Man I wish I would have seen this video 4 years ago, would have been a life saver! As someone who travels way too much for work and lives in hotels about 7 months out of the year, wanted to add one more thing. Always keep in mind if you run into roadblocks connecting to the wifi (happens to me sometimes even with a fire stick with an internet browser) the hotel should be able to give you the number for their ISP, if you call them directly they can add your device to the network manually....never had that fail when I needed it.
I feel fooled. "If you have a newer Chromecast with Google TV that's no problem". I just brought one and I am still not able to connect to the hotels wifi as I cannot fill the portal Formular.
For me, I use Realme TV Stick 4K for streaming during travel because most Malaysia hotel hide the power socket behind the TV. Realme TV Stick 4K can be power up using TV USB port, so I remove the hassle to buy longer USB-C cable or the need of power extension.
So I have one of the older chromecasts and In need to set it up through internet sharing on my laptop. Once you set it up, do you need to keep the laptop up and running to use chrome cast? Or will the connection be made automatically?
Is there any chance when installing Chromecast to the hotel tv that any personal info such as passwords will remain in the hotel set? Sorry if this is a dumb question
I have the chrome cast with Google tv and I still have problems with the web pages. Sometimes I can’t select the tabs on the web page because they don’t have a cursor. 😢
I have a google tv with the remote. And when I go to the webpage for the hotel I put the password in but when I try to accept terms and condition it doesn’t let me check the box. Any help? Anyone?
Some of the hotels we've stayed at had none of these features, so picked up a universal remote. Work's great, also instead of Roku aka Chromecast, HDMI cable from laptop to TV. Works well. Did make one small mistake one time, adjusted master volume down.
I'm in IT Security. I work for a casino with a hotel. As soon as a device is pulling an unrecognized IP it trips a security breach and has to be manually turned back on.
📌We shouldn't be having these problems in 2023. The ability to use captive portal should be standard on all devices. All routers should have hotspot ability (some budget routers still don't). All new technology goes through their messy phase and eventually standardization cleans things up.
I use a $20 travel wifi router to get around the hotel portal logins. If there is ethernet in the room, great. If not, most can pick up the wifi and rebroadcast minus the portal crap. One time I had no luck with either... place wanted real $ for internet access, and double whammy had terrible cell signal (Thanks, T-Mobile!) I found an ethernet jack in the hallway, behind a plant. Plugged into that and into power, hid the tiny router behind the plant.
Problem with Chromecast with Google TV is lack of good web browser app to log into hotel WiFi. This is why Amazon Firestick is superior. I’ve done the PC as hotspot and mobile WiFI router solutions and 1 out of 5 times I run into troubleshooting for 30 min. Save yourself time and just get a Firestick and just deal with its inferior interface.
I don't have a CC and nor do I stream it to the TV. I'm only watching this video because I work at a call center where people remotely call us in all the time and they need their Chromecasts connected to the Wi-Fi. Since I have never used or worked with a Chromecast before I worked at my job, I was trained on how to help people connect them but since I have never heard of it before, I'm still struggling to help them even when I read the instructions to help them so that's why I watched this video. We manage the Wi-Fi for IHG hotels across the US and people need to be connected to the IHG Wi-Fi and then they would see a welcome screen and stream now and when they click stream now, there's a black screen and we usually try our best to troubleshoot that the best we can. If I get a streaming platform, I'm going to get a Roku instead because it's less hassle and less troubleshooting than a Chromecast and it has more streaming options than Chromecast which makes it even better.
Making the chromecast horizontal and then put the huge chungus there is awkward it feels like its going to dangle and tear the HDMI port or cable towards the bottom. Why isnt it right angled or longer so you can deposit it on the TV table? 2:57
Yeah that ties up your phones. You can't carry it around without disconnecting the phone. I always prefer a dedicated streaming device and the Chromecast is the cheapest
@@enadegheeghaghe6369 If I'm streaming, why do I need to use it for anything else? I don't watch TV while talking on the phone or browsing the Internet. I watch.
@@MrSatyre1 what if you want to make some calls while someone else is streaming a movie? I know it's shocking but sometimes you might not be the only person watching. In any case a dedicated streaming device beats using a phone. The Ui is better, the remotes are far more convenient than getting up to go fiddle with your phone anytime you want to change something. Plus Chromecast is so small it can fit in your pocket anyway.. That's just my opinion anyway.
