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This is not always practical. Either you lay your HDMI cable across the living room, or you have to find a spot for your laptop near the television (not always
by HenryKissinger 7y ago
This is not always practical. Either you lay your HDMI cable across the living room, or you have to find a spot for your laptop near the television (not always possible), and then you have to get up and walk to the laptop to change anything.
- susijdjdjxa 7y agoThe Chromecast is a small stick that hangs off the hdmi port. It’s not really plausible for it to not fit in a room layout.
- opan 7y agoYour last point about walking up to the laptop isn't exactly true. I've gotten creative with HTPCs doing stuff over ssh. mpv (video player) can be controlled from the shell it's launched from. I just keep a tmux session going and then I can play YouTube videos or stuff off my file server. sshfs for file server access is nice and simple. I use various other computers or my phone to connect and run commands. This also makes it easy for other people to pull up stuff. It runs on a guest account, so I don't mind telling them the password. They can search for a video on their own machine and just paste it into the shell. Since all the normal controls work, you can easily adjust volume, take screenshots, etc. mpv also works for viewing images, so it's similarly good for showing the room a picture, local or on the web. The only pain point is when someone really wants to pull up a website in a browser. I've used a bluetooth keyboard adapter, a steam controller, the "xmouse" android app... Things work best when I can handle them via mpv or other terminal stuff, though.