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AlishahNovin
AlishahNovin

Reputation: 1932

Display Static WebPage on ChromeCast

I've been looking over the ChromeCast SDK, and it all seems pretty manageable.

The only unfortunate thing I've seen is that it seems it's only meant for casting video, audio or images. You can send a URL, but the URL has to be that of one of the aforementioned types.

I've written an HTML5 "dashboard" type of display for my app which updates using AJAX, and I'd love to be able to launch the dashboard via ChromeCast. This would equate to signaling ChromeCast to load an external URL that is available over the internet, and then ChromeCast would load the URL (preferably without any browser chrome).

In a nutshell, I'd like to hit the ChromeCast button, select the ChromeCast device, and then the device would load a url like "http://www.google.com" and my TV would just display the google home page.

I'm not worried about scrolling, zooming, or any interactivity... it's literally a bunch of analytics that update as needed.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 8073

Answers (1)

Zoey Mertes
Zoey Mertes

Reputation: 3144

You want a Custom Receiver. They allow you to just load in a webpage instead of using the default players.

https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/web_receiver

Upvotes: 7

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