If that was all you could do, the Chromecast would suck. Google’s world centres around casting stuff from your phone. My advice? Figure out the smallest number of workflows to do everything you want to do, and get rid of any extraneous apps, servers, websites etc.

Plex for Android, some kind of remote interface.

BubbleUPnP server, a crude Java based transcoding server.

Want to watch something without using your computer? There’s only a couple of “ Google Cast ready Android apps” (YouTube is the only one that works well for me), or use BubbleUPnP to access your Plex library.Īnd I haven’t even mentioned a couple more complications:.

Add Vimeo as a channel (a slightly complicated procedure to view your own uploads). There are some issues with transcoding that I don’t really understand. For some reason you have to go through, and the whole experience is a bit complicated. Movies in your Plex library? Use the Plex web interface.Movies you’ve downloaded? Use the VideoStream Chrome app to load it directly off disk.It’s great for randomly showing something funny you found on the web, though. iView or SBS? Go to the site, and use the Google Cast extension to “TabCast”.YouTube? Just go to the YouTube website in Chrome, and click the Chromecast button in the video window.That is, depending on what exactly I want to watch and how, I have to choose between 6 different workflows:

Google tv and plex