Today it is possible to turn any television into a smart TV thanks to devices like Google’s Chromecast. A device that allows you to enjoy all kinds of services through a remote control, as well as send content from your mobile to the monitor. However, not all apps support the latter feature, although there is a way to make this possible.
Third-party applications help make our smartphone an all-terrain terminal capable of anything and this time was not going to be any different. There is an app that will allow you the luxury of sharing on the TV screen both videos recorded with your mobile and live broadcasts of news, sports, series… Also, in the event that your phone is not compatible, there is an alternative method that we will also teach you in this post.
A simple app to control your Chromecast
To get the most out of your Chromecast, all you need is the Web Video Cast application that you can find in the Google Play Store. A very complete program that allows you to watch all kinds of videos from web pages on your television , be they movies, broadcasts or IPTV content, as well as send a video within the local files of your device.
Web Video Caster is not only compatible with Google’s Chromecast , but also with Amazon Fire TV and a wide list of streaming devices. In this way, it guarantees its use for the vast majority of users, since it also supports the following types of content:
- Live broadcasts.
- Movies and series.
- MP4 videos.
- Sports and news.
- IPTV.
- Photos and audio files.
To start sharing content from your smartphone to the Chromecast, you need to find the video you want to broadcast from the Internet or your file gallery. Once located, try to reproduce it within the web. Finally, connect your mobile to the Google device to start emitting the signal.
Before finishing with this application, it is important to know that there is a premium version that grants access to a series of functions , such as the following: ad-free browsing, saving content to favorites, viewing the history of recent videos, shortcuts from the home screen home, most visited websites…
A simpler method
There’s no need to download the app to be able to share videos or other content from your phone to the Chromecast on your TV. Mainly, because your Android terminal has a property that is used to cast the screen of our smartphone on the television. This particularity is found within the Google Home app that you originally used to configure the streaming device. The steps to follow for this are:
- Open the Google Home app on your mobile.
- If you’ve previously set up your Chromecast, it should appear in the menu. Hold down on the device.
- Select “Send” and then “Send screen”.
However, there are applications that will not appear despite being viewed on your phone, since the device understands it as sensitive content. In addition, it is possible that there is some delay in both video and audio, so it is not an ideal solution if you are looking to watch a movie or series, although we do not want to download an additional application.