I used to do this with my spare (older chromecast that I had upgraded from) and over the last few years have left 2 chromecasts in Air BnBs.. how many have you left behind? 😂 Maybe the remote helps remind you to grab the device when you're leaving. My CC w/ Google TV is in the house only
Hey gang. I have a Chromecast I brought from home. My house is flooded, so I’m going to be stuck in this hotel for months, and the Chromecast is my only source of sanity. The Marriott hotel has a device hooked to the back of the TV, but it has HDMI inputs. I think I basically have to operate through the barrier or whatever the hell this thing is. It’ll let me plug in my Chromecast and it shows in the Google Home app, but none of my apps will cast to it. I’m kind of pulling out what little hair I have left. I contacted Google via chat, and they allege that it’s the HDMI ports, but I’ve cast to Chromecasts not even plugged into HDMI ports. They’re both on the hotel’s free network. Am I just SOL here?
I had a legacy chromecast but found that having to factory reset it every time I went to a new hotel in order to get it to bind to a new SSID was a bit much. For a while I was using one of those wifi hub routers like the FileHub Plus for consistent SSID, but they also failed for captive portal. Since then I have switched to the Roku Streaming Stick 4k. Its power demands are minimal that even a 0.5A usb port still powers it, its very small and lightweight taking up nearly no room in the technology backpack, and most importantly the way it handles captive portal is fantastic. When you jump on the hotel WIFI, it detects there is a a captive portal and gives you a popup to select that you are at a hotel or dorm room. After confirming a hotel network, it then turns itself into a WIFI Access Point with its unique SSID that you then join with your smartphone. As you join it with your smartphone, the roku stick pushes the captive portal data to your smartphone and you sign in on your smartphone just like you normally would. Afterward the roku mac address is allowed onto the internet and you can put your phone on any wifi network you want, its not required to stay connected. With all the complexity of windows10 mobile hotspot or trying to use your data plan mobile hotspot, that amounts to even more gear to have to haul on non-business travel that I prefer to avoid if I can. While the Roku interface isn't my favorite of the various streaming OS' compared to FireTV or AppleTV, it does offer a few features such as dealing with captive portals that make it ideal for travel and at the end of the day it still gets the job done. Additionally if you are running an air BnB, or the like, Roku also has the ability to set these up in a mode where the tenant can input their credentials on the app, and it will flush all those settings when their stay concludes.
I bought a chromecast with google tv since I could never connect to internet in hotels with captive internet portals. However now that I have the new chromecast with google tv I face the exact same issue . I thought I would “zip through it” but no the chromecast does not connect to the internet because the hotel site never pops up for me to accept terms . Any guidance on how to proceed or there is really no way around this ?
I kind of bought the new Chromecast because he said you’ll zip right through that. I tried it this morning at the hotel I’m staying at and it didn’t prompt the hotel login page 🙁
I found that many hotels (especially higher end) block the ports needed by Google TV and it's clients. I'm not willing to pay extra for "VPN capable" Internet or put my credentials in their TV, so I've taken to just using my laptop and HDMI out to watch all the content from web pages which works without fail. I got a cheap Bluetooth remote for pause/skip/etc, and it works everywhere. The only glitch is RU-vid TV won't let me watch network channels from home or in-progress recordings, since it wants me to watch the local channels. Once the program has finished, I can watch it from library without issue.
Any idea on how to deal with using my Chromecast on a hotel TV without my remote? I’m on vacation, brought my chromecast but I forgot the remote. And I can’t seem to use my iPhone as a remote (using google home or similar) because when I plug my chromecast into the tv, the chromecast isn’t connected to Wi-Fi yet so it can’t show itself. I’d prefer to not “hard reset” my chromecast cause then I’d lose the apps I’ve set up on it. THANKS 🙏🏼
I bought a chromecast just because of this video and it doesn’t connect to a Hilton WiFi. Also you cannot cast from your device on hotel WiFi. I had an android and apple both and neither works correctly.
I have the new Chromecast with Google TV and I dont just zip through the wifi connection like he says. I have to tick a box and enter a password to connect. When I use the google home app it just wont connect. What is meant to happen and it wont find a Hotspot on my Phone either. Can anyone help me please
Bear in mind if the hotel has wifi where they just give you the SSID and password, presumably anyone else now on that network can also access your Chromecast via the cast function. I prefer to bring a little travel router. You can set it up to bridge the existing wifi but with a new network, so it functions as something of a firewall. Even better, if your hotel room still has an ethernet port, you can plug it in straight and set up your own network. This is a BRILLIANT way of getting around higher-end hotels that like to charge per connection. I did it once at a hotel room in Vegas and had a full setup running, including a Chromecast, and all of it was on the same network name as it always is.
I have found a lot of hotels swap out the TV remote with the most basic universal remote that controls their little cable converter box mounted on the wall behind the tv. It has been difficult to get those TV to switch input, so I just started using the same input the hotel tv service was using. Honestly I don't know why they block access to other inputs. Its not like anyone actually buys their PPV crap. People would just as soon stream it on their 6in smartphone display than pay for PPV. However, sometimes if you need to keep the kids occupied for a few hours, netflix, or their Nintendo switch with a small docking module does the trick. You should see how long they can be occupied with a Raspberry Pi4 loaded with RetroPi and a bunch of old arcade gaming ROMs.
