PC Video on TV. Hopper Feature?

[AlaJoe]

I was listening to a video on YouTube on my PC the other night. I noticed this button that said play on TV. I clicked it out of curiosity and it brought up a list of all the TVs connected to my Hopper/Joeys. I clicked Livingroom and next thing you know my video is playing on the living room TV half way across my house. Is this a Hopper Feature? I don't know any other way my TVs are connected to my network but I have never done anything to set this up. In any case it is sort of a neat feature.

 

[TheKrell]

I clicked it out of curiosity and it brought up a list of all the TVs connected to my Hopper/Joeys.

Are these smart TV's?

 

[AlaJoe]

Are these smart TV's?

Nope none of them. Only link any have to the internet is my Hopper system which I assume is it because the names listed are also the same names assigned to them in the Hopper system.

 

[ekilgus]

Wasn't that the Home Media option that was eliminated recently?

 

[AlaJoe]

Wasn't that the Home Media option that was eliminated recently?

Nope the Home media option was a app you could pull up like the Netflix app and use to watch videos that resided on a PC running a DNLA Media Server.

 

[Cold Irons]

This is just normal "casting" as far as I know. I've always been able to cast YouTube to my smart TV, my Hopper 3 (Living Room 1) or my Joey (Bedroom 1) or my Google smart speaker (not much use for a video...).

 

[dishdude]

This is just normal "casting" as far as I know. I've always been able to cast YouTube to my smart TV, my Hopper 3 (Living Room 1) or my Joey (Bedroom 1) or my Google smart speaker (not much use for a video...).

Exactly this, you're just casting to the YouTube app on the Hopper. Oddly enough, my Wally shows up as a device I can cast to but it doesn't work because there is no YT app on the Wally.

 

[ekilgus]

Nope the Home media option was a app you could pull up like the Netflix app and use to watch videos that resided on a PC running a DNLA Media Server.

Actually, for me this home media option allowed me to access my PC's hard drive and play videos.

 

[pattykay]

Wasn't that the Home Media option that was eliminated recently?

Home Media is still alive and well on Wally. (For now?)

Exactly this, you're just casting to the YouTube app on the Hopper. Oddly enough, my Wally shows up as a device I can cast to but it doesn't work because there is no YT app on the Wally...

...yet?