In that line, is there an open standards, no Google required answer to the Chromecast?
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Probably not that helpful, but i do know of a few articles installing linux on a Chromecast
How can i get it to work in these conditions?
Borrow an android phone from some friend/neighbor for an hour...
I don't think you can. On the other hand, if you register a Google account, use a secondary user on your phone to login, install the app and activate the Chromecast, I think you can subsequently use it without the Google account. Delete the secondary user once you're done with the setup. You wouldn't have given Google any useful data and you'd have cost them some.
Oh that's smart. Would it essentially be just a miracast dongle thing?
Miracast is a separate, older protocol from what Chromecast uses.
Imagine how much more convenient the world would be if the Chromecast protocol was open source
Less ewaste too. Less profits for google though...
The newer version is: https://w3c.github.io/openscreenprotocol/
I used to be on that team at Google and when I left they were working on an open source implementation of it.
That's awesome if they're implementing it.
My Google home and Chromecast at the moment are necessary evils because when I sit down to watch something I don't want to have to worry about whether it'll work with x or y, whether I'm getting good bitrate etc
Would however be really cool if I was able to cast my screen, cast YouTube etc from my Linux laptop
Have been able to do it in the past using chrome but I already need to keep two browsers installed don't want a third
Well I don't know what OP is planning to use it as, but desktop VLC can cast to Chromecast on the LAN for example.
Mostly this.