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OT Slingbox, with Chromcast

Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2015 7:59 am
by vickyg2003
Hi Alan,

This is slightly off topic, but I thought I'd ask you anyway.

I actually met somebody who was using Slingbox the other day! They were trying to project from their PC to the TV via Chromcast. Is that doable? Are there instructions somewhere?

Vicky

Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 2:44 am
by alanrichey
Unfortunately not. They need to run the Slingplayer on an iOS or Android device where Chromecast support is built in. (As long as their Slingbox is relatively new (350/500/M1), the older boxes built before Chromecast arrived do not support it. The only other solution is another third-party box such as Roku, WDTV, AppleTV, Slingcatcher...

Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 10:12 am
by vickyg2003
Thanks for the reply. At least I knew what a slingbox was, so I didn't feel quite so dumb.