Chromecast: Our top tips and tricks for getting the most out of it

Chromecast is a relatively powerful tool that allows a lot of things. Version 2, which we present to you the test here, is a nice improvement that brings more power to this little dongle. Today we bring you our best tips and tricks for using it.

Turn on your TV with your smartphone

Here is a very practical but little-known option, the possibility of turning on your television with your smartphone. On most TVs one HDMI-CEC port allows a device connected through this socket to open this socket. This is especially true for the Xbox One, which turns the TV on by itself when turned on.

It’s also the same as chromecast, because it’s also connected to HDMI. To do this, leave your little dongle plugged in after configuring it. Start streaming to Chromecast with your TV turned off and Your TV will turn on by itselfIsn’t it magic?

Use your Chromecast without a WiFi network while traveling

You find yourself in a hotel room, but configuring Wifi with Chromecast is difficult or nonexistent. In this case, the easiest way is to make your smartphone an Internet access point. We explained how to do it in this little tutorial. In a nutshell, go to Settings, then tethering and click on Portable Wi-Fi hotspot. Now you can use your Chromecast anywhere as long as you have a smartphone and a TV.

Find all compatible apps at a glance

It’s quite contradictory, but even if Chromecast makes our lives easier, finding compatible apps can be really painful. Luckily Google thought of us and our nerves, just go to this address and you will have all native compatible apps, so you no longer need to test an app to see if it’s compatible.

Decrease flow quality to increase fluidity

You should know that you can stream your screen from a computer as we have explained to you here, but you can also manage the quality of the stream to achieve better fluency. Basically this setting is automatic, but if it requires too much power from the computer or the Wifi is not good enough, you can lower the quality.

Publish a local file from a Chrome tab

In the context of casting a tab from Chrome on Chromecast though, you can also play a local file this way. To do this, open a tab and drag the file to the search bar, If Chrome can read this file, you can cast it to your TV. For example, you can do this for a presentation, drag the PDF file into Chrome and start broadcasting.

• Also read: What is Chromecast and how it works

Reset your Chromecast

Last but not least, last tip, but not least, if you have a problem with your Chromecast, know that you can reset it. There are two solutions for this, either you do it from the Google Cast application in the settings, or you do it manually by pressing the button. 25 seconds on the Chromecast button.

Here we hope these little tips and tricks to make better use of your Chromecast are helpful to you, if you have any other suggestions feel free to share them in the comments. Also be sure to check out our top 10 Chromecast apps.