Cast your favourite tunes to your TV

Numerous euphony streaming platforms, specified arsenic Spotify, SiriusXM, Amazon Music, and Pandora, tin watercourse euphony straight to your Chromecast device. Why not get bigger sound from your TV speakers or, amended yet, nan soundbar you person hooked up to it?

Ensure that your instrumentality is connected nan aforesaid Wi-Fi web arsenic nan Chromecast, and find nan More Devices fastener aliases Chromecast icon successful your app. Select your Chromecast from nan options that appear, and commencement streaming. When you want to disconnect, usage nan Google Home app to extremity streaming from your euphony app.

2. Check retired Chromecast Preview

The Chromecast Preview Program is simply a user-opt-in transmission that updates your Google instrumentality pinch nan latest firmware type earlier it's made broadly available. Members of nan programme tin get early entree to features and improvements connected their devices; successful exchange, they thief Google find and hole bugs earlier features are released for broader consumption.

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You tin subordinate nan Preview Program done nan Google Home app by going to settings (Device Information > Preview Program > Join Program). After that, you'll person emails astir caller features. You tin opt retired and take Leave Program anytime.

3. Personalize preferences for your denizens

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Is your partner a Victorian-era play lover, while you for illustration high-action shoot-em-ups? Don't want your kids to person entree to your ain watchlist? No problem. Each personification successful your family tin person their unsocial floor plan done nan Google TV level connected your Chromecast, keeping their customized algorithms (and contented recommendations) to themselves.

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From nan Google TV location screen, prime Add Account. Sign successful to nan Google relationship you want to add, reply nan floor plan setup questions, and adhd Disney+, Hulu, aliases immoderate different streaming services that spectator regularly visits.

4. Enjoy YouTube videos successful a continuous feed

Normally, to watch YouTube via a Chromecast, you person to prime each video 1 astatine a time. Because it owns YouTube, Google has made it easy to create an infinite playlist of videos.

From nan YouTube app, prime Cast and take your Chromecast device. Picking immoderate YouTube video allows you to play it instantly aliases adhd it to your queue. You tin adhd up to a 100 videos (including from YouTube Music) and fto them play. You tin easy edit this database by previewing a database of upcoming selections.

5. Livestream from your smart location information devices 

As agelong arsenic they're each linked to nan aforesaid Wi-Fi network, you tin usage your Chromecast to entree nan unrecorded provender from different Google Devices, specified arsenic nan Google Nest Cam aliases Nest Doorbell. Open nan Google Home app connected your smartphone aliases tablet, past pat connected nan camera you want to view. Hit nan Cast icon successful nan top-right area of nan screen, and prime your Chromecast instrumentality from nan list.

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Once those are linked, you tin besides usage nan Chromecast Voice Remote (what I telephone nan "Hey Google" feature)  to petition which camera you'd for illustration to show connected your TV.

Even though Google has discontinued manufacturing nan Chromecast, it remains a reliable and inexpensive measurement to entree oodles of content. The caller Google TV Streamer offers each nan capabilities of a Chromecast, of course, but they're presently going for astir $100. Until you prime up 1 of those, you tin make nan astir of your clip pinch nan original. 

These are conscionable a fewer of nan ways you tin maximize nan imaginable of your Chromecast, and I'll uncover much successful early updates.