Can Chromecast be used to display a web site or web app? All the sample sender/receivers I've seen so far show how to play videos. The docs posted so far are minimal as best, just an API reference with little explanation what any of it does. I just want to send a URL of my choosing and have that page displayed on the TV. There's no user interaction required past that point. Assuming that's possible, does anyone have sample Chrome sender and receiver code for that?
I was able to modify the Github sample Project > googlecast/CastHelloText-chrome to show a web page.
receiver.html
file, I replaced the DIV
with an IFRAME
and styled it for 100% width and height.displayText()
function I changed innerHTML
to src
.chromehellotext.html
was to replace YOUR_APPLICATION_ID
with the app id created by registering the receiver.Note that some sites like Google and Yahoo will not display inside an iframe. If you really needed to do that you could skip the iframe and just set window.location.href
to the URL. That, of course, will overwrite your receiver code so the only way to change URLs would be to manually disconnect first and reload. I tried using window.open
instead but that did not work.