I only have MAC products. I've successfully used my 2 original Chromecasts for a couple of years. I've recommended them to tons of people and given them as gifts. Now I see that you no longer support OSX and I can no longer cast from Chrome on my computer. Fine, I'll use my phone.EXCEPT that's not working either. My wireless sees the device, but my TV says no signal. Yes, I've been through the reset factory data-unplug and replug the power-reboot the phone process until I'm sick of it. Do I just need to throw the 2 Chromecasts away and switch to Apple TV? I can do that; I'm just disappointed that I may have to. Carmine Clemente 5/11/2015, 12:41 น. After resetting the modem & router, resetting the Chromecast to factory defaults, going back to an old iphone 4s and turning it completely off while the Chromecast rebooted, then powering back up, I was able to set the 2 Chromecasts up again. They are now recognized by iphone 4s, iphone 6, and Macbook Pro. Mind you, I had to do this sequence more than once. The first few times, I used my iphone 6 with IOS 9.1 and got the No Signal error after choosing the Chromecast in my wireless settings on the phone. I have no idea what finally made it work. It would be helpful to know what caused the devices to stop being recognized in the first place. That might make the fix faster and easier if it happens again. I was very close to Freecycling the Chromecasts and purchasing a different casting device. Yann Van Uffelen 8/11/2015, 8:20 น. I bought this because it clearly said on the box and advertising you could stream to a laptop. Now your saying I have to have a current smartphone as well to use it? Google Toolbar is only available for Internet Explorer. Try Chrome, Google's fast modern browser, to get all of the features of Toolbar and more. Here are some fun BACK 2 SCHOOL gadgets/tools– all filled with fun– AND LEARNING. KiiPix™ from TOMY— is a portable, affordable and easy-to-use instant film printer, requiring no special apps and no batteries, making it a “snap” (pun totally intended!) to capture, print and share. It won't work on older Android. There is no mention that you need anything extra to set it up in order to cast to a laptop in any of the advertising or on the package. This amounts to misleading advertising, and I'll be taking it up with the office of fair trade here in Australia to see what they think. Tina Spellman, 6:06 น. Thanks James. That is more than disappointing as we just 'invested' in putting these in all of our offices and creative suites and we use a lot of macs. But I am guessing Google and Chrome won't care since they already got my money. It seems short sighted to me as I don't know any mac users who would switch to a crappy PC format for this feature when they can just buy another device that does support Mac. All this will do is alienate a whole market share with no real upside. I guess it's time to go shopping. It's a good device. David Giancarli, 13:59 น. '.but are still able to cast from your Mac OX/Chrome OS machine using the Google Cast extension in your Chrome browser.' This statement is NOT true. After setting up my chromecast and it updating itself it successfully connected to my wi-fi. There are no firewall restrictions preventing casting. HOWEVER in my UP TO DATE Google Chrome browser running on the latest Mac OSX it cannot find the device. Good-Bye google i thought you were different but looks like I'm going 100% Apple. Jacky H, 17:04 น. This doesn't work at all. Google completely screwed over every Mac user. Long story short, I needed to switch wifi connections, the chromecast app (which worked wonderfully when I set it up the first time) didn't work, the chromecast extension for chrome doesn't connect at all, so I assumed it might be an update issue. So I factory reset and now it's fucked beyond repair. I'm told there's a chromecast app for IOS, but I can't download it because I have an iPod 4 which can't go up to IOS 7, which is what chromecast needs for whatever dumb reason. So now I'm sitting here upset that google killed functionality and I'm sitting with a $35 paperweight. Unless this is fixed soon, I'm going to tell friends/family/strangers to avoid chromecast, as functionality randomly disappears when you're using it. Paula Rogers 2/2/2016, 10:12 น. My God, what utter crap. Two hours looking at a set me up screen and a non-stop searching for cast devices logo, for something that was supposed to be plug and play.
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