Hotel internet isolating devices has always been the issue with Chromecast. I didn't know about the laptop hotspot option though. That should make this much easier! Just for clarification though, do you also need to connect your phone to your computer's wifi hotspot? I'm assuming it's needed so that your phone and chromecast can see eachother.
This did not help me at all. Not a bit. 🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁 I can not use my iPhone as a hotspot because I do not have that much surf on it. And of course I do not have a travel router on me just in case. I am the only one that have been in that situation? It seems so, because he did not mention this. 🙁
My new ChromeCast has google tv. It still won’t connect to the hotel’s wifi which of course requires that I bypass the internet portal. You kinda made it sound like it’s possible with the newer ChromeCast. Could you tell me how?
Right? I specifically picked up a Chromecast + Google TV off that line, only to find there's no apparent difference. None that I can tell with the lack of explanation in the video.
Man that really annoys me. So much effort to reach behind the TV and to insert the Chromecast to the HDMI and USB ports. There's also some hotels that have a USB and HDMI bay but they're not actually wired, it's ridiculous.
Thank you so much for the video I wasn't 100% sure if I can use my windows mini PC has a wifi hotspot nobody would answer the on Amazon other RU-vid channel you're the first one to mention it repeating the hotel internet to a wifi.
This is why I miss when phones had IR blasters. I have come across so many hotel TVs with hidden Input buttons (and just gross remotes I really don't want to touch)
IR Blasters are still a standard feature on lots of Chinese phones, like Xiaomi and Redmi phones. It's a great feature to replace those dinky IR remotes that come with RGB lighting too :)
only issue i had with hotels' tv based on my past experience is that the tv usually wall mounted and it is quite hard to move it to get to the hdmi ports at the back of the tv. won't risk dropping the tv just to get it connected to my pc/chromecast..
How does CC with google tv bypass stupid hotel captive portals? You still need to use this lame google home interface. Yes, if you plug in the ethernet directly to CC it will work easily, but what if you only have wifi? How does CC with google TV make our lives easier in bypassing captive portals? Thanks.
I've traveled with a Fire Stick for years to setup anywhere I went. Since Chromecast with Google TV, I've used that instead. Only ever have an issue when if there is no way to reach the HDMI port or switch the input.
the issue I have with using a phone hotspot is the fact that during the set up, after connecting the chromecast it also asks you to connect the phone to the same network, which is possible as the phone is acting as the hotspot.
I agree, it's a really weird problem. When I connect my Chromecast to my iPhone's hotspot, they should be considered to be in the same network, since the iPhone is basically creating a NAT between the two devices. But Chromecast still complains that they are not on the same network.
Last resort if you can't find any way to change to HDMI manually: turn off, unplug all but power and the HDMI you want connected, and turn on. Some newer TVs look for an active port on startup.
So I want to add some hacks to this list. Some LG TVs do not have any buttons on the TV at all and the remote is a generic remote with no input buttons. In that case I use my flipper zero loaded with LG infrared codes to change the input. Now the other option is to have a small universal remote with you and simply load LG TV codes and try the input option on that remote. Another thing if you want to use your mobile hotspot without using the cellular service simply connect the phone to the hotel wifi and then enable your mobile hotspot and now just like your computer your Google TV is using the hotel wifi through your phone.
This is my first time commenting on your channel, this was was very useful. When I saw thiss about two weeks ago, I ordered the 4k version of the device. Today while waiting form my wife to come home from, before heading out for our weekend away, I finally setup my new chromecas and packed for our hotel. Lucky for us, it was simple to attac, the included cable wasjust long enough to reach the nearest outlet. I've nerthout of bringing my firesticks on the road before, but this video hot me to the it We didn't even try the hotel Wi-Fias I have a large bucket of 5G data, wennected to my Pixel 6A for the Android devices without a blip!😅
@Mr Denison I have found a new open box x95j 75 inch for $999 and a new open box a80j 65 inch for $1100 which would you choose if there both in perfect condition
My best advice for internet access is actually to take a travel router. It means your phone and chromecast are always connected to your router settings, and all you have to do is connect the ethernet port of the router to the room.
How is the device when travelling between hotels? Do you need to re-setup the device everytime? Or you setup first time and then just plug and play in the succeeding times?
@@digitaltrends Thanks, you saved my life ! 😊Well, maybe not but this is very useful, thank you so much. About powering Chromecast, if your cable is too short you can actually plug it in the TV itself, works perfectly.
