Google Chromecast is ready watch all the mobile content on television, but it has an important requirement: a WiFi network to connect to. Your home offline or move your Google Chromecast to another location? No problem, you can fix it with the help of your smartphone.
Few devices offer better service for less money than the ones offered by Google Chromecast. This is a young player HDMI can convert any TV into a Smart TV controlled from a mobile device Android, iPhone or computer. Watch Netflix on the big screen, install phone screen, send recorded videos to TV and much more: Chromecast can be reduced in many ways. And it doesn't matter if you have WiFi in your house (or when you're using it) because you can do a simple trick: set up a wireless access point from your mobile phone.
Register your Google Chromecast with mobile WiFi
Starting a Google Chromecast for internet connection is important, this is the last. Therefore, the most commonly used device is to register a device on the home or work network, depending on the television set. The entire process was created from the Google Home app, an app available for Android and iOS. And the home WiFi network settings can be changed by the phone network when sets the entry point
The process of using Google Chromecast without WiFi at home or work is as follows:
- Download the Google Home app on the second phone, which will work as a & # 39; configurator & # 39;.
- Connect the Google Chromecast to free HDMI on the TV and enable it with a USB charging cable (or connect it to a free USB TV or charger).
- Enter your mobile settings and look for the & # 39; Portable WiFi zone & # 39; options. This function can be renamed & # 39; WiFi access point & # 39; or similar.
- Set up a password connection and activate an access point: from that moment you will be sharing your rating information. Don't worry, setting up Google's Chromecast consumes less data.
- Connect from the second phone to the WiFi network you created on your mobile phone. Make sure that Google Play does not use the opportunity to update apps and that this mobile tries to update itself using WiFi.
- Open the Google Home app and click on the & # 39; + & # 39; at the top of the screen in the left area.
- Click on & # 39; Configure device & # 39; Then click & # 39; Install new devices & # 39 ;, choose your house and go to & # 39; Next & # 39 ;.
- Google Chromecast should appear to be available to you. Click on it and check the code that will appear on the TV.
- Select the WiFi you have created on your mobile phone, enter the password if necessary and you will have the Google Chromecast configured.
- Disconnect the second phone from the WiFi network you have created so there are no data usage issues.
From now on you can use your Google Chromecast by simply activating the WiFi access point on your mobile phone: an icon with a Chromecast icon (on the top right of apps like YouTube or Netflix) to click there and see content on TV. Also, you can share your mobile screen to open the Google Home app, select Chromecast and click the & # 39; Submit My Screen & # 39;
The possibilities are huge: you can watch Netflix on TV, the Disney + project, post almost any video from the Internet or watch YouTube, for example. Of course, you must have the most important factor in mind:
All Internet videos (streaming) you submit to Google Chromecast will use your rating data
Tips and tricks for using google Chromecast without WiFi
A simple mobile phone is enough and more than enough to satisfy the need for WiFi, you've already seen it: once you open the portal, Chromecast will connect you to everything possible. Since communication is only provided through your phone, when Google Chromecast uses the Internet it will pull your data; with the risk that your average will run out in hours: streaming consumes a large amount of MB.
You can use your Chromecast and mobile phone without problems and recommend that you follow the following tips:
- Restrict content from Netflix, YouTube, Disney + and the like that you share with Chromecast since HDMI will hijack your Internet connection. Our advice is to always check your operator's usage.
- Sharing your mobile screen does not consume the Internet unless you are watching content broadcast on the phone. You can add photos to your gallery, videos and movies that you have stored in storage: all of which do not use MB.
- You can use apps such as Web Video Caster to send content locally stored on your phone to Chromecast. Remember that this does not consume the Internet.
- Google Photos can share everything in your gallery folder and your Chromecast. This does not waste cellular data.
- Limit data access to the access point WiFi attachment options, in your phone's setting. You can also rate it from data plans, in mobile network settings.