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> My concern is - can it still work with power provided by a regular USB socket on the TV? The specs claim it needs a 1 amp power supply, and most sockets can't
by tokenizerrr 11y ago
> My concern is - can it still work with power provided by a regular USB socket on the TV? The specs claim it needs a 1 amp power supply, and most sockets can't do that much.
I've used the old chromecast successfully like this. The manual also suggested to do it. One downside was that this means the chromecast can no longer turn your TV on due to lack of power. When casting to it, it will turn on my TV and switch it to the chromecast input which is quite nice.
- Yhippa 11y ago> When casting to it, it will turn on my TV and switch it to the chromecast input which is quite nice. Wait, it can do this? I had no idea. Freaking awesome.
- reportingsjr 11y agoYour TV has to support AND have the right HDMI CEC options. I had dig through the menus on my TV to turn the options on.
- piyush_soni 11y agoYes, my Samsung Smart TV supported this, and while it'd be great to do that, but I just disliked the idea of taking another long cable and make it reach my wall socket. :(