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PC Video on TV. Hopper Feature?

AlaJoe

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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 said:
Are these smart TV's?
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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.
 
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ekilgus said:
Wasn't that the Home Media option that was eliminated recently?
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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.
 
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...).
 
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Cold Irons said:
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...).
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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.
 
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ekilgus said:
Wasn't that the Home Media option that was eliminated recently?
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Home Media is still alive and well on Wally. (For now?)

dishdude said:
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...
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...yet?
 
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