Firestick at Hotel

Streaming Devices / Hardware
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So I’m staying in a hotel and has Philips tv
Tried plugging google chromecast tv to hdmi but nothing happens. Any suggestions please

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ask the front desk. If you are using their wifi it might have a captive portal.

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You may also have to change the HDMI input with the original TV remote. Most hotels go with generic basic remotes that don’t allow many changes or accessing higher functions like sound and picture quality. I don’t use chromecast but once you can access it I imagine you’ll also have to log into the network.

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& if all that fails…u can maybe use your phone as a hot-spot & connect the stik to its network…
& use 5g data instead of wi-fi

Just a thought

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Same issues with me with firestick, even after connecting to tv you still have to connect to hotel/room wifi and to do that is nearly impossible as most allow only 1 device connected, tried smart things app with samsung mirroring but its very very laggyy, Im in U.K. and one of the most famous/fastest providers - virgin got my aroung 5mb down speed which is …
So only thing before next hotel stay download on netflix app or on hdd…
Let me know if u found better way, thx

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Thanks everyone
Trying to jailbreak watching troypoint and get stuck at 1pointnwe it says Android tv os build
Says click 7 times
Also can’t install downloader
Wifi connected help please

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The 7 clicks sounds like the method for gaining access to developer options. Now is the problem that you can’t find Downloader or you can’t install it? In order to find it on Chromecast, if I remember correctly, you need to search for it, but you can’t simply search for Downloader, you need to search for “Downloader app” .

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Thx miki yes I was trying to install downloader not the app, also yes that’s what the 7 clicks were for but didn’t do anything
I’m going to try to look for the app this time
Ck in a few

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Ya you have to add the app after downloader, then you should see it and be able to install it. Please let us know.

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It worked jailbroken in 5 minutes! Thank you

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Way to go @Splashking1 . Congratulations.

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I’m going to try and hook up my Onn to a hotel tv for a few days if I can get to the HDMI port and change to it. If the wifi doesn’t work, I will use my phone data and hopefully not forget to put on my VPN.

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I take my Cube everywhere I go and never had any issues. Life changing stuff! Most decent hotels are wired up for people to bring their own devices these days.

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I struggled with the regular Onn and the Pro in hotel rooms. It wants to connect to the captive portal webpage to log in but it would tell me that I didn’t have an app to do that about 6 times or so before it finally opened the page. Then, when the page finally opened, it was a struggle to toggle to the right button. It finally worked fine but it wasn’t as easy as when I used a Firestick in the past.

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I connected it up, entered the wifi information and was off to the races. Not worried about using a VPN here either
Oh even easier there was an hdmi cable connected to a dvd so i unplugged that and used it. I didn’t even have to struggle to put my cable in.

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Travel Routers solve the captive portal issue. Check out the GLi models. You only need 100-300Mbps. $30 bucks.

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Even the Beryl AX is only $80 on Amazon. Probably overkill for some people, but does have Wifi 6.

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I cheaped-out and got the 300M. Tried and true printer server. Never fails.
GLi makes everything simple but has it limit at the low end.
open WRT scripts are so numerous…takes a PHD to get thru the list.
I loan it and a FS out to family traveling…
Beryl rocks. Got a bud running his corner store using that for his P.O.S. register and office printer. I swear he has not cut power to it in 3 years. Solid unit.

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