Although the Google TV streamer makes me my eyes, I'm not just satisfied with my chromecast performance with Google TV, but that seems to me The best device that Google has launched throughout its history: It's good, beautiful and inexpensive … or it was, before discouraging it. Without being perfect, he fulfills his mission for basic televisions such as mine or for others who have a few years and do it at a price.
But as I progressed, Chromecast is not perfect. And in fact, in some scenarios, I am not missing and I miss things. But of course, it is so small and it has only one port, so it can be done … Finally no. Because it has a USB and which has a USB, has a treasure.
Chromecast with a USB memory level
Yeah, Chromecast with Google TV has only one USB-C portBut this is not a problem: I have a hub for my laptop which has known a thousand wonders and it actually made me a value to buy another just to place it next to the television.
Because in addition to supplying it (both with a cable and an adapter and connect it to the television itself), it also serves Increase storage And that if you have many installed applications, it comes in luxury. And it is not only a question of lacking storage: it is that if you have enough space, you can have problems with the updates and even with the performance.
Because honestly, Chromecast with Google TV has only 8 GB and that doesn't. With the adapter, there is also easy Take advantage of a USB memory or SD card We have at home (my hub admits the two devices).
The idea is as follows: the electrical power of Chromecast goes to the center, which in turn incorporated the USB memory and the chromect. In addition, Chromecast connects to television. You have an image of the assembly on these lines, which in this case an image called more than a thousand words.
To use: If you have a memory with USB-CYou save all of this and connect it directly. It was not my case.
It remains only to light up and nothing else. After checking that the chromecast lights up and works perfectly, we enter Google TV and when we touch on our profile photo, we go to the settings and follow the following route: 'System'>'Storage'. There we will see the data from memory and the options of 'Expel'Y'Delete and format as storage of the device '.
To be able to use USB memory as an extension of chromecast storage, it must be empty, it is therefore enough to format (obviously, if there is something that interests you to keep, better to record it before). But it is also possible to unify Chromecast and memory storage to operate as a whole: the key is in 'Migrate data to this storage'.
In my case, what interested me was to increase the storage capacity of the chromecast, but you can also Use memory to add multimedia contentFor which the assembly is enough to search for the file that interests us via an explorer of files (in my case, file controller).
Bonus track: The connection of chromecast to a hub also leaves an additional function which seems essential to me, that of ethernet use to connect to the Internet, which comes from the cinema if Wi-Fi is bad or if we need a more fluid experience.
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