It’s not that there aren’t smart TVs in hotel rooms and other tourist accommodations, but they may not have the platform you like or it’s limited. In this sense, carrying your Google Chromecast in your suitcase can be a great idea. While connecting a Chromecast to the TV at home is a quick process and not too much of a mystery, things change if you decide to do it on a hotel TV: with these two ways you can achieve it.
Go ahead as the process can be exactly the same as at home if the hotel has wifi without any type of restriction. So probably when you sign up they give you the wifi name and password and you set it up as normal.
Keep in mind that if you had already configured in another network, you will need to reset it first. Once you’ve done that, you’ll be using the Google Home app. During the process, it will ask you for the data of the Wi-Fi network to connect to and you provide them and it is ready to start. As long as the signal strength is good, of course.
Getting unlimited, worldwide Wi-Fi is more common in vacation rentals than in hotels. In any case, it is relatively common for there are hotels whose internet access is more complex and limited, with intermediate access pages that ask you for information such as your email or your room number before entering. Here configuring the Google Chromecast requires more work, since it will not be enough to introduce Wi-Fi.
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The simplest and most reliable option for these restricted Wi-Fi is to bet on the cable, that is to say to physically connect the Google Chromecast. But of course, to be able to do that, you need access to your room’s modem or router and an Ethernet cable.
If both conditions are met, connect the supplied USB cable to the Chromecast and an Ethernet cable from the router to the power outlet and plug it in. When you do, you can open the Google Home app and go through the standard setup.
Creating an access point
If the previous point is not possible, another possible option to use a Google Chromecast in a hotel room is to create a hotspot from your Android phone or iPhone.
On an Android phone you can do this in two ways: either in the shortcuts of the Android notification panel, by making a long press on the Wi-Fi zone and, once inside, press *Wi-Fi hotspot. You can also do this by entering from the settings to the Wi-Fi menu. In both cases you will have come to the same point, that of giving it an access point name and a password.
On this page, you can enable and disable hotspot, change network name, security type, password, etc. Once you’ve configured everything to your liking, You can now connect your Chromecast as if it were a standard Wi-Fi connection and use the Google Home app to add a new network